Brain Repair

This five-week course will discuss what we know and don’t know about Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), stroke, and dementia. Potential treatments and therapies, particularly for TBI and stroke, will be reviewed and evaluated. This lecture course has been offered previously and will now include one or two classes of what we think we know about Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other dementing disorders. The purpose of the class is to help seniors get a better understanding of injury and the repair of the damaged brain and nervous system.

Required Reading: None. Presentations will be provided in PDF format for further study outside of class. 

Don Stein retired in 2021 from Emory University School of Medicine as Asa G. Candler Professor and Distinguished Professor in Emergency Medicine and Neuroscience. His early work on sex differences in recovery from brain injury led to decades of research on the role of hormones in plasticity and repair of CNS injury.