Alasdair MacLullich (UK)“Pathogenesis and Practical Management of Delirium”
Richard Knight (UK)“Differential diagnosis of rapidly progressive dementia”
Keynote: Angela Vincent (UK) “Antibodies in neuropsychiatric disorders and more”
Head Injury
Sir Graham Teasdale“Head injury – management and disability”
David Cassidy (CA)“Epidemiology of mild brain injury”
Lord Malcolm Campbell (UK)“How a judge appraises medical evidence”
JonathanEvans (UK)“Rehabilitation for dysexecutive symptoms”
Neuropsychiatry and the self
Anthony David (UK)“Self Awareness/Insight in Neuropsychiatric Disorders”
Raymond Tallis (UK) “Personal Identity, Mind and Body”
Steven Laureys (B)“Brain imaging studies of self processing”
10 February - Speakers and Topics to include:
(convened by Professor Michael Kopelman)
Alan Baddeley (UK) “Concepts of memory”
Nick Fox (UK) “Clinical advances in understanding and classification of the dementias” (TBC)
Peter Nestor (UK) “Clinical, neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies of MCI”
Julie Snowden (UK) “Neuropsychological advances in our understanding and classification of the dementias”
Michael Kopelman (UK)“Clinical varieties of amnesic disorders”
Andrew Mayes (UK)“Theories of hippocampal function in anterograde amnesia”
Morris Moscovitch (Ca) “A theory of hippocampal function in retrograde amnesia”
Armin Schnider (Ch) “A theory of confabulation”
Barbara Wilson (UK) “The rehabilitation of memory disorders”
Future BNPA teaching weekends
The first BNPA teaching weekend proved to be a great success. The committee have decided to hold this event biannually. Therefore the next teaching weekend will be inDecember 2010. The exact date and registration details will be announced in the Spring newsletter of 2010.