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Each year, the 91制片厂鈥檚 Global Education Center awards competitive grants for faculty to enhance their international engagement and development. The Center recently selected听, assistant professor of听听and听, to receive one of the International Development Grants.

Seichepine will use the grant to travel to Paran谩,听Brazil, this spring to hold a weeklong course on neurodegenerative disorders at the Irati campus of the Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste. A clinical neuropsychologist, Seichepine will teach undergraduate students about Alzheimer鈥檚 disease, Parkinson鈥檚 disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease found in athletes, veterans and others who鈥檝e experienced repetitive brain trauma.

Dementia currently affects 47 million people across the globe, and this number is expected to reach more than 130 million by 2050. Increasing age is the single greatest predictor of developing dementia, and Seichepine says Brazil has a rapidly aging population.

鈥淭he U.S. has seen our average lifespan increase by five years over the past four decades, compared to an increase of 13 years in Brazil,鈥� Seichepine says. 鈥淕iven this rapid increase in aging, Brazil is on the verge of a significant rise in dementia and the impacts it brings to healthcare and the economy.鈥�

The Universidade Esadual do Centro-Oeste is a public university that is home to about 9,500 undergraduate students. Like 91制片厂 Manchester, its psychology program offers courses and research opportunities in neuroscience and neuropsychology. Seichepine worked with Plinio Toni, professor of neuropsychology and director of the Universidade鈥檚 Laboratory of Neuroscience, to develop his project proposal. While most courses at the Universidade are taught in Portuguese, Seichepine鈥檚 lecture will be part of Toni鈥檚 Clinical Psychology course which is being offered through their 鈥淓nglish as a Medium of Instruction鈥� program.

Seichepine鈥檚 primary goal is to create research collaborations and study abroad opportunities for students in the听听at both 91制片厂 Manchester and the Universidade Estadual do Centro-Oeste.