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March 21, 2024
Community tunes in to learn about ‘The Craving Brain: Food and Drugs’ during Brain School
Nearly 200 people packed into the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC during Brain Awareness Week activities in March for exhibits, tours, talks, brain-healthy food and programming around brain science and its role in helping people lead healthier lives.
Another 140 alumni and friends from 22 states registered to participate virtually to view the Brain School panel discussion “The Craving Brain: Food and Drugs” and learn more about research taking place in Roanoke.
Brain School at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute is Virginia Tech’s official recognition of the global Brain Awareness Week, held every year in March.
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Date: Mar 20, 2024
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March 29, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Karyn Esser, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Physiology and Aging, University of Florida College of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Exercise Medicine Research
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April 2, 4 to 5 p.m. | Renesa Tarannum and Emma Leslie | Spring Research in Progress Seminar Series
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: Evidence Accumulation Drives Perceptual Experience , home
April 3, 2024, 11 a.m. | Nathan Faivre, Ph.D., Professor, CNRS Scientist, Laboratory of Psychology and NeuroCognitionGrenoble Alpes University, France | Special Seminar | Sponsored by the Center for Human Neuroscience Research
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Home ItemThe Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations: What Can Be Done? , home
April 4, 2024, 5:30 p.m. (Reception at 5 p.m.) | Zulfiqar Bhutta, Ph.D., Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children, Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Nutritional Sciences and Public Health, University of Toronto | Maury Strauss Distinguished Public Lecture
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Home ItemIn Person Lecture: Pharmacogenetics Applied to the Treatment of Psychiatric Illness , home
April 5, 2024, 1 p.m. | David Oslin, M.D., Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | Timothy A. Johnson Medical Scholar Lecture Series
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Home ItemIn Person Seminar: The Meaning of Dopamine , home
April 5, 2024, 11:00 a.m. | Henry Yin, Ph.D., Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University School of Medicine | Co-Sponsored by the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Center for Neurobiology Research
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