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SUMMARY:Modelling Dementia - Alain Goriely (University of Oxford)
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CONTACT:Ferdia Sherry
DESCRIPTION:Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson
 ’s are devastating conditions with poorly understood mechanisms and no k
 nown cure. Yet a striking feature of these conditions is the characteristi
 c pattern of invasion throughout the brain\, leading to well-codified dise
 ase stages visible to neuropathology and associated with various cognitive
  deficits and pathologies. How can we use mathematical modelling to gain i
 nsight into this process and\, doing so\, gain understanding about how the
  brain works? In this talk\, I will show that by linking different theorie
 s and methods to recent progress in imaging\, we can unravel some of the u
 niversal features associated with dementia and\, more generally\, brain fu
 nctions.
LOCATION:Centre for Mathematical Sciences\, MR2
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