REMINDER - TOMORROW...

Everyone is invited!

*Manitoba Neuroscience Network 2015/2016 Seminar & Visiting Speaker Series*

DATE/TIME: Friday, September 25th, 2015 9:00 a.m.

LOCATION: PX236/238 PsycHealth Bldg., Bannatyne Campus

*MARC DEL BIGIO, MD, PhD, FRCPC Professor - Department of Pathology, Professor - Department of Human Anatomy & Cell Sciences, College of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences,University of Manitoba; Canada Research Chair in Developmental Neuropathology

*TOPIC: Pharmacologic Therapy for Hydrocephalus - Past and Future

Learning objectives: * Understand the pathogenesis of brain damage caused by hydrocephalus * Understand how different rationale drug interventions have so far failed to make a difference and what new approaches are being explored.

Biosketch: MD 1982, PhD 1987, FRCPC (Neuropathology) 1993. Dr. Del Bigio is clinical & experimental neuropathologist who has been studying hydrocephalus since 1984. His research interests also include brain damage following premature birth and brain damage due to substance abuse (e.g. alcohol, toluene).

Our Partners: -Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience -Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders, St. Boniface Hospital Research -Neuroscience Research Program, Health Sciences Centre/University of Manitoba

Kelly Jorundson Winnipeg Chapter Society for Neuroscience R4046 - 351 Tache Avenue Winnipeg, MB R2H 2A6

Tel: 204.235.3939 Fax: 204.237.4092 Email: kjorund@sbrc.ca OR kjorund@yahoo.ca

Website: www.sfn-manitoba.ca