17th International Conference of the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa Marrakesh-Morocco April, 17-20, 2025

Title: ISN sponsored UM5 School Alumni symposium
Organizer: Nouria Lakhdar-Ghazal
African Center for Advanced Training in Neuroscience, Mohammed V University, Rabat,
Morocco
email: nlakhdarghazal@gmail.com

Abstract:

African neuroscience developed with the establishment in 2000 of the African Neuroscience Schools, supported and funded by the IBRO. ISN quickly joined this training programme by co-funding these schools or by being the main sponsor. In this way, Africa in general and Morocco in particular has seen the gradual emergence of IBRO schools, IBRO-ISN schools and or ISN schools. In 2015, the IBRO created two centres of excellence in neuroscience, which it named African Centres for Advanced Training in Neuroscience, one in Cape Town and the other in Rabat. These two centres have set up very high-level teaching programmes in basic and clinical neuroscience. Many young neuroscientists, doctoral students, post-doctoral students, neurologists and teachers at the start of their careers have benefited from this training and have been injected into the neuroscience community. Many of them are now established researchers, in charge of research structures in Africa or outside Africa, and have taken over as trainers. Today, the centres continue to operate with the same scientific and pedagogical quality, and the alumni of these training courses have attained qualifying neuroscientific levels, enabling them to participate in all scientific communication activities in Africa and throughout the world. The Rabat centre, attached to Mohammed V University, has been supported and co-sponsored by IBRO and ISN since 2021. On the occasion of the organisation of the International Conference of the Society of Neuroscientists of Africa, the International Society for Neurochemistry accepted to financially support a symposium of the alumni ISN supported schools. Khadija Boualam from Morocco will participate with a work on "Cognitive decline during Insuline resistance and protective effect of Brocchia cinerea", Maahir Kauchali from South Africa will present his work on "the pathogenesis of C. gattii-induced meningitis", Mundih Njohjam from Cameroon but leaving in Senegal will talk about "the Cognitive Impairment induced by Onchocerciasis-associated Epilepsy" and Leviticus Arietahire from Nigeria will participate with a work on the "Exposure to Ibuprofen Differentially Alters the Morphology and Synaptic Integrity of the Prefrontal Cortex and Amygdala". Khadija Boualam and Maahir Kauchali will represent the school 2023 on "Neuroimmunology, Neuroinflammation and Neuroinfectio" while Mundih Njohjam and Leviticus Arietahrire will represent the school on Basal Ganglia and Motor Disorders organized in 2024.

Speakers

Number	Speaker	e-mail	Title of  the communication
SP25_1	Mundih Njohjam	njohjammmundih@yahoo.com	NeuroOnchocerciasis: A Case-Control Study Assessing the Cognitive Impairment induced by Onchocerciasis-associated Epilepsy
SP25_2	Maahir Kauchali	KCHMAA001@myuct.ac.za	Characterising the pathogenesis of C. gattii-induced meningitis
SP25_3	Khadija Boualam	khadijaboualam94@gmail.com	Targeting cognitive decline in Insulin resistance: The neuroprotective role of Brocchia cinerea essential oil abdominal massage.
SP25_4	Leviticus Arietarhire	arietarhirel@babcock.edu.ng	Exposure to Ibuprofen Differentially Alters the Morphology and Synaptic Integrity of the Prefrontal Cortex and Amygdala of Adult Male Wistar Rat