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They’ve already taught Ottawa subjects ranging from the heart to where babies come from. Now the faculty of Mini Medical School has a new frontier: The brain.
Mini Med, a popular feature at the University of Ottawa faculty of medicine, offers plain-language lectures for ordinary people given by real medical professors.
The fall and spring sessions of six lectures each will examine psychiatry and neurological disorders — anxiety, depression, Parkinson’s disease and more.
“There is a thirst for a lot of information about the human body,” said David Park, a neuroscientist and director of the U of O’s Brain and Mind Research Institute.
“People realize they need to know about the most important organ that defines who we are and how we interact without a world … all the way from movement to cognition to personality.”
The lecturers are a mix of medical doctors and neuroscience researchers.
The course will start with basics, Park says: “How do the individual cells within the brain signal to each other? What is it that they do — or we think that they might do — to regulate all the functions of the brain including things like memory and control of mood?
“How is it that we can alter brain function? The brain is not just a static structure, not just a concrete scaffold. It’s very dynamic. It keeps changing all the time, (which) we have never really appreciated until quiet recently.”
That leads to questions about possible therapy to repair damage done by injury or disease, for instance following a stroke.
“We have other venues in which we supply endless slides of data and graphs and funny-looking pictures to fellow scientists. We really want to impart our excitement to the community,” Park said.
The course is linked to Brain Health Awareness Week beginning Sept. 22.
Organized by Dr. Paul Hendry, a thoracic surgeon, the course runs from Sept. 23 to Oct. 30, mostly on Thursday evenings, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Information about registering is at www.minimed.uottawa.ca/eng.
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Mini Med, a popular feature at the University of Ottawa faculty of medicine, offers plain-language lectures for ordinary people given by real medical professors.
The fall and spring sessions of six lectures each will examine psychiatry and neurological disorders — anxiety, depression, Parkinson’s disease and more.
“There is a thirst for a lot of information about the human body,” said David Park, a neuroscientist and director of the U of O’s Brain and Mind Research Institute.
“People realize they need to know about the most important organ that defines who we are and how we interact without a world … all the way from movement to cognition to personality.”
The lecturers are a mix of medical doctors and neuroscience researchers.
The course will start with basics, Park says: “How do the individual cells within the brain signal to each other? What is it that they do — or we think that they might do — to regulate all the functions of the brain including things like memory and control of mood?
“How is it that we can alter brain function? The brain is not just a static structure, not just a concrete scaffold. It’s very dynamic. It keeps changing all the time, (which) we have never really appreciated until quiet recently.”
That leads to questions about possible therapy to repair damage done by injury or disease, for instance following a stroke.
“We have other venues in which we supply endless slides of data and graphs and funny-looking pictures to fellow scientists. We really want to impart our excitement to the community,” Park said.
The course is linked to Brain Health Awareness Week beginning Sept. 22.
Organized by Dr. Paul Hendry, a thoracic surgeon, the course runs from Sept. 23 to Oct. 30, mostly on Thursday evenings, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Information about registering is at www.minimed.uottawa.ca/eng.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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