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New
Cuban Neurosciences
Center inaugurated
• A scientific
conference to take place with the participation of
world renowned researchers in the field
Orfilio Peláez
The main areas
of investigation and production of the new Cuban
Neurosciences Center (CNEURO) headquarters will be
inaugurated today, in a ceremony which will include
the participation of renowned specialists from
Holland, the United States, Canada, the UK, France,
Germany, Brazil, Belgium, China and Turkey.
According to
CNEURO directors among the new key facilities are
the magnetic resonance unit which boasts the highest
resolution equipment in Cuba - created specifically
for the study of brain anatomy and function, and
which was donated to the institution by the
University of Maastricht, in Holland
During the
inauguration participants will pay well deserved
homage to Spanish professor Santiago Ramón y Cajal,
who died October 17, 1934 and made a significant
contribution to the development of neurosciences;
winning the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1906.
In addition,
during the afternoon a discussion will be held to
address the focus of neuroscientific research for
the next 25 years, providing an opportunity to
strengthen international collaboration and detail
the most recent advances realized in the field.
Participating
in the event, which will end October 19 are, Jacques
Beursgens and Rainer Goebel, vice director of the
Psychology Faculty at the University of Maastricht,
and founding director of the University of
Maastricht’s Brain Imaging Center, respectively;
Steven Hillyard, Professor of Neurosciences at the
University of California; Keith Kendrick, head of
Affective and Social Neurosciences at the University
of Electronic Science and Technology of
China; Edson Amaro, President of the Latin
American Chapter of the Human Brain Mapping
Organization; and Helen Neville, professor at the
Psychology Department of the University of Oregon’s
Neurosciences institute.
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