S&S Dinner Dialogues, with Dr. Miles Berger - Making Sense of Confusion
Event Details
Making Sense of Confusion: Studying Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction, Neuroinflammation, and Alzheimer’s Disease.
Why do so many older patients develop thinking and memory problems after anesthesia and surgery? What might be causing these problems? And how might we prevent them for future patients and loved ones?
Dr. Miles Berger is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology.
Readings:
- Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction
- The Risk of Going Under – Scientific American
- The Post-Op Brain – Science Magazine
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Where to meet:
Selected attendees will be notified via email several days in advance of the dinner with details regarding meeting location. All dinners will be within reasonable driving distance to Duke campus.
Science & Society will also provide a shuttle for those unable to arrange transportation to the dinner dialogue location. Shuttles will depart 30 minutes before the scheduled event from the front entrance of the North Building on West Campus. Click here for a map.