Symposium on epilepsies, epileptic syndromes and EEG

D.Osredkar | 14. 12. 2010

Symposium on epilepsies, epileptic syndromes and EEG

Split, Croatia; April 8th-9th, 2011

Friday, April 8th 9.15 – 9.30 Biserka Rešič Welcome

9.30 – 10.15 Al de Weerd Technical aspects of neonatal EEG recording and The International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology guidelines for neonatal and infantile EEG recordings

10.30 – 11.00 Bernhard Schmitt Seizures, paroxysmal events, and electroencephalogram (EEG) findings in infants with pyridoxine-dependent epilepsy

10.00 – 11.30 Break

11.30 – 12.00 Michelle Bureau EEG in benign partial epilepsies – infancy & childhood

12.00 – 12.45 Raili Riikonen Infantile spasms: classification, aetiology and therpeutihic solutions

12.45 – 13.15 Pierre Genton Idiopathic myoclonic epilepsies of infancy, early childhood and adolescence (incl. BMEI, Doose S., JME and their variants)

13.15 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 15.15 Michelle Bureau Differential diagnosis of epileptic syndromes

15.15 – 15.45 John Stepehenson Differentiation between convulsive syncopes and epilepsies (how to distinguish faints from fits)

15.45 – 16.15 Al de Weerd The prevalence of sleep disorders in epilepsy patients

16.15 – 16.45 Break

16.45 – 17.30 Pierre Genton The GEFS+ complex and Dravet syndrome

17.30 – 18.00 John Stepehenson Gratification, shuddering, benign infantile spasms and bath-induced paroxysmal disorders in infancy

18.30 – 19.00 Raili Riikonen Cognitive outcome after infantile spasms

EEG technicians’ session 9.00 – 10.30 Renilde van den Bossche Hands-on on sleep and wake recording

Saturday, April 9th 8.30 – 9.15 Bernhard Schmitt Neonatal seizures

9.15 – 9.45 Raili Riikonen Treatment of status epilepticus

9.45 – 10.30 Break

10.30 – 11.00 Bernhard Schmitt Benign neonatal and benign infantile seizures

11.00 – 11.45 Pierre Genton The Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

11.45 – 12.30 Michelle Bureau Myoclonic absences: the seizure and the syndrome

12.30 – 13.15 John Stepehenson Neonatal non-epileptic events and seizures: benign neonatal sleep myoclonus, hyperekplexia, paroxysmal extreme pain disorder (formerly familial rectal pain)

13.15 – 15.00 Lunch

15.00 – 15.30 Bernhard Schmitt ESES/CSWS in child’s sleep

15.30 – 16.00 Pierre Genton Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

16.15 – 16.45 Break

16.45 – 17.15 Al de Weerd The influence of biological clock on epilepsy and the review of the literature

17.15 – 17.45 John Stepehenson Anoxic-epileptic seizures during infancy and early childhood

17.45 – 18.30 Pierre Genton Chromosomal disorders and epilepsy

Symposium on epilepsies, epileptic syndromes and EEG Date April 8th-9th, 2011

Venue Split, Croatia

Information and registration Dr. Anita Ursić ( [email protected] ) Prof. dr. Biserka Rešić ( [email protected] )

Invited Speakers

Prof. Michelle Bureau Centre Saint-Paul, Hopital Henri Gastaut, Marseille, France. [ [email protected] ]

Prof. Pierre Genton Hopital Henri Gastaut-centre Saint Paul, Marseille, France. [ [email protected] ]

Prof. Raili Riikonen Children’s Hospital
University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland. [ [email protected] ]

Prof. Bernhard Schmitt Department of Neurology, University Children’s Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. [email protected]

Prof. John Stephenson Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Glasgow Consultant in Paediatric Neurology Emeritus, Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, Scotland [ [email protected] ]

Prof. Al de Weerd Department of Clinical Neurophysiology & Sleep Centre, SEIN, Zwolle, The Netherlands [ [email protected] ]


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