Dr James Fisher from University of Birmingham Lectured in Our College

A lecture was hosted by the department of the Party committee of graduate affairs office and the college of life science and held in the Lecture Theatre of the college of life science at Nankai university onMarch 17, 2016. Dr James Fisher, who is come from theCardiovascular Physiology at the University of Birmingham, England, was invited giving a talk. Dr. Fisher’s research is focused on neural engineering and clinical electrophysiology. The title of Dr. Fisher’s topic was Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in human disease: insights from microneurography studies”. The lecture was presided by Professor Tao Zhang from the Nankai university. Many undergraduate and graduate students as well as overseas students took part in the lecture.

Combination with his scientific research work, Dr. Fisher introduced the forefront of progress in Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in human disease. He pointed that, Activation of sympathetic nerves in young people caused by cold-pressing induces heterogeneous intracranial and extracranial vascular responses, i.e., cold pressor can relieve cerebrovascular disorders, and its possible mechanisms are associated with a variety of life activities, such as oxidative stress.

After the lecture, the teachers and students expressed great interests and asked some questions. For example, whether rTMS can relieve cerebrovascular disorders by affecting sympathetic nerves and how cardiac autonomic regulation during hypoxic exercise. For these questions, Professor Hu gave meticulously detailed answers. Through this lecture, the students learned some knowledge of neural engineering and broadened horizons.