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Do the endless numbers in your annual medical tests give you a headache? Do you wonder if the headache itself is a sign of a larger problem? Does your worry spiral into an elevated heart rate that makes you worry even more? Take a deep breath and leave your worries at the door. Let our speakers gently guide into into the nuts and bolts of your health and the monitoring of it. Join us at 7pm at Sult!
Challenge Your Limits!
Davood Roshan
(Assistant Professor in Statistical Science, University of Galway)
My talk focuses on understanding reference ranges in medical assessments and exploring why and how they can be personalised for better, more accurate diagnosis.
Not So Elastic Anymore: Your Aorta’s Midlife Crisis
Mehak Chopra
(PhD Candidate | SFI CRT Genomics Data Science | University of Galway )
Think of me as a detective hunting for genetic clues behind why our body's garden hose (I mean, aorta) loses its youthful elasticity and hits a midlife slump as we age, sometimes leading to dangerous conditions like aortic aneurysms!
The Whats and Whys of Migraine
John Farr Rothrock
(Professor, Inova Health/University of Virginia)
The constellation of symptoms we term “migraine” has afflicted mankind for millennia. What precisely is migraine, and what causes the disorder? If migraine is genetic in origin, why has natural selection not pruned migraine from the evolutionary shrub? Let’s address these questions and discuss the intriguing possibility that migraine may convey evolutionary value
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