Evening Meeting

Professor Marco Catani is one of the world's leading authorities on brain anatomy and language. He pioneered the use of diffusion tractography to identify new connections in the human brain especially in relation to the development of language and related disorders such as Autism, Schizophrenia, Aphasia in stroke and Dementia. He has written more than 100 scientific papers and received several awards, including the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioural Neurology by the American Academy of Neurology (2012) and the New Investigator Award by the Wellcome Trust (2014). He is the head of the NatBrainLab (www.natbrainlab.com) at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London and his work has been featured in the New Scientist, Scientific American Mind, British Medical Journal, BBC World News and BBC radio 4. His most recent book 'Brain Renaissance: from Vesalius to modern neuroscience' tells the incredible life of the great anatomist Andreas Vesalius and the progress that have been made in clinical neuroscience in the last five hundred years.