Mass General Brain Health Initiative Inaugural Conference

April 22, 2017 

Preserving and promoting function, preventing disease, and restoring brain function after injury 

Please join us for a day-long symposium devoted to the themes of preserving and promoting brain function, preserving brain disease, and restoring brain function after injury. Organized by Jonathan Rosand, MD, MsC, Co-Director of the Institute for Brain Health, Chief of the Division of Neurocritical Care, and Medical Director of the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit, Rudy Tanzi, PhD, Co-Director of the Institute for Brain Health, Vice Chair of Neurology (Research) at MGH and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit and Greg Fricchione, MD, Associate Chief of Psychiatry, Director of the Division of Psychiatry and Medicine, and Director of Benson Henry Institute, the conference will include speakers from across the clinical neuroscience disciplines, both junior and established investigators, who are focusing on how to define, preserve and enhance brain health. Participants can expect to learn about new ways to consider caring for our patients and their family caregivers from the perspective of enhancing their potential through brain health. Topics will include sensitive periods in brain development and across the lifespan, the brain as a system, laboratory models for studying brain health, brain health promotion and successful brain aging, primary prevention of brain disease, monitoring and improving brain health, management of stress and strengthening of resilience; enhancing the brain health of care-givers, social networks and brain health from survivors of concussions. While all the presenters will be experts in their fields, the content of presentations will engage both health-care professionals, individuals from related scientific disciplines and those without specific training who are interested in learning more about how a focus on brain health can make a difference in clinical care and research.

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