Austin Health, Department of Neurology

Neuroscience Seminars

Thursday Evening 5.00pm, Seminar Room,

Neurosciences Building, Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital.

Date & Sponsor / Speaker / Title
February 23rd
Schering /

Neurology Quarterly Meeting

March 2nd
UCB-Pharma / Professor Alan Connelly, Brain Research Institute / Latest advances in diffusion and perfusion MR imaging
March 9th
Sanofi-aventis / Dr Radwa Badawy, Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy Fellow, Austin Health / Exploring the cortical mantle: syndromic differences in cortical excitability in patients with epilepsy
March 16th
Pfizer / Dr Bruce Barber, National Ageing Research Institute / The effect of music on the cognitive and functional status of people with Alzheimers Disease
March 23rd
Janssen-Cilag / Professor Sam Berkovic, Director, Epilepsy Research Centre, Austin Health / The Dummies’ Guide to gene finding in disease
March 30th
Bristol Myers Squibb / Dr Julie Bernhardt, Senior Post-doctoral fellow, National Stroke Research Institute / Very early stroke rehabilitation. A long journey towards evidence based practice

April 6th

Mayne Pharma / AMS presentations:
1. Jenny Huang
2. Matthew Choy / 1. Functional connectivity of resting state networks after language and motor tasks
2. Axonal pathology of post ischaemic stroke
April 13th /

NO MEETING

April 20th
Sanofi-Aventis / AMS presentations:
1. Anis Hamid
2. Alwyn Samuel / 1. The role of tissue plasminogen activator in the Parkinsonian substantia nigra pars compacta
2. Management of TIA in the Emergency Department
April 27th
Servier / AMS presentations:
1. Vincent Wijaya
2. Sia Pefanis: / 1. The ‘Worm Sign’ - is it real and clinically useful?
2. Sodium imaging at 3T
May 4th /

NO MEETING

Food and drinks provided from 4.45 pm. Seminars start promptly at 5.00 pm

For more information contact Dr Helen Dewey (03) 9496-2838 or