The RCR has evaluated the content of the online University of Edinburgh 'Neuroimaging for Research' MSc. Category I CPD credits have been awarded for completion of any of the component courses or modules. Details of the CPD awards, and more information about content and registration are available at:www.neuroimage.ed.ac.uk

You can take the materials either synchronously with the MSc students and benefit from interactions with them, or at any time convenient to you and at your own pace. You do not have to enrol in the MSc to gain CPD.

Milosh Perovitch was a Yugoslav physician who spent several years of his academic career in the Department of Radiology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in the 1960's and 1970's. Upon his death in 2006, he made a bequest to the JHMI Neuroradiology Division who have decided, in view of Dr. Perovitch's close ties to Europe, to offer reverse sabbaticals to Europeans willing to visit Johns Hopkins for a period one to two months. The goal of the visit will be to exchange knowledge and develop collaborations. The stipend would be used to defray the visitors' expenses for the month as a travel grant. Expenses over the allotted amount ($12,500) would have to be covered by the grantee.

The Division of Neuroradiology is now accepting applications for a visit for calendar year 2011. The application process is a 1-2 page letter addressed to David M. Yousem, Division Director, detailing:

1. Proposed material (educational, clinical, research) to be exchanged with Johns Hopkins Faculty and fellows and residents in the area of neuroradiology
2. If appropriate, proposed technique (interventional or otherwise) which could be taught/shared
3. Months of availability in 2011 and length of stay requested (up to one month)
4. Contact information for one professional reference.

Please include a CV and any reprints or PDF files appropriate for us to evaluate the proposal.

Decisions will be made based on merit and a vote of the JHMI Neuroradiology faculty.

Deadline for receipt of application for 2011 is September 30, 2010. Decisions will be made by November 30, 2010.

The Scottish Imaging Network, A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) research group together with Edinburgh Neuroscience, Legal experts and the Scottish Parliament are currently hosting a programme of workshops to debate the potential wider impacts of brain imaging on society, such as its increasing use in the courts, as a lie-detector, for mindreading or in marketing research or national security.

For example, many will not be aware that there have been at least 90 cases in the USA and several in Europe where fMRI results or subtle structural brain imaging features have been used in capital punishment cases either to try to get a sentence reduced or the person convicted and executed! (not so far in the UK). Or that the Home Office tried to scan prisoners to determine if their rehabilitation had worked and they were safe to release.

We are seeking people’s opinions and concerns about these issues in a short survey.

There are two surveys: One aimed at the lay public and the other aimed at people who already use neuroimaging in their work (whether medical or other).

• British Public
• Expert

We would be grateful if even a few members of the BSNR could complete either survey, and even better if they could distribute it to friends and family and colleagues in their hospitals. Each one only takes a few minutes and it is more entertaining than the usual circular (at least in our hospital!).

It is a great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 18th Zurich Course on Interventional Neuroradiology to take place from 26 August until 29 August 2010 at the University Hospital of Zurich. Traditionally, the Zurich Course emphasizes the links among clinical presentation, anatomic background and endovascular techniques, based on dedicated lectures, video-workshops and extensive discussions between the participants and the Course Faculty. As the field of interventional neuroradiology has matured over the past three decades, long-term follow-ups are becoming availabe, which allow us to appreciate better the real advances which have been achieved but also the persisting limitations and the need for further development. These issues will be integrated and discussed in each main topic of the Course.

This year, the Course will again cover almost the entire spectrum of endovascular interventional neuroradiology with special emphasis on acute and preventive stroke treatment, management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage and of complex intracranial aneurysmal vasculopathies, devascularization of angiogenetically active skull base and intracranial tumors as well as therapeutic endovascular applications for AV-shunts of the central nervous system.

Greetings to One and All. Less than 6 months to go before the neuroradiological highlight of the year! We look forward to receiving your abstracts as soon as possible. Don't forget deadline for Abstract submission is Friday 9th July. Check out the BSNR 2010 Website at http://www.bsnr2010.org.uk/

Please make your hotel reservations as soon as possible as there is some pressure on hotel accommodation in Glasgow in September. An eminent person is visiting from Rome at the same time. The hotel rooms are held until the beginning of August for two of the hotels (Hilton & Malmaison) and until 16th July for the Ibis. We are striving to contain costs and hoping to reduce the registration fee from last year. The Registration form will be available on the website in the near future.

Best wishes from the Glasgow Team.

Invitation and Preliminary Scientific Information