BRC Research Day 2025
Thursday, January 30th, 8:30-5:30
Prince George Hotel, 1725 Market Street, Halifax
With Special Guest
Dr Lee Goldstein, University of Boston
“Concussion, Traumatic Brain Injury,
and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy:
Lessons from the Battlefield, Ball Field, and Lab Bench”
Lee E Goldstein, MD, PhD, Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease & CTE Research Centers, Boston University School of Medicine and College of Engineering, Boston, MA 02118 USA.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of deaths and disability around the world. Repetitive TBIs, including those classified as mild (mTBI), are linked to cognitive deficits, neuropsychiatric sequelae, and neurodegenerative diseases. The latter include chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a devastating, slowly progressive tau protein neurodegenerative disease linked to repetitive head impacts in contact sport athletes and blast exposure in military combat veterans. This talk will review TBI and CTE brain pathologies as well as experimental evidence that establish key mechanisms by which traumatic exposures trigger acute neurotrauma and chronic sequelae such as CTE. These effects will be differentiated from concussion, a neurological syndrome with a distinct pathophysiology, clinical course, and long-term consequences. This talk will cover new insights into the mechanisms that underpin acute and chronic effects of neurotrauma as well as translational pathways leading to new diagnostics, therapeutics, and preventive measures for TBI and its aftermath.
-
Agenda
January 30th
8:30 - 5:30
Prince George Hotel -
Public Talk
with Dr. Lee Goldstein,
Jan 29th @ 6:30pm
QEII Royal Bank Theatre -
Posters
A list of poster presentations
RSVP
If you would like to join us on Thursday January 30th 2025 for the Brain Repair Centre’s Research Day, please rsvp below so that we can cater accordingly.
Call for Abstracts
Fill out the form below by December 18th 2024
to be considered.