Registrar’s Prize in
Clinical Neuroscience
Director: Dr. John McHugh
Sponsored by: Biogen Idec Ireland
Merrion Room, RDS, Dublin
November 13th 2015
Registrar’s Prize in Clinical Neuroscience
November 13th 2015
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08.30 – 09.00
Registration
09.00 – 09.10
Welcome and Introduction
Dr. John McHugh
INTERESTING CASE REPORTS
10 minutes: 8 minutes presentation + 2 minutes questions
09.10 Secondary Parkinsonism due to giant basilar artery aneurysm
Beiser I, O’Riordan S, Hutchinson M.
09.21 Necrotising myopathy: A case report
Chalissery A, Meaney J, Langan Y, Brett F, Redmond J.
09.32 Laughter induced episodes of hemiparesis in a young patient with
Neurofibromatosis type 1.
Drazyk AM, McGuigan C.
09.43 “Words untold”
Iyer PM, McGuiness B, Scott J, Manning S, Farrell M, Lynch T.
09.54 A Slip of the Tongue
Maloney E, Killeen R, O’Riordan S.
10.05 A Painful Neuropathy
McNamara PH, Walsh R, Alexander M, Brett F, Murphy SM.
10.16 Unilateral muscle hypertrophy following L5 radiculopathy.
McGovern EM, Farrell M, Kileen R, McGuigan C, Connolly S
10.30 – 10.50 Tea and Coffee
10.50 A technician and a taxidermist: two cases of cranial polyneuropathy
Doherty CM, McConville J.
11.01 Unusual neurological presentation in a patient with known metastatic prostate
cancer
Elkider, M, O'Connor GD.
11.12 High Pressure Neurology: Excellent Myelopathic Recovery.
Ferguson D, Whyte P, Monaghan T.
11.23 Myoclonic Wilson’s disease?
Doherty KM, Maxwell P, Shields J, McKinley J.
11.34 Recurrent Absence Status Epilepticus in an adult with Juvenile Absence Epilepsy
McNicholas N, Moloney P, Mullins G, Delanty N.
11.45 An interesting presentation of Morvan’s Syndrome
Monaghan B, O’ Rourke K, Smyth S, Lynch T.
11.56 Hereditary spastic paraparesis, yet another gene
Munteanu T, O’Dowd S, Langan Y, Brett F, Abou Jamra R, Redmond J.
12.07 “A generation of dancers?”
Murphy O, O’Toole O, Hand C, Ryan A.
12.20 – 13.05 Lunch
13.08 Young onset-Parkinsonism secondary to C9ORF72 hexanucleotide repeat
expansion.
Kee R, Kearney S, McKinley J.
13.20 “Lamb…whatever that is, a hump, what do you call it?”
Olszewska DA, McCarthy A, Lynch T.
13.31 Headache during haemodialysis in a patient with shunt; a cause for concern?
Sajjad J, O’Sullivan P, Abrar S, Marks C.
13.42 A Taxing Situation
Shaikh E, Nolan TJ, Horan A, MacNamara B, O’Toole O.
13.53 I Heard It Was The Basilar
Yap SM, Wyse G, Nicholas J, Higgins P, O’Brien E, Cronin S.
14.10 – 14.30
Tea and Coffee
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
15 minutes: 12 minutes presentation + 3 minutes questions
14.30 Response to vitamin D supplementation in people with clinically isolated
syndrome and healthy controls.
O’Connell K, Tubridy N, McGuigan C, Hutchinson M.
14.46 Challenges in the diagnosis of patients with epilepsy and coexisting psychogenic
non-epileptic seizures.
McGinty R, Costello D.
15.02 Head turning onset and velocity in response to a peripheral visual stimulus in
healthy control participants.
Beiser I, Quinlivan B, O’Riordan S, Butler JS, Reilly RB, Hutchinson M.
15.18 Age-related sexual dimorphism in temporal discrimination and adult-onset
dystonia: pathomechanisms
McGovern E, Butler J, Beiser I, Williams L, Molloy F, Lynch T, Healy D, Moore H,
Walsh R, Reilly RB, O’Riordan S, Walsh C, Hutchinson M.
15.34 Early life stress and the oestrogen interact to influence both visceral pain
sensitivity and glutamate Metabolism
Sajjad J, Moloney RD, Foley T, Dinan TG, Cryan JF, O’Mahony SM.
15.50 Characterisation of adult onset isolated focal dystonia in an Irish population.
Williams L, Butler JB, Molloy A, Kimmich O, McGovern E, Beiser I, Walsh R, Healy
D, Moore H, Molly F, O’Riordan S, Hutchinson M.
16.06 Patient-derived glioblastoma cells show significant heterogeneity in treatment
responses to the inhibitor-of-apoptosis-protein (IAP) antagonist Birinapant
Zakaria Z, O’Brien DF, Byrne AT, Prehn JHM.
16.20
Judges deliberation
16.30
Announcement and Presentation of awards