Sunday, 29 May 2011
08.00 – 11.30
Non-Alzheimer diseases
Chairpersons:
F. Pasquier (Lille, FR)
A. Verdelho (Lisbon, PT)
A. Verdelho (Lisbon, PT)
Metabolic causes of dementia
Frontotemportal lobar degeneration
Parkinson’s disease and dementia with Lewy bodies: Two sides of the same coin?
Vascular dementia
08.00 – 11.30
Autoimmune encephalitis and epilepsy
Chairpersons:
C.E. Elger (Bonn, DE)
A. Vincent (Oxford, UK)
A. Vincent (Oxford, UK)
Immunopathy and immunopathogenesis of chronic grey matter inflammations
Rasmussen’s encephalitis: Its course and the treatment dilemma
Limbic encephalitis
Autoantibodies and epilepsy: Their role in diagnostics and pathogenesis
08.00 – 11.30
Update in neuro-oncology
Chairpersons:
R. Soffietti (Turin, IT)
M. Gilbert (Houston, US)
M. Gilbert (Houston, US)
Advances in surgery and radiochemotherapy of low-grade gliomas
Molecular approaches to glioblastoma
Controversies in the treatment of primary CNS lymphomas
Cognitive deficits in primary brain tumours patients
08.00 – 11.30
Effects and complications of long-term treatment in MS
Chairpersons:
L. Kappos (Basel, CH)
X. Montalban (Barcelona, ES)
X. Montalban (Barcelona, ES)
Long-term follow-up studies in MS: What can we expect?
Short-term observations as predictors of long-term outcomes?
Effects and complications of long-term treatment with IFNs and Glatiramer
Effects and complications of long-term treatment with cytostatic agents and monoclonal antibodies
Risk management of emerging treatments
08.00 – 11.30
Muscle basic course
Chairpersons:
A. Toscano (Messina, IT)
M. Hanna (London, UK)
M. Hanna (London, UK)
The patient with dropped head
How to evaluate the patient with a suspected channelopathy
Late-onset hereditary myopathies
How to deal with the respiratory system in neuromuscular patients
08.00 – 11.30
Full-day course Current treatments in neurology (part 1)
Chairpersons:
J. Schoenen (Liège, BE)
C. Bassetti (Zurich/Lugano, CH)
C. Bassetti (Zurich/Lugano, CH)
Treatment multiple sclerosis
Myasthenia gravis
Migraine
Neuropathic pain
13.45 – 17.15
Full-day course Current treatments in neurology (part 2)
Chairpersons:
J. Schoenen (Liège, BE)
C. Bassetti (Zurich/Lugano, CH)
C. Bassetti (Zurich/Lugano, CH)
Acute stroke
Epilepsy
Parkinson
Inflammatory neuropathies
13.45 – 17.15
White matters: Inflammatory and genetic/metabolic leukoencephalopathies in young patients
Chairpersons:
D. Pohl (Ottawa, CA)
R. McFarland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)
R. McFarland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)