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York Festival of Ideas 2025 - Talk by Dr Kalliopi Megari
Event Date: 02/06/2025
Protecting the Brain While Healing Hearts
Monday 2 June 2025
3:00pm - 4:00pm (EEST)
Online
Speaker:
Dr Kalliopi Megari
Lecturer and Programme Lead of postgraduate programme in Clinical Psychology
Psychology Department, CITY College, University of York Europe Campus
Overview:
Discover how specialised brain training programmes can boost recovery and quality of life after heart surgery.
Cardiac surgery can unfortunately lead to cognitive decline which affects the patient’s ability to think, learn, remember and make decisions. This not only impacts an individual’s wellbeing, but can also result in morbidity and higher health care costs.
Clinical neuropsychologist Kalliopi Megari of the CITY College, University of York Europe Campus, will explain how cognitive reserve - the brain’s ability to cope with damage - plays a key role in recovery. She’ll stress the need for assessments that target this reserve so that patients can be guided into specialised cognitive enhancement programmes designed to improve post-surgery recovery and outcomes.
Kalliopi will also discuss how rehabilitation programmes pre-surgically might also be able to reinforce cognitive reserve before any surgery-related decline occurs.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar.
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