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The Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania is sponsoring a conference on “Clinical Trials in Neuroprotection” to be held Jan 23-25, 2003 in Key Biscayne, Florida.

The conference aims to take a multidisciplinary approach to address the question of how better to evaluate pharmacological agents that protect the brain from injury under a variety of neurodegenerative conditions. These include: stroke, spinal cord injury, brain trauma, epilepsy, perioperative hypoxia, neonatal hypoxia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, psychiatric diseases like schizophrenia and depression. Also addressed will be issues encountered by allied medical specialties that interface or deal directly with brain or spinal cord injury, e.g. emergency medicine, anesthesiology, cardiac, vascular and neonatal surgery.