THE SOCIAL BRAIN and

NEUROPSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF EPILEPSY

held at

THE ROYAL SOCIETY, central London - 13th and 14th February 2000

THURSDAY 13 JANUARY

08.45 - 09.30 Registration and Coffee
09.30 Annual General Meeting
10.25 Welcome by Prof John Hodges

The Social Brain - Session Chairman: Prof John C Marshall

10.30 How primates learn novel complex skills: the evolutionary origins of generative planning?
Prof Richard Byrne, The University of St Andrews

11.00 Recognition of emotion after brain injury
Prof Andy Young, York University

11.30 Brain imaging studies of 'theory of mind'
Prof Uta Frith, University College London

12.00 The Neuropsychiatry of Abulia and Apathy
Dr German Berrios, Addenbrooke's Hospital/University of Cambridge

12.30 Schizophrenia is (not simply) a neurodevelopmental disorder
Prof Robin Murray, Institute of Psychiatry

Members papers/videos - Session Chairman: Prof David Skuse

14.00 Specific deficits in orbit frontal function in patients with frontal variant frontotemporal dementia
Dr Shibley Rahman, Addenbrooke's Hospital/University of Cambridge and B J Sahakian, J R Hodges, R D Rogers, T W Robbins

14.15 Social cognition in frontotemporal dementia
Dr Carol Gregory, Fulbourn/Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge andV Stone, S Lough, J R Hodges, S Baron-Cohen

14.30 The independence of theory of mind and executive functions
Dr Cordelia Fine, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, London and J Lumsden, R J R Blair

14.45 Depersonalization: Thinking without feeling
Dr Mary Phillips, Institute of Psychiatry and N Medford, C Senior, E T Bullmore, M J Brammer, C Andrew, M Sierra, S C R Williams, A S David

15.00 Autonomic Response in Depersonalisation
Dr Mauricio Sierra-Siegert, Institute of Psychiatry and C Senior, J Dalton, M Phillips, A Bond, A S David

15.15 Real-life-type problem-solving and frontal lobe functioning
Dr Shelley Channon, University College London and S Crawford

15.30 The Thalamus in Schizophrenia: An in VivoNeuropathological Study using Magnetisation Transfer Imaging (MTI)
Dr M S Bagary, Institute of Neurology and J Foong, M Maier, G J Barker, D H Miller and M A Ron

Session Chairman: Prof John Hodges

16.15 1998 Prize Winners. Motherhood and Memory: Pregnancy may be bad for hippocampal health
Dr Sallie Baxendale, National Society for Epilepsy/The Institute of Neurology and Dr Matthew Brett

16.30 Keynote Address: The role of the frontal lobes in complex behaviour
Prof Bruce Miller, University of California, San Francisco

FRIDAY 14 JANUARY

Neuropsychiatric aspects of Epilepsy - Session Chairman: Prof Tony David

09.30 Keynote Address: The Social Brain - the link with epilepsy
Prof Christian Elger, University of Bonn

11.00 Pseudoseizures
Dr Tim Betts, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham

11.30 Forced normalisation and related phenomena
Prof Michael Trimble, The Institute of Neurology and The National Hospital for
Neurology and Neurosurgery

Members papers and videos - Session Chairman: Prof Michael Kopelman

12.00 Social cognition in frontal lobe epilepsy
Dr Rhiannon Corcoran, Univ of Manchester and C Harris, P J Thompson, G Baker

12.15 Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Paranoid Schizophrenia & Astrocytoma: A Forensic Neuropsychiatric Video case
Dr Ekkehart Staufenberg, Little Plumstead Hospital, Norwich and S Lewis

12.30 SLE, Seizures and Self-harm
Dr Bruce Moore, Royal Liverpool University Hospital and K O'Driscoll, S Vinjamuni

12.45 Chasing the Chimera of Unitary Mnemonic Network Disruption in 'Organic' Amnesia: Analysis of a Large FDG-PET Dataset
Dr Laurence Reed, St Thomas's Hospital and PK Marsden, N Stanhope, M Kopelman

Neuropsychiatric aspects of Epilepsy - Session Chairman: Prof Michael Trimble

14.00 The role of brain imaging in the evaluation of patients with epilepsy
Prof John Duncan, The National Society for Epilepsy and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

14.30 New anticonvulsant drugs, unbiased opinions
Prof David Chadwick, Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Members papers and videos - Session Chairman: Prof Mary Robertson

15.00 Amygdala and frontal lobe pathology in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and affective aggression. A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study
Dr Ludger Tebartz van Elst, University of Freiburg, Germany/Raymond Way Research Group/Epilepsy Research Group, Institute of Neurology and R G

15.15 Epilepsy? - Narcolepsy: a report of three cases
Dr Adam Zeman, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh and R Aylward

15.30 Tea

16.00 Electroconvulsive Therapy in Parkinson's Disease
Dr Raymond A Faber, South Texas VA Hospital

16.15 A Case report of Epilepsy and Homicide
Dr Peter Fenwick, Institute of Psychiatry and J Lumsden, G Fenton

16.30 The basis for musical hallucinosis
Dr Tim Griffiths, Newcastle General Hospital

16.45 Close