F R I D AY 2 8 M A R C H 2 0 1 4
FRIDAY 28 MARCH 2014
Main Sessions Epilepsy & Sleep
Parallel Sessions Epilepsy
09.00 - 09.30
WELCOME AND REGISTRATION
MAIN SESSION EPILEPSY - Theatre room / Schouwburgzaal ‘t Scureken
PARALLEL SESSION 1 EPILEPSY - Large backroom / Grote achterzaal ‘t Scureken
09.30 - 12.30
14.30 - 16.30
09.30 - 09.55
09.55 - 10.20
10.20 - 10.45
10.45 - 11.15
11.15 - 11.40
11.40 - 12.05
12.05 - 12.30
12.30 - 14.30
UPDATE ON MANAGEMENT
Chairs: prof. dr. Paul Boon, prof. dr. Bert Aldenkamp
Seizures in patients with infarcts and bleeds
dr.Shorvon
Veerle De Herdt
prof. dr. Simon
Cognitive side effects of anti-epileptic treatments
prof. dr. Christoph Helmstaedter
Non-cognitive side effects of epilepsy therapies
prof. dr. Margitta Seeck
Coffee break/Poster session
Enzyme-inducing versus non-enzyme inducing AEDs
prof. dr. Tony Marson
How do you optimize AED treatment?
prof. dr. Philippe Ryvlin
Super-refractory status epilepticus
prof. dr. Martin Holtkamp
14.30 - 15.10 SUDEP epidemiology
15.10 - 15.50 SUDEP in monitoring units, MORTEMUS study
15.50 - 16.30 Ictal tachycardia-based VNS, first experience
dr. Günter Krämer
prof. dr. Philippe Ryvlin
prof. dr. Kristl Vonck
PARALLEL SESSION 2 EPILEPSY - Conference room / Conferentiezaal ‘t Scureken
14.30 - 16.30
THE FIRST FIT, DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MANAGEMENT
Chairs: dr. Anton de Louw, Albert Colon
LUNCH AT HEEZE CASTLE
MAIN SESSION SLEEP - Theatre room / Schouwburgzaal ‘t Scureken
14.30 - 17.00
THE HEART AND BRAIN CONNECTION
Chairs: prof. dr. Paul Boon, dr. Bert Kleine
14.30 - 15.10 Epidemiology of first seizures
15.10 - 15.50 Diagnostic tools and therapeutic management for first seizures
15.50 - 16.30 The organisation of a first fit clinic for both children and adults
SLEEP MEDICINE AND SLEEP RESEARCH: YEAR IN REVIEW
Chairs: prof. dr. Dirk Pevernagie, dr. Sebastiaan Overeem
prof. dr. Tony Marson
prof. dr. Alfred Meurs
dr. Mariëlle Vlooswijk,
Sylvia Klinkenberg
PARALLEL SESSION 3 EPILEPSY - V1-V2 main building / V1-V2 hoofdgebouw
14.30 - 15.00
15.00 - 15.30
15.30 - 16.00
16.00 - 16.30
16.30 - 17.00
17.00
New diagnostic techniques for sleep-disordered breathing
prof. dr. Johan Verbraecken
prof. dr. Jan Hedner
What moves in restless legs syndrome
dr. Roselyne Rijsman
Sleep and the biological clock: an update
prof. dr. Tom de Boer
Pediatric sleep medicine coming of age
Nele Vandenbussche
Advances in our understanding of insomnia
prof. dr. Eus van Someren
DRINKS AT ’T SCUREKEN
14.30 - 16.30
DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC INNOVATIONS IN EPILEPSY
Chairs: prof. dr. ir. Jan Bergmans, prof. dr. Johan Arends
14.30 - 15.00 Teleconsortium, preliminary results of the clinical trial
15.00 - 15.30 Unconscious emotions
15.30 - 16.00 rTMS and tDCS in epilepsy
16.00 - 16.30 Anterior nucleus of the thalamus deep brain stimulation (DBS)
prof. dr. Johan Arends
prof. dr. Matthias Rauterberg
prof. dr. Walter Paulus
Louis Wagner
PARALLEL SESSION 4 EPILEPSY - First floor V3-V4 main building / Eerste verdieping V3-V4 hoofdgebouw
14.30 - 16.30
SPECIAL CASES: WHAT IF THE CAUSE OF EPILEPSY IS NOT UNDERSTOOD?
Chairs: dr. Marian Majoie, dr. Jurgen Schelhaas
14.30 - 15.10 Metabolic diseases and epilepsy. A diagnostic approach
15.10 - 15.50 The genetic work up in a patient that ‘got to have’
an underlying cause
15.50 - 16.30 Auto immune antibodies: causes and consequences
dr. Judith Verhoeven,
dr. Jolanda Schieving
prof. dr. Joris Veltman,
Francesca SnoeijenSchouwenaars
dr. Joost Nicolai,
dr. Rob Rouhl
PARALLEL SESSION 2 SLEEP - First floor V3-V4 main building / Eerste verdieping V3-V4 hoofdgebouw
FRIDAY 28 MARCH 2014
09.30 - 12.05
Parallel Session Neurocognition
09.00 - 09.30
10.20 - 10.45
10.45 - 11.15
11.15 - 11.40
11.40 - 12.05
WELCOME AND REGISTRATION
PARA LLEL SESSION 1 NEUROCOGNITION - Sports hall, location Berkenschutse / Gymzaal, locatie Berkenschutse
09.30 - 12.30
NEUROLOGICAL LEARNING DISABILITIES: MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS ON NEUROCOGNITION
AND COMMUNICATION
Chairs: prof. dr. Hans Vles, dr. Jos Hendriksen
09.30 - 09.35 Introduction
09.35 - 10.05 Imaging after stroke: cerebral palsy, cortical reorganisation
and language
10.05 - 10.35 Eye tracking and cognitive functioning
10.35 - 10.55 Disharmonic intelligence profiles in children with
neurological learning disabilities
10.55 - 11.10 Coffee break
11.10 - 11.40 RETT syndrome: cognitive functioning and communication
11.40 - 12.00 Working memory and language problems
12.00 - 12.20 Developmental language impairment and neurophysiology
09.30 - 9.55
9.55 - 10.20
prof. dr. Hans Vles
dr. Karen Lidzba
dr. Johan Pel
dr. Jos Hendriksen,
prof. dr. Hans Vles
dr. Eric Smeets
Brigitte Vugs
Debby Schrans, Sandra van Abeelen,
Sylvia Klinkenberg, Saskia Ebus
12.20 - 12.30 Closing remarks and discussion
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12.30 - 14.30 LUNCH AT HEEZE CASTLE
BASS ON “CLINICAL SLEEP MEDICINE”: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SLEEP MEDICINE
Chairs: prof. dr. Johan Verbraecken (BASS), dr. Hans Hamburger (NSWO)
Retentive characteristics of mandibular advancement devices
How to screen efficiently for pathological sleepiness in large
populations of professional drivers? Results of two alternative
approaches
Personality and other psychological factors in insomnia
Coffee break/Poster session
The role of sleep in ADHD
Oxidative stress in children with obstructive sleep apnea
prof. dr. Marc Braem
prof. dr. Elke De Valck
Merijn van de Laar
dr. Martijn Arns
dr. Kim van Hoorenbeeck
12.30 - 14.30 LUNCH AT HEEZE CASTLE
THURSDAY 27 MARCH 2014 COURSE
Advanced Epilepsy Course
12.00 - 13.00
WELCOME AND REGISTRATION (including lunch buffet)
13.00 - 14.00
ON-SITE VISIT OF KEMPENHAEGHE
ADVANCED EPILEPSY COURSE - Conference room / Conferentiezaal ‘t Scureken
14.00 - 17.00
COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE ON EPILEPSY MANAGEMENT
Chairs: prof. dr. Paul Boon, prof. dr. Bert Aldenkamp
Parallel Sessions Sleep
PARALLEL SESSION 1 SLEEP - V1-V2 main building / V1-V2 hoofdgebouw
09.30 - 12.05
NSWO ON “BASIS SLEEP RESEARCH”: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN SLEEP RESEARCH
Chairs: prof. dr. Tom de Boer (NSWO), prof. dr. Tine Buyse (BASS)
09.30 - 09.55 On-the-road driving performance in untreated insomnia
patients and chronic users of hypnotics
09.55 - 10.20 The caudate nucleus: a key node in the neuronal network
imbalance of insomnia
10.20 - 10.45 Sleep and Alzheimer's: the amyloid connection?
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break/Poster session
11.15 - 11.40 “Expected” versus “experienced” sleepiness: on the ability
to predict situational sleepiness
11.40 - 12.05 À propos d’un cas: Hypocretin-1 deficiency in a girl with
ROHHAD syndrome
dr. Tim Leufkens
dr. Diederick Stoffers
dr. Sebastiaan Overeem
dr. Olivier Mairesse
dr. Karlien Dhondt
14.00 – 15.40
14.00 - 14.25
14.25 - 14.50
14.50 - 15.15
15.15 - 15.40
Plenary session
AED treatment of newly diagnosed focal epilepsy
Management of status epilepticus
Management of refractory epilepsy
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
16.00 - 17.00 Breakup workshops based on cases (possibility to attend one workshop)
1. Challenges in tailoring therapy in newly diagnosed patients
(Large backroom / Grote achterzaal ‘t Scureken)
2. Best practices in acute seizures and status epilepticus
(Small backroom / Kleine achterzaal ‘t Scureken)
3. Epilepsy surgery rounds
(First floor V3-V4 main building / Eerste verdieping V3-V4 hoofdgebouw)
4. Non-epileptic seizures, practical management
(V1-V2 main building / V1-V2 hoofdgebouw)
17.00
DRINKS AT ’T SCUREKEN
prof. dr. Margitta Seeck
prof. dr. Martin Holtkamp
prof. dr. Paul Boon
dr. Nynke Bodde
prof. dr. Margitta Seeck
prof. dr. Martin Holtkamp
prof. dr. Paul Boon
dr. Nynke Bodde