A book about the experience of the Centre for Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias (Cirah, known by its Spanish acronym) will be presented at the Fayad Jam\u00eds bookshop on calle Obispo in Old Havana on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The book entitled Las ataxias hereditarias en Cuba. Biograf\u00eda de un proyecto<\/strong>, is written by Dr Luis Vel\u00e1zquez P\u00e9rez, founder of the institution and current President of the Cuban Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book analyzes the studies on this disease in Cuba, its global historical background, the experiences with patients and their families, and the advice given to both for the diagnosis and control of the disease. The book presentation will take place on January 15, Cuba’s Science Day<\/strong>, during which Vel\u00e1zquez P\u00e9rez will discuss this work with journalist and critic Fernando Rodr\u00edguez Sosa; it is published by Editorial Cient\u00edfico-T\u00e9cnica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luis Vel\u00e1zquez P\u00e9rez is a Specialist in Clinical Neurophysiology and a Grade II Specialist in Neurology. He has received awards, including the Carlos J. Finlay Order and the Georg Foster Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A book about the experience of the Centre for Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxias, will be presented at the Fayad Jam\u00eds bookshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,557,448,50,35],"ppma_author":[178],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-cuba","tag-cuba","tag-cubas-science-day","tag-fayad-jamis-bookshop","tag-havana","tag-luis-e-amador-dominguez"],"authors":[{"term_id":178,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"alicia-soto-smith","display_name":"Alicia Soto Smith","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1980,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioenciclopedia.cu\/cultural-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}