The Brain Illuminated at Brain 2005

Over 400 medical professionals from 10 regions in the world attended Brain 2005, the Third Asia Pacific Multidisciplinary Meeting for Nervous System Diseases, held on 2nd and 3rd December at the Postgraduate Education Centre of the Prince of Wales Hospital. Jointly organized by neurologists, neuropathologists, neurosurgeons, neuro-oncologists, and neuroscientists of the Faculty of Medicine, this is the only multidisciplinary meeting of its kind in the Asia Pacific region.

The themes addressed at the conference included epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and paediatric brain tumours. Eleven international experts joined their local counterparts to discuss the new classification of medulloblastomas, pathophysiology of Parkinson's disease, and the treatment of refractory epilepsy. The conference was officiated by Prof. T.F. Fok, dean of medicine.

Support for the event was given by the Hong Kong Neurosurgical Society, the Hong Kong Neurological Society, the Hong Kong Society of Neurosciences, and the Hong Kong Division of the International Academy of Pathology.