• Preliminary timetable
• Preliminary Scientific Programme
• CME accreditation
• Oral Instructions
• Poster Instructions
• Scientist Panel Prize
• Awareness Day
• Bursaries
• Tournament
• Call for Abstracts
• Late breaking news
• Ongoing clinical trials
• Abstract topics
• Invitation Letter

Preliminary Scientific ProgramME

TEACHING COURSES

• Free Teaching Course : "How do I examine?"

1. Movement disorders: skills and basics in diagnosis and therapy – basic clinical knowledge
2. Movement disorders update – advanced
3. Stroke epidemiology and risk factors: a clinical update – basic clinical knowledge
4. Update on diagnostics in stroke - advanced
5. Luigi Amaducci Teaching Course on dementia: basic clinical knowledge
6. Luigi Amaducci Teaching Course on dementia: advanced insight in treatment options
7. Practical clinical management of epilepsy – basic clinical knowledge
8. Advanced clinical aspects of epilepsy for the clinician
9. Management of early multiple sclerosis – basic clinical knowledge
10. Management of early multiple sclerosis - advanced
11. Autonomic disorders in neurology: diagnosis and managements
12. Evidence-based medicine headache treatment
13. Neuromuscular disorders
14. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
15. Sleep disorders in neurology
16. Neuroophthalmology
17. Therapy in neurology I
18. Therapy in neurology II

“Tapas Dinner” - Management of the dizzy patient

MAIN TOPICS

1. Silent strokes - how noisy are they?
2. Trigemino-autonomic cephalgia
3. Neurostimulation for epilepsy
4. Movement disorders in 2008 - what's new, what works?
5. Complications in neurocritical care patients
6. Traumatic brain injury
7. From vascular dementia to CADASIL: clinical and pathogenic aspects
8. Disorders of the autonomic nervous system: from pathophysiology to diagnosis and treatment
9. New trends in MS therapy

FOCUSED WORKSHOPS

1. Rehabilitation approaches in movement disorders
2. REM and NREM motor and behavioural disorders
3. Myotonic dystrophy
4. Nuclear medicine beyond routine procedures
5. Enhancement of stroke recovery
6. Differential diagnosis in paraneoplastic neurological syndromes
7. Brain death criteria
8. Multiple sclerosis: what can we learn from genetic studies
9. Animal models of migraine
10. Herpes virus infection of the nervous system
11. Update on progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP)
12. Transient loss of consciousness: syncope vs. epilepsy
13. Medication overuse headache: risk factors and treatment guidelines
14. The diagnostic role of muscle biopsy in the investigation of patients with myalgias
15. Manipulation of afferent inputs in motor rehabilitation

SPECIAL SESSIONS

1. EFNS-EUREPA – epilepsy symposium: Are new drugs not better than old ones?
2. Neurology and art - The good life EFNS/EFNA session
3. Specific diagnostic tests for autonomic dysfunction
4. European Basal Ganglia Club (EBGC)
5. Diagnostic challenges in neurology – Part I
6. History of Neurology
7. First Lecture on Clinical Neurology
8. Diagnostic challenges in neurology – Part II
9. Second Joint Session EFNS – PAUNS Neuro-Infectious Diseases

SATELLITE SYMPOSIA

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