CRG Scientific Coffee: "Blueberries, brain training and raisin stalks"

SCIENTIFIC COFFEE “BLUEBERRIES, BRAIN TRAINING AND RAISIN STALKS”

Who has not heard of methods and secrets that can help miraculously make the most of our brain? In recent decades there have been great advances in neuroscience that have shown that our brain is more plastic than previously thought. So what can help us modulate it to keep it healthy as we age?

Playing sports, eating nuts and berries, making brain training exercises regularly? Which is better? We can actually slow the aging of our brain taking care of our diet and habits? Or, actually, we have marked in the genes from which age our brain inevitably will begin to age and it is little we can do about it.

Experts in neuroscience and genetics will address the issue in a pleasant way and will answer all these questions but also all that you want to aske them.
A talk-debate open to everyone and with the participation of:

• Mercè Boada, 
Neuroscientist, Group Head of the Neurology Service at the Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, VHIR researcher and Medical Director of Fundació ACE.

• Xavier Estivill, 
Reseacher and Coordinator of the Genes and Disease Programme at the Centre for Genomic Regulation

Date: Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Time:  7 pm.
Place: Pati del Centre cívic La Casa Elizalde (Carrer València, 302, Barcelona)

Organized by: Centre de Regulació Genòmica
Supported by: Fundación para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT), Red de Unidades de Cultura Científica, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya  and Institut de Cultura de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona.
With the collaboration of Consell de Coordinació Pedagògica de Barcelona.