Monday, March 4, 2002
5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Lecture Hall D1.502
UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
This program will explore the topic of nerve regeneration.
Speakers
Proteins That Wire the Brain & Spinal Cord
Mark Henkemeyer, Ph.D.
Professor Center for Dev. Bio. & Kent Waldrep Ctr. for Basic Research on Nerve Growth & Regeneration
Tissue Engineering for Nervous System Regeneration
Kevin Nelson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering @ UT Arlington & UT Southwestern Medical Center
A light meal will be served before the evening's program. A certificate of completion will be provided for purposes of professional development credit. Please check with your school district to determine if credit will be accepted for this event.
Related Links and Articles
1) MEDLINEplus: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spinalcordinjuries.html: Welcome to MEDLINEplus, a gold mine of up-to-date, quality health care information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. MEDLINEplus is for anyone with a medical question. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate, current, medical information. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MEDLINEplus endorse any company or product.
2) THE SECRET LIFE OF THE BRAIN, a David Grubin Production, reveals the fascinating processes involved in brain development across a lifetime. The five-part series, which will premiere nationally on PBS in winter 2002, informs viewers of exciting new information in the brain sciences, introduces the foremost researchers in the field, and utilizes dynamic visual imagery and compelling human stories to help a general audience understand otherwise difficult scientific concepts.: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/
3) The Human Central Nervous System: Graphics and Definitions http://gened.emc.maricopa.edu/bio/bio181/BIOBK/BioBookNERV.html http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/morris2/chapter2/medialib/summary/4.html
4) Neuroscience for Kids: Explore the Brain & Spinal Cord: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/introb.html
5) Kent Waldrep National Paralysis Foundation: http://www.spinalvictory.org/
6) National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke : http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
7) Nogo in nerve regeneration: http://www.nature.com/nature/fow/000127.html
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