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The discussants were eminent mental health scientists such as Professor Georgios Christodoulou, former president of the World Federation for Mental Health, Mr Dimitrios Kontis, assistant professor of Psychiatry, Professor Magda Tsolaki, neurologist-psychiatrist and president of the Panhellenic Federation for Alzheimer\u2019s and Related Disorders, Dr\u00a0Kelly Panagiotopoulou allergologist- group therapist. Mrs Magdi Birtha from COFACE Families Europe presented the 2017\u00a0\u201cWho Cares?<\/a>\u201d European survey for Caregivers. Psychologist Panagiotis Chondros from EPAPSY and Susan Gregory made presentations about carers associations in Greece. Mrs Mary Adamopoulou from EUPATI<\/a> Greece shared her experience as a Fellow of the Academy and Professor Aris Charonis presented the activities of the BBMRI-ERIC<\/a>\u00a0network in Greece. Moderator was Orestis Giotakos.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the 13th of March 2018, at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA), the Greek Carers Network EPIONI hold a workshop on the topic \u201cCaring for the caregiver: connecting to clinical and basic research update resources\u201d.\u00a0The event was under the auspices of the World Federation for Mental Health, the Greek Psychiatric […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mental-health","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epioni.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"vlcsnap-2018-03-15-15h49m07s381\"](\"http:\/\/epioni.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/vlcsnap-2018-03-15-15h49m07s381.png\")
The Brain Awareness event was conducted with the support of researcher Professor Dimitra Magoura (photo) who, aside from her interesting presentation offered an interactive tour of the laboratories of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA<\/a>). Participants experienced the way research is done in one\u00a0of the most modern research centres in Europe.<\/p>\n