SUICIDE SEMINAR:Rural social change and the growing incidence of suicide is the theme of a public seminar by sociologist and parish priest, Dr Harry Bohan today at 2pm at the Teagasc Mellow's campus in Athenry, Co Galway.
The seminar has been organised due to growing concern about the number of men taking their own lives in rural areas. The Teagasc Rural Economy Research Centre in Galway is also funding a three-year study into rural suicides which will look at changes in farming and the relationship between road crashes and suicide.
For more details phone 091-845244 or email frances.conerney@teagasc.ie
STOP SMOKING COURSE:The Department of Preventative Medicine and Health Promotion at St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, runs a popular stop- smoking course. The next course begins on September 4th at 7pm. For more information phone 01-2214958 or email preventive.med@ st-vincents.ie
DEPRESSION DIALOGUES:For the past three years, Dr Michael Corry and Dr Aine Tubridy have been holding monthly public meetings for sufferers of depression and family members. Called Depression Dialogues, these meetings offer people a chance to speak and listen in a group setting.
The next meeting is on Thursday, September 6th. Earlier this year, Dr Corry established a new forum called, Psychosis Dialogues offering people the opportunity to discuss experiences of delusions, trauma of hospitalisation, etc. The next meeting is on Wednesday, September 5th.
The venue for both meetings is the Institute of Psychosocial Medicine, 2 Eden Park, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Phone 01-2800084.
NEUROLOGY UPDATE:The annual neurology update meeting of the Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience will take place in the Guinness Storehouse, Dublin 8, on Friday, September 28th. This meeting outlines new advances in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological conditions for clinicians who manage neurological illness. For further information contact Colette Fitzpatrick, Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, on 061-203040.
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