Scientific Programme - Special features
Epilepsy as a disease and as a model
Köhling, Rüdiger (Germany) / Neufeld, Miri (Israel) / Baulac, Michel (France), Chairs
Introductory remarks: epilepsy from bench to bedside
Elger, Christian (Germany)
Low-threshold currents and intrinsic neuronal excitability in a model of temporal lobe epilepsy
Yaari, Yoel (Israel)
The ying and yang of the thalamus: sensory signal transfer and absence seizures
Pape, Christian (Germany)
Memories and emotions: mapping the brain with EEG
Chauvel, Patrick (France)
Probing deep into the cortex: brain structures generating seizures
Kahane, Philippe (France)
Designing new AEDs: from bench and animal models to benefits in refractory epilepsy
Bialer, Meir (Israel)
A series of very practical courses (teaching sessions) made for neurologists
and paediatricians. Duration: 90 min, every day - 7:30am – 9:00am
22nd - 25th
The “How To Do” course is a new project within the European
Congress on Epileptology. The aim is to introduce young neurologists with
limited experience in the field to modern epilepsy diagnosis and treatment.
Registrants are advised to take part in all four session. Certificates will
be given to participants who pass the final test.
Course Coordinators
Elger, Christian (Germany)
Schmidt, Dieter (Germany)
DIAGNOSIS
Boon, Paul (Belgium)
Elger, Christian (Germany)
a) How to diagnose a paroxysmal event as epileptic?
b) How to use EEG and imaging in practical epileptology?
c) To treat or not to treat?
ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS I
Sander, Josemir W (UK)
Schmidt, Dieter (Germany)
a) How to choose the first AED?
b) How to titrate and find the first treatment dose?
c) How to change AED?
ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS II
Elger, Christian (Germany)
Neufeld, Miri (Israel)
a) How to deal with complications?
b) How to combine AEDs?
c) How to end AED-therapy?
PHARMACORESISTANCE
Elger, Christian (Germany)
Schmidt, Dieter (Germany)
a) How to deal with pharmacoresistance?
b) How to choose candidates for epilepsy surgery?
c) Final test
Chairs:
Alois Ebner - Germany
Kristina Malmgren - Sweden
Christoph Baumgartner – Austria
Pal Gunnar Larsson - Norway
Rationale:
Since the late 1960s, epileptic seizures and non-epileptic seizures
have been recorded by video. This technique helped obtain a large amount of
information on seizure semiology and proved to be indispensable with regard
to pre-surgical
evaluations. Nowadays, special recording units are built
The session has
two aims. First of all, the technical side of seizure recordings will be introduced
(i.e. positioning of the cameras, how to deal with day
and night problems, moving of the patient, etc.). Furthermore, the evaluation
of the recorded seizure will be demonstrated (i.e. how to interpret the
phenomena, focusing on relevant phenomena and how to relate the phenomena
to the EEG).
With regard to time, and this should be the main part of the session,
participants
can show their own video-recordings of seizures. These should be analyzed
by the chairmen, together with the audience, and evaluated with regard
to technique and interpretation of a certain seizure.
One of the two chairmen
will hold a 20-minute talk introducing the technique
of recording and the technique of video analysis.
