What's on archive 2009

Talk: Brain injury depolarisations

02 Oct 2009, 13:00, Second Floor Lecture Theatre, Academic Neuroscience Centre (on Denmark Hill KCH side), Denmark Hill Campus

School / area: King's Health Partners
Department: Clinical Neuroscience
Location: Denmark Hill Campus
Location map: Denmark Hill: location
Speaker: Dr Jed Hartings
Speaker institution: University of Cincinnati

"New developments in the study of spreading depolarisations in acute brain injury".

Spontaneously occurring mass depolarisations that spread in the cerebral cortex around a focus of ischaemic or traumatic injury (“spreading depression”) in the human brain are now known to occur in a high proportion of patients with stroke or head injury, and are a major challenge to the cerebral microcirculation and the physiology of the neurovascular unit. Dr Hartings, a neurophysiologist, will present the latest experimental and clinical results, including effects of depolarisations on cerebral blood flow and first data suggesting an adverse effect on clinical outcome.

Contact name: Anthony Strong
Email: anthony.strong@kcl.ac.uk
Tel: 02032991715

 

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