CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Following the opening of MIT's Brain and Cognitive Science Complex (BCS) last December, researchers and faculty at the world's largest neuroscience research center will showcase recent innovations and developing technologies at the 2006 MIT Life Sciences Conference: Challenges and Opportunities in Neuroscience, scheduled for March 14-15.
Designed for senior researchers, managers and corporate strategists from the life sciences and healthcare industries, the 2006 MIT Life Sciences Conference will focus on brain disorders at both ends of the lifespan: developmental brain disorders, such as autism, and degenerative brain disorders, such as stroke, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
"The day and a half conference agenda will provide a glimpse of the technologies available at MIT for what is clearly the next great frontier of biotechnology -- brain diseases and disorders," said Mriganka Sur, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience and head of MIT's department of brain and cognitive sciences. Speakers will share how they are constructing a mechanistic understanding of why these disorder happen, and what work is being done to discover new targets for potential drugs and therapies.
Scheduled presentations include: "Imaging the Brain: Basis and Treatment of Development Disorders," "Emotional Memory: Effects of Aging and Alzheimer's Disease," "Genes That Change Your Mind," "From Fragments to Objects: Mechanisms of Visual Integration and Their Dysfunction," "Functional Specificity in the Brain: People, Places & Things," "Alzheimer's Disease - A Unifying Hypothesis," "Basal Ganglia and Neurological Disorders," "Genetically-Based Strategies for Therapeutic Intervention in Huntington's Disease," "Robotics for Neuro-Rehabilitation," "Therapeutic Implications of the mGluR Theory of Fragile X," "Brain Development and Its Importance in Neurological Dysfunction," and "Toward Molecular Imaging of Neural Circuit Dynamics."
More information on the conference, including complete agenda and abstracts, can be found at http://ilp-www.mit.edu/events/LifeSciences2006/.
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