This is an educational activity endorsed by International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society, USA and was open to Basic Scientists as well as Clinicians interested in the study of Parkinson's Disease.
'Understanding Parkinson's Disease: From Clinics to Basics' - An Educational Programme was organized by the Department of Neurophysiology, at NIMHANS.
This is an educational activity endorsed by International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society, USA and was open to Basic Scientists as well as Clinicians interested in the study of Parkinson's Disease. NPhy at NIMHANS has its own facebook page now. From now on nphytimes blog posts will be available on facebook also.
Prof PN Tandon, Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery at AIIMS, inaugurated the new Human Sleep Research Laboratory at the department of Neurophysiology, NIMHANS. Prof SK Shankar, Acting Director, the Deans, faculties and Heads of various departments also graced the occasion. Some members of the NPhy faculty were out of station and were missed but otherwise the whole department - staff, faculty and students had a good get together.
Comments on the lab: "It's so calm here" "You all have really spruced it up, good job!" "Its so pretty!" "This will make a great 2BHK acco!" "We need to have a department of neurophilosophy too". The last comment was by Prof Tandon who shared several interesting anecdotes from the history of Neuroscience including jokes on "neuromythology" and "neurophotography"! Some snaps at the NPhy photostream. The month long Yoga Appreciation Course organized by the NIMHANS Advanced Centre for Yoga was inaugurated today by Mr. Keshav Desiraju, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India in the presence of Dr. Satish Chandra, Director and Vice Chancellor of NIMHANS; Dr. V Ravi, Registrar NIMHANS and Professor and Head of Neurovirology; and Dr. BN Gangadhar, Professor of Psychiatry and Program Director, Advanced Centre for Yoga.
Mr. Keshav Desiraju appreciated NIMHANS for its broad outlook in adopting modern and ancient systems of medicine and underscored the need for communicating to the public that mental illness is not something to be ashamed of and is an illness like any other. Dr. Satish Chandra added that NIMHANS has had an Ayurveda unit in collaboration with AYUSH for a long time and that he himself has done research with yoga adjuvant therapy in patients with refractory epilepsy. There are several ongoing research projects in NIMHANS using modern and ancient systems of medicine. Dr. Satish Chandra then remembered that Dr. T Desiraju, who was an esteemed scientist from the Department of Neurophysiology, had worked on Project Consciousness more than 20 years ago. |
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