Georg Northoff - A Search Warrant for the Brain – How does a German philosopher end up as a Canadian psychiatrist

The Royal is pleased to host its 2011 information series Conversations at The Royal with its next session on Thursday March 31, 2011 at 7 pm “A Search Warrant for the Brain – How does a German philosopher end up as a Canadian psychiatrist”. 

Title:  “A Search Warrant for the Brain – How does a German philosopher end up as a Canadian psychiatrist”

Speaker:

Dr. Georg Northoff, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Research Unit Director

Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics

Registration is requested

Attendees can click HERE to register.

Date and Time
Thursday, March 31, 2011

7 to 8:30 pm (doors open at 6:30)

Location
Associates in Psychiatry Auditorium

Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre

1145 Carling Avenue, Ottawa

Presentation Summary

Dr. George Northoff will use the opportunity to present the complexity of mental disorders like depression and schizophrenia and how they may be related to the brain. He will then sketch his own professional and transcontinental path and how it ultimately led him to Canada to investigate how we can better diagnose and therapy depression and schizophrenia. Examples from his own research are given providing a first glimpse how our brain makes it possible that we have consciousness and a sense of self and, at the same time, how they become altered in schizophrenia and depression.