Neuroscience Congress in India

by Nadira GUNATILLEKE

A great opportunity has arisen for Sri Lanka to promote Ceylon green tea as a 'health drink' in the international markets at the fifth Federation of Asian and Oceanian Neuroscience Societies (FAONS) Congress to be held from November 25 - 28 in Lucknow, India. It would be held in the presence of over 3,000 international doctors and neuroscientists from all over the Asian and Oceanian region and other parts of the world.

Senior Lecturer, Principal Investigator, Genetic Diagnostic and Research Laboratory and Human Brain Tissue Repository, Chairperson, Neuroscience Module Committee, Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Dr. Ranil De Silva will be delivering a lecture at the congress on the theme of Collateral function of the circle of Willis and Ceylon green tea in the prevention of stroke. Neuroscience Nobel Laureate Prof. Torsten Wiesel will be the guest of honour.Dr. De Silva and Prof. Y.Z. Zhu of the National University of Singapore demonstrated that Ceylon green tea displays cerebral protective effects on cultured human-brain epithelial cells.