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Thought, sensation, movement, memory and more. These are the province of the brain, the ultimate information processing system. Exercise your brain. Learn how these mere three pounds of pink-gray matter govern your very existence. How its basic unit, the neuron, sends signals faster than a speeding bullet train. How the bundle of nerves that is your spinal cord transmits these electrical-turned-chemical impulses to and from the brain. How their totality, the central nervous system, functions. And how disease results when it fails to function. Follow neuroscientists and neurologists, geneticists and infectious disease specialists, as they explore the brain’s terrain. Hear them discuss diseases from Alzheimer’s to ALS and encephalitis to Parkinson’s, and describe promising avenues of research, from gene therapy to tissue regeneration. Scientists from the Wadsworth Center, the Department of Health’s public health and research laboratory, are your guides on this neuro-journey. Join them for six evenings of brain matters. Information: (518) 474-6196 |
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