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When Stroke Strikes – Conference

UNC Friday Center 100 Friday Center Drive Campus Box 1020, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

The UNC Comprehensive Stroke Center is pleased to offer a new educational program for nurses and other healthcare providers who would like to learn more about the care of stroke or other neuro patients. We hope that this will be the first annual event of such an important subject. This program is worth 7.0 contact … Read more

Understanding the Mysteries of Sleep

UNC Friday Center 100 Friday Center Drive Campus Box 1020, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

We spend nearly a third of our lives in sleep, and yet the function of sleep and its implications for us remain somewhat of a mystery.

Brain Surgery Through the Ages

UNC Friday Center 100 Friday Center Drive Campus Box 1020, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Since the first brain surgery with the trephinations (making a hole in the skull) done in ancient times to the more recent developments of placing stimulating electrodes directly into the brain to treat disorders such as Parkinson’s disease; neurosurgery has proved an exciting and at times revolutionary field.

Terra Incognita: Explorations of Consciousness

UNC Friday Center 100 Friday Center Drive Campus Box 1020, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

What is consciousness and how does it come about? The answers to these questions are not clear.