The multi-professional targeted approach of neurorehabilitation can enhance recovery of functional deficits beyond spontaneous recovery and consequently improve quality of life: Specifically tailored therapeutic interventions address very specific information processes in the brain, re-train skills and thereby improve performance and abilities step by step. As a consequence of training, centres within the brain responsible for these functions become effectively re-actived, functional re-organisation of the brain occurs and ensures long-term benefits of training therapy.
The non-invasive brain stimulation techniques of repetitive or patterned transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) can focally influence the excitability of specific brain areas and might promote these functional adaptations in concert with and potentially beyond training therapy. rTMS holds much promise as a potential therapeutic intervention in a wide range of neurological conditions. However, many questions need to be addressed before a more widespread use in clinical practise can be recommended. The symposium on brain stimulation and brain recovery will shed light on these issues.
State-of-the-art knowledge about rTMS effects from animal experiments to clinical trials in conditions such as stroke, Parkinson disease and depression will be presented by senior researchers in the field from all around the world coming from various neuroscience and medical fields. This concentrated multi-disciplinary in depth approach on brain stimulation with rTMS and recovery will facilitate our understanding of mechanisms, effects, and therapeutic potentials of rTMS, and will promote future research from bench to bed side. The results of the symposium will timely be made available with a special issue of the journal Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.
Information on participating / attending:
Please register for the conference at the following
URL: www.wiko-greifswald.de/anmeldung
A participation fee of 120 € is charged. Please transfer your participation fee to the address given in the application form within 10 days after registration.
Date:
09/02/2010 17:00 - 09/04/2010 14:00
Registration deadline:
08/20/2010
Event venue:
Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald
Martin-Luther-Straße 14
17489 Greifswald
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, Students
Email address:
Relevance:
regional
Subject areas:
Medicine
Types of events:
Entry:
07/16/2010
Sender/author:
Jonas Frost
Department:
Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event31965
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