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Dissemination activities
One of the founding goals of the CIEN Foundation is to translate to society in an easy and accessible manner the advances and progress made in the research in neurological diseases.
In this sense, the CIEN Foundation department heads have organized, as every year, various activities that allow the dissemination of the research work carried out by its professionals. This allows them to bring the scientific field to society in a kinder way, while translating results and relevant information on the various neurological diseases under study. During 2019 the CIEN Foundation has continued to develop dissemination actions of different types, among which we highlight the following.
Educational talks
With the aim of contributing to the welfare of society, from the CIEN Foundation, we want to raise awareness, through the translation of a series of fundamental aspects in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease, of the importance of its preven- tion, the value of donation of tissues for research, or the latest achievements ob- tained from the study of this condition.
That is why CIEN Foundation professionals, in addition to communications of a purely scientific nature in congresses or seminars, annually schedule informative talks in hospitals, nursing homes or other institutions in different parts of the Span- ish geography. A good example of this is the conference that Dr. Miguel Ángel Fernández, head of the Neuropsychology Area, and Dr. Marina Ávila, neuropsy- chologist at the CIEN Foundation, organized and gave on April 8 at the Carlos III University of Madrid. “Latest advances in Alzheimer’s disease research”, which was attended by many people, mostly students from the UC3M University for the
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