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Meeting Program

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Day 1: Mechanisms of White Matter Injury.
Wednesday Sept. 24th

8:30 - 9:30
Welcome to Krakow
Greg Stanisz (University of Toronto, Canada),
Wladyslaw Weglarz (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Barbara Blicharska (Jagellonian University, Poland)
Invited Session WHITE MATTER INJURY - BIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
9:00 - 9:45 Mechanisms of White Matter Injury
Peter K Stys (University of Calgary, Canada)
9:45 - 10:30 White Matter Diseases -Same Target Different Pathogenesis
Mark van Buchem (Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands)
10:30 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:35 Animal Model of WM Disease - Advantages & Problems
Douglas H. Smith (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
11:35 - 12:00 Summary of the morning session.
LUNCH
13:20 - 14:00 Validation: Imaging vs Histopathology
Jeroen Geurts (VU Medical Center,Netherlands)
14:00 - 14:20 Coffee Break
14:20 - 16:00 Proffered oral session:
WM injury characterization - biology - imaging modalities other then MRI, 6 talks
16:00 - 17:30 Poster Session
17:30 - 18:30 Keynote Address: Neurophysiology and morality
Prof Jerzy Vetulani (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

Last Updated January 14, 2008