Scientific Programme

ALADE Courses

ALADE was founded as an educational arm of the ILAE Commission on Latin American Affairs and the ILAE Education Commission with aims to:

  1. promote epilepsy education and research in the Latin American Region
  2. coordinate academic activities among the ILAE Latin America Region chapters
  3. to improve the health care of people with epilepsy in Latin America
  4. provide and promote epilepsy education and research with excellence, quality, efficient and humanistic approach for medical and non-medical professionals in Latin America

A number of educational courses organised by the Latin American Epilepsy Academy (ALADE) will take place for the first time at the 5th Latin American Congress on Epilepsy. 

Non registered delegates may attend the ALADE courses on Wednesday 5th Novemeber, at a cost of $US 50. Tickets may be purchased onsite.

Full details of the courses can be found below:

Wednesday 5th November
8:00 – 13:00 – ALADE Course: NEUROBIOLOGY
Coordinator: Rafael Gutiérrez (Mexico)

General View: Experimental Studies and Neurophysiological Basis of Epilepsy
Rafael Gutiérrez (Mexico)

Role of Synaptic Reorganization and Phenotypic Changes in Animal Models of Epilepsy
Luiz Mello (Brazil)

Genetics and Epilepsy
Jeff Noebels (US)

Epilepsy as a Channelopathy
Ricardo Felix (Mexico)

Hippocampal and Septal Rhythms in Epilepsy
Luis Colom (Uruguay / US)

Wednesday 5th November
14:00 – 19:00 ALADE Course: EPILEPSY SURGERY
Coordinators: Americo Sakamoto (Brazil) / Manuel Campos (Chile)

General Principles: Patient Selection, Important Zones (Symptomgenic, Irritative, Ictal, Lesional and Epileptogenic)
Manuel Campos (Chile)

Neuroimaging: Magnetic Resonance, SPECT, PET and Others
Fernando Cendes (Brazil)

EEG in Epilepsy Surgery (Non-Invasive Video-EEG, Indications for Invasive Studies, etc)
Juan Bulacio (Argentina)

Refractory Temporal Epilepsy Surgery: Etiologies (Emphasis in Mesial Temporal Sclerosis), Techniques and Results
Eliseu Paglioli (Brazil)

Extratemporal Epilepsy Resective Surgery (Frontal, Parietal and Occipital) Etiologies, Techniques and Results
Mario Alonso-Vanegas (Mexico)

Epilepsy Surgery and Children: basic concepts, causes and techniques with emphasis on hemispherectomies
Gary Mathern (USA)

Palliative Epilepsy Surgery: Callosotomy, Vagal Stimulation and Non-Conventional Techniques
Jaime Fandiño Franky (Columbia)

How and Why Epilepsy Centres Should be Established in Latin America: Costs, Opportunities, Training Programmes
Américo Sakamoto (Brazil)

Thursday 6th November
17:00 – 19:00 ALADE Course: FUNDAMENTALS IN ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY
Coordinator: Solomon L. Moshé (USA)

Fundamentals of Normal EEG
Carlos Arbo (Paraguay)

EEG Signs in Childhood Focal Epilepsies
Magda Lahorge-Nunes (Brazil)

General Epilepsy Patterns in Childhood: West Syndrome, Lennox Syndrome, Idiopatic Absence Epilepsies
Jaderson Costa (Brazil)

Adult Epilepsy Patterns: Interictal and ictal
Silvia Kochen (Argentina)

Friday 7th November

17:00 – 19:00 ALADE Course: VIDEO-EEG IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS
Coordinator: Hans Lüders (USA/Chile)

Hans Lüders (USA/Chile)
Elsa M. Yacubian (Brazil)
Carlo Alberto Tassinari (Italy)

Saturday 8th November
16:00 –18:00 ALADE Course: CLINICAL TRIALS: DESIGN AND EVALUATION
Coodinator: Samuel Wiebe (Canadá)

How to design a clinical trial
Samuel Wiebe (Canadá)

Monotherapy studies
Martin Brodie (UK)

Critical review
Emilio Perucca (Italy)