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Neuroscience Grand Rounds - Lecture Archive

Lectures from the 2012-2013 academic year are listed below. For a complete listing of prior grand rounds lectures, please click here.

September 2012
Date	Title	Speaker/Affiliation
September 6, 2012	"New Perspectives On Epilepsy Treatment"	Keith Nagle, MD Associate Professor of Neurological Sciences University of Vermont College of Medicine
September 13, 2012	"EEG High Frequency Oscillations in Epilepsy"	Jean Gotman, PhD Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University
September 20, 2012	"Public Attitudes Towards Cognitive Enhancement"	Peter Reiner, VMD, PhD Professor in the National Core for Neuroethics Kinsment Laboratory of Neurological Research University of British Columbia
September 27, 2012	"Quality Metrics in Surgery"	Paul Penar, MD Professor of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery University of Vermont College of Medicine

October 2012
Date	Title	Speaker/Affiliation
October 4, 2012	"Ovarian Hormones and Migraine: In Search of the Holy Grail..."	Vincent Martin, MD Professor of Clinical Medicine University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
October 11, 2012	"Determining Death"	James L. Bernat, MD Professor of Neurology and Medicine Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
October 18, 2012	HILLEL PANITCH, MD MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SYMPOSIUM "Combination Therapy in MS" - Ron Milo, MD - Barzilai Medical Center, Ashkelon, Israel "Current and Future Disease Modifying Therapy in MS" - Robert Lisak, MD - Wayne State University, Detroit, MI "Emerging Therapies as a Window into MS Pathophysiology" - Amit Bar-Or, MD - McGill University, Montreal, Canada
October 25, 2012	"The Icing on the Brain: The Meninges Control Cortical Development"	Samuel Pleasure, MD, PhD Professor and Vice Chair, Neurology Department University of California, San Francisco

November 2012
Date	Title	Speaker/Affiliation
November 1, 2012	"Using Neuroimaging to Detect Conscious Awareness in the Vegetative State"	Adrian Owen, PhD Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Cognitive Neuroscience and Imaging The Brain and Mind Institute at the University of Western Ontario
November 8, 2012	"Why are Children with Epileptic Encephalopathies Encephalopathic?"	Gregory Holmes, MD Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
November 15, 2012	"Nicotine and Parkinson's Disease: Christopher Columbus to Michael J. Fox"	James Boyd, MD Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences University of Vermont College of Medicine
November 22, 2012	CANCELLED - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
November 29, 2012	George A. Schumacher Lectureship "The Experimental Therapeutics of Neurological Disease"	Robert Griggs, MD Professor of Neurology, Medicine, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics Professor in the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

December 2012
Date	Title	Speaker/Affiliation
December 6, 2012	"Gliomas: Origin, Current Therapy, and Acetate Supplementation on the Horizon"	Andrew Tsen, MD Neurosurgery Resident University of Vermont College of Medicine
December 13, 2012	"Prognostication in Non-traumatic Coma"	David Greer, MD Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Neurology Yale University School of Medicine
December 20, 2012	"Chronobiology of Migraine"	Robert Shapiro, MD, PhD Professor of Neurological Sciences University of Vermont College of Medicine
December 27, 2012	CANCELLED - HOLIDAY BREAK

January 2013
Date	Title	Speaker/Affiliation
January 3, 2013	CANCELLED - HOLIDAY BREAK
January 10, 2013	"The Acute and Chronic Consequences of Fatigue"	Ralph Yarnell, MD Associate Professor of Anesthesiology University of Vermont College of Medicine
January 17, 2013	"The Nightlife of Astrocytes"	Maiken Nedergaard, MD Professor of Neurosurgery Co-Director, Center for Translational Neuromedicine University of Rochester
January 24, 2013	"Neurovascular Coupling Under Stress and CADASIL"	Mark Nelson, PhD Professor and Chair of Pharmacology University of Vermont College of Medicine
January 31, 2013	"Inversion of Neurovascular Coupling After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage"	George Wellman, PhD Associate Professor of Pharmacology University of Vermont College of Medicine

February 2013
Date	Title	Speaker/Affiliation
February 7, 2013	CANCELLED
February 14, 2013	"Biomarkers and Beyond: The Science of Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease"	William Pendlebury, MD Professor of Neurological Sciences, Medicine and Pathology University of Vermont College of Medicine
February 21, 2013	"Genomic Approaches to Brain Diseases"	Guy Rouleau, MD, PhD Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University
February 28, 2013	CANCELLED

March 2013
Date	Title	Speaker/Affiliation
March 7, 2013	"Restarting the Arrested Development"	Yu Wang, MD Neurology Resident University of Vermont College of Medicine
March 14, 2013	"Advanced MR Imaging of Brain Tumors"	Joshua P. Nickerson, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology University of Vermont College of Medicine
March 21, 2013	CANCELLED AAN Meeting - San Diego
March 28, 2013	"Management Strategies in Autoimmune Neurology"	Andrew McKeon, MB, BCh Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine/Pathology and Neurology Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota

April 2013
Date	Title	Speaker/Affiliation
April 4, 2013	"Cervical Myelopathy"	Katrina Ducis, MD Neurosurgery Resident University of Vermont College of Medicine
April 11, 2013	10th Annual E. Stanley Emery Lectureship in Pediatric Neurology "The Origin and Molecular Mechanisms of Medulloblastoma"	Scott Pomeroy, MD, PhD Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School Chairman, Department of Neurology Children’s Hospital Boston
April 18, 2013	"Leber and His Optic Neuropathies"	Phil Aitken, MD Associate Professor of Surgery Division of Ophthalmology University of Vermont College of Medicine
April 25, 2013	"Sleep Switches: Clinical Implications"	Cliff Saper, MD, PhD James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School Chairman, Department of Neurology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

May 2013
Date	Title	Speaker/Affiliation
May 2, 2013	SPINE DAY “Spinal Metastasis: Evaluation and Decision Making”	Laurence D. Rhines, MD Professor and Director of Spine Program Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Surgery The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, Texas
May 9, 2013	"Cyanobacterial Influences on Human Health and Neurodegeneration: Is There a Link Between ALS Epidemiology and BMAA?"	Elijah Stommel, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Neurology Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Tracie Caller, MD Resident Physician Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Nicholas Field Medical Student University of Vermont College of Medicine
May 16, 2013	“ALS: An Evidenced Based Approach to Palliative Care”	Michael Hehir, MD Assistant Professor of Neurological Sciences University of Vermont College of Medicine

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