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| Monday, January 31, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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| Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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Noon - 1:00 PM
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Image Guided Tumor Ablation: Shifting Paradigms in Cancer Care
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Location: The Forsyth Insitute, Seminar Room A
245 First Street, 17th Floor
Cambridge
Speaker: Damian E. Dupuy, MD, FACR
Professor of Diagnostic Imaging
The Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown
University
Director of Tumor Ablation
Rhode Island Hospital
Summary: For decades conventional treatment of solid malignancies in the head and neck, lung, liver and kidney has relied upon surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Such therapies can be toxic, invasive and costly. As the median age of the population increases many patients who develop these tumors may be too frail or elderly to undergo the standard treatment. In addition health care costs continue to rise and many expensive therapies don’t provide significant improvements in quality or quantity of life. Image-guided tumor ablation is a less invasive alternative that can be used alone or in conjunction with standard therapies to locally control tumors. Cat scan, ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging provides image-guidance to place needle-like applicators into the target tumors whereby thermal or chemical treatment can be applied to directly destroy cancers. Image-guided tumor ablation is by and large an outpatient “bandaid” procedure that can be performed in the young or old at a fraction of the cost of conventional treatments. Clinical applications and data for this new treatment will be shown and reviewed.
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Pam Quattrocchi
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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| Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
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2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
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| Thursday, February 3, 2011
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
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Memory: Enduring traces of external and internal attention
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2011 MIT Colloquium on Brain and Cognition
Speaker Marvin M. Chun, Ph.D.,Yale University
Place MIT, Singleton Auditorium, 46-3002
Cognition can be broadly distinguished into perceptual processes that are focused on external information from the environment, and reflective processes focused on internal information arising from active mental representations (e.g., memories, thoughts, images). Attention can be directed either to such external (perceptual) or internal (reflective) information (Chun, Golomb, & Turk-Browne, 2011), and the traces of such processing yield different types of memories. FMRI experiments will show how selective processes separately influence the encoding and the retrieval of competing visual memories. This perceptual/reflective framework integrates a broad range of findings.
http://bcs.mit.edu/newsevents/colloquia.html
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Kathleen Dickey
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4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
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| Friday, February 4, 2011
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8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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Week of Sunday, January 30, 2011
