Lectures for CERN pensioners

The Medical Service and the CERN and ESO Pensioners Association invite CERN pensioners to a series of presentations given by professors and specialists at the University Teaching Hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva on the subject of:

PROMOTION OF OPTIMUM BRAIN AGEING

The final presentation will be given in CERN’s Main Auditorium (Building 500) on:

Wednesday, 25 February 2009, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

What is cerebral reserve ?

  • Historique et importance de la notion de «réserve cérébrale» - Prof. Ezio GIACOBINI
  • Intervention de la réserve cérébrale sur les troubles de la cognition - Prof. Jean-Pierre MICHEL
  • Comment est-il possible d’évaluer la réserve cérébrale? - Prof. Gabriel GOLD
  • Projet de recherche «Optimum Brain Ageing»
    - Aspects méthodologiques - Dr François HERRMANN
    - Aspects pratiques - Dr Dina ZEKRY

The presentations will be given in French with overheads in English and will be followed by a wide-ranging discussion with the participants.

CERN Medical Service
CERN and ESO Pensioners Association
(GAC-EPA)


by GS Department