Brain Awareness Week 2025

2025. márc. 5. | News

Brain Awareness Week 2025

SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HUMAN BRAIN
„of dogs and men”

 

LECTURES

16:00 – Why is the human brain so special?

16:30 - Therapeutic dogs? What’s the human brain got to do with them? Or the hormones?

17:15 – Actions of a therapeutic dog- a practical demonstration

LABORATORY DEMONSTRATIONS

  • How sensitive are human brain endothelial cells to substances of our environment?

  • Electron microscopy – Biological samples studied with incredible resolution

  • What kind of system is the blood-brain barrier, which presents a problem in the therapy of neurological disorders?

  • Brain vessels and mini brains in a biochip

  • A miniature but highly efficient brain,– the Drosophila nervous sytem under the microscope

  • Neurons, spheroids and the future – What is outside of our head?

  • Transgenic mice used for modelling Alzheimer’s disease

  • What are brain capillaries doing? An insight into the living brain

ORGANIZERS:

  • Prof. Mária Deli

  • Dr. Gábor Steinbach

  • Dr. Zsófia Hoyk

  • Dr. Szilvia Veszelka

  • Nárcisz Cser

  • Nóra Kucsápszky