Scientific Programme by day
Wednesday 5 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 (USA)
Epilepsy as a channelopathy
Ricardo Felix (Mexico)
Hippocampal and septal rhythms in epilepsy
Luis Colom (Uruguay / USA)
9:00 – 13:00 IBE Programme
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)
20:00 – OPENING CERMONY and WELCOME RECEPTION
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8:00 – 9:30 PLENARY SESSION: NEUROIMAGING AND EPILEPSYCoordinator: Fernando Cendes (Brazil)
Structural MRI: Optimising diagnosis in patients
Fernando Cendes (Brazil)
Functional MRI: Indications and protocols
Patricia Solís (Argentina)
SPECT and PET in Epilepsy
Rodolfo Ferrando (Uruguay)
Different forms of co-registry use
Ruben Kuzniecky (USA/Panama)
9:30 – 10:30 PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM
Peter Wolf (Denmark)
Susanne Lund (Sweden)
11:00 – 12:30 PLENARY SESSION: EPILEPSY SURGERY AND ETIOLOGIES
Coordinator: Americo Sakamoto (Brazil)
Hippocampal sclerosis: Causes, pathology, clinic and treatment
Fernando Cendes (Brazil)
Malformations of cortical development: types, clinical expression and its treatment
André Palmini (Brazil)
Tumours associated with pharmacoresistant epilepsies: A new concept in neoplasias?
Mario Alonso-Vanegas (Mexico)
When to perform surgery in lesional epilepsies
Manuel Campos (Chile)
12:30 – 14:00 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM
14:00 – 15:00 PLATFORM SESSIONS
15:00 – 16:00 POSTER SESSION
16:00 –17:00 MAIN SESSION: EPILEPTIC SYNDROMES EVOLUTION IN NEUROPEDIATRICS
Carlos Medina Malo (Columbia)
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 Da Costa (Brazil)
Adult epilepsy patterns: Interictal and ictal
Silvia Kochen (Argentina)
16:00 – 18:00 DISCUSSION GROUP: EDUCATION AND WORK PLACEMENT
Tomás Mesa (Chile)
Epilepsy: education and work placement throughout the world
Tomás Mesa (Chile)
Epilepsy: education and work placement in Latinoamerica
Salvador Gonzalez Pal (Cuba)
Epilepsy: education and work placement in Guatemala
Henry Stokes (Guatemala)
Epilepsy: education and work placement in Uruguay
Isabel Rega (Uruguay)
Friday 7th November
8:00 – 9:30 PLENARY SESSION: EPILEPSY COGNITION
Coordinator: Beatriz González (Venezuela)
Main causes of cognitive deterioration in children with epilepsy
Natalio Fejerman (Argentina)
Main causes of cognitive deterioration in adults with epilepsy
Daniel Nariño (Colombia)
Epilepsy surgery and cognitive evolution
Mirna Portugues (Brazil)
ADHD and Epilepsy
Eduardo Barragán (Mexico)
9:30 – 10:30 MAIN SESSION: DIAGNOSIS: CLINICAL AND SEMIOLOGIC VALUE
Hans Lüders (USA/Chile)
11:00 – 12:30 PLENARY SESSION: CONTROVERSIES IN PAEDIATRIC EPILEPSIES
Coordinator: Raúl Ruggia (Uruguay)
Febrile seizures
Roberto Caraballo (Argentina)
Neonatal seizures and epilepsy
Galo Pesantez (Ecuador)
West Syndrome
Patricia Campos (Peru)
Nosology of myoclonic epilepsias
Marco Tulio Medina (Honduras)
12:30 – 14:00 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM
14:00 – 15:00 PLATFORM SESSIONS
15:00 – 16:00 POSTER SESSION
16:00 –17:00 MAIN SESSION: EPILEPTOGENESIS: CONTRIBUTION OF ANIMAL MODEL STUDIES
Ed Bertram (USA)
Solomon L. Moshé (USA)
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)
17:00 – 19:00 DISCUSSION GROUP: EPILEPSY AND WOMEN
Coordinator: Alejandro de Marinis (Chile)
Epilepsy and hormones
Déborah Amado (Brazil)
Catamenial epilepsies
Alejandro de Marinis (Chile)
Pregnancy and seizures
Claudia Camejo (Uruguay)
Teratogenecity of AEDs
Alberto Díaz (Perú)
Saturday 8TH NOVEMBER
8:00 – 9:30 PLENARY SESSION: MORBI-MORTALITY AND EPILEPSY
Coordinator: Carlos Acevedo (Chile)
Severe adverse effects of AEDs
Patricia Saidón (Argentina)
SUDEP and Epilepsy
Marcelo Devilat (Chile)
Depression and suicide
Andrés Kanner (USA)
Risks and accidents during daily activities
Lilia Núñez Orozco (Mexico)
9:30 – 10:30 MAIN SESSIONS: SEIZURE PREDICTION
Value of prodromes in seizure anticipation
Alejandro Scaramelli (Uruguay)
Usefulness of seizure prediction models
Andrés Palmini (Brazil)
11:00 – 12:30 PLENARY SESSION: BASIC INVESTIGATION IN HUMAN TISSUE
Coordinator: Rafael Gutiérrez (Mexico)
The use of local, Brazilian animals as models for the study of epileptogenesis
Esper Cavalheiro (Brazil)
Modeling human epilepsy gene mutations
Jeff Noebels (US)
Electrophysiological studies of the recurrent circuits in human tissue and correlates in animal models
Emilio Garrido Sanabria (Brazil/US)
Chronic electrical stimulation of the hippocampal epileptic foci in patients with refractory mesial temporal lobe epilepsy
Ana Luisa Velasco (Mexico)
Synergy between molecular biology and neurophysiology in epilepsy research
Giuliano Avanzini (Italy)
12:30 – 14:00 SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM
14:00 – 15:00 PLATFORM SESSIONS
15:00 – 16:00 POSTER SESSION
16:00 –18:00 ALADE Course: CLINICAL TRIALS: DESIGN AND REVIEW
Coodinator: Samuel Wiebe (Canada)
How to design a clinical trial
Samuel Wiebe (Canada)
Monotherapy studies
Martin Brodie (Scotland)
Review interpretation
17:00 – 19:00 DISCUSSION GROUP: ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES IN EPILEPSY
Coordinator: Franz Chaves Sell (Costa Rica)
Alternative and complementary therapies in epilepsy
Franz Chaves Sell (Costa Rica)
Anthropological and cultural aspects of alternative therapies in Latin America
Marco Tulio Medina (Honduras)
Alternative therapies from pre-hispanic days to the present
Lilia Núñez Orozco (Mexico)
The use of alternative therapies in epilepsy in Uruguay: The European influence
Alicia Bogacz (Uruguay)
18:00 –19:00 HIGHLIGHTS SESSION
Coordinators: Alejandro Scaramelli (Uruguay), Peter Wolf (Denmark), Susanne Lund (Sweden)