On Monday, 11 March, Brain Week, an event that focuses on brain research and neuroscience, started. For the first time, the Faculty of Medicine and the University Hospital in Brno joined the event in cooperation.
Brain Week, as an annual event coordinated by the Czech Academy of Sciences, is taking place for the 25th time this year. And it is still growing, as evidenced by the premiere involvement of the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University and the Faculty of Medicine of the University Hospital Brno, which contribute to the awareness-raising event with a series of lectures for the general public and the more professional public.
On Monday, the events at the faculty were kicked off by Dr. Miloš Keřkovský from the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Masaryk University and the Faculty of Medicine of the Medical University of Brno, who introduced about fifty attendees to modern methods of brain tumour imaging by magnetic resonance. The seminar room of the Anatomical Institute was also full for the follow-up presentation by Dr. Marek Sova from the Neurosurgery Clinic. His lecture on the topic of awake craniotomy, or brain tumor surgery while the patient is conscious, was accompanied by several video demonstrations directly from practice.
Tuesday's programme was largely interactive. Drs. Iva Šrotová, Hana Pikulová and Magdaléna Hladíková from the neurology clinic first introduced the attendees to multiple sclerosis and its manifestations, and then let them test themselves and put themselves in the shoes of patients who suffer from this autoimmune disease affecting the central nervous system through exercises focused on memory, vision or motor skills. The three runs of the "sclerotic workshop" were then followed by doctors Pavel Fadrus and Václav Vybíhal from the neurosurgery clinic, who introduced the attendees to the work of the Neuro-Oncology Centre Brno.
Brain Week at the Faculty of Medicine continues until Sunday. There will be a pair of Wednesday lectures on speech therapy interventions in brain tumour surgery and diagnosis of memory, attention and speech in patients with low-grade gliomas of the brain and the possibilities of their rehabilitation, then a Thursday lecture on current trends in brain surgery and finally a Sunday presentation on aneurysms and vascular malformations of the brain, which will be given by Professor Martin Smrčka, Head of the Department of Neurosurgery at the Brno University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine.
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