Brain Awareness Week 2018
BAW@Ukraine 2018 Program
Monday, March 12
Public lectures
"Anxiety: biology vs sociology" Prof. O. Cheban (Bogomolets National Medical University)
"Vaccination and Brain" Dr. F. Lapii (Shupyk National Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education)
Kyiv City Hall, Khreshchatyk street, 36, 17:30
Tuesday- Thursday, March 13-15
NeuroCinemaClub
March 13 - The Theory of Everything (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)
March 14 - Rain Man (Autism)
March 15 - The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Stroke)
Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Bogomoletz street 4, 19:00
Friday, March 16
Lecture "Cortical Plasticity Following Sensory Loss and Restoration"
Prof Amir Amedi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Bogomoletz street 4, 12:00
Saturday, March 16
Science Days at BIPH - workshops for schoolchildren
11:00-14:00 Public lectures
How memory works (Dr. Oleksii Boldyriev)
Schizophrenia (Taras Vereschak)
Cannabis: pros and contra (Prof. Viktor Dosenko)
Music and Brain (Nataliia Shtefan)
How to keep your brain healthy and wealthy (Prof Nana Voitenko)
14:00-16:00 Demonstrations
Brain microscopy
Jellyfish gene helps to heal brain diseases
Test your pain sensitivity
Brain and behavior
Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Bogomoletz street 4
Saturday, March 16
Ukrainian Brain Bee - preliminary test (on site)
Organizers and partners:
Ukrainian Society for Neuroscience (http://usn.org.ua)
M-Gate (http://www.m-gate.org)
Science Days (http://dni-nauky.in.ua/)
My Science (http://my.science.ua/)
Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology (http://biph.kiev.ua)
Kyiv Academic University (http://kau.org.ua)
SfN Kiev Chapter (http://sfn.in.ua/)
DANA Foundation (http://www.dana.org/)
FENS (http://www.fens.org)