2002 Meeting

Preliminary Program

CLINICAL AND NEUROBIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF NEW VARIANT CJD

THE MINDS EAR

PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

held at

INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH, London. Feb 21st and 22nd February 2002

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Thursday 21 February
09.30 - 10.20 Registration and coffee - Balcony
10.20 - 10.30 Welcome by Professor Michael Trimble, Chairman

Clinical and Neurobiological aspects of new variant CJD - Session Chairman: Dr Simon Fleminger

10.30 - 11.15 Keynote address:
Variants of human prion disease: old and new
Professor John Collinge, Institute of Neurology/MRC Prion Unit, London

11.15 - 11.45 Neuropsychiatric aspects of new variant CJD
Professor Eve Johnstone, University of Edinburgh

11.45 - 12.15 New variant CJD: Clinical and Epidemiological Overview
Professor Rob Will, The National CJD Surveillance Unit, Edinburgh

Member's papers - Session Chairman: Dr Tim Griffiths

12.15 - 12.30 Distinct qualitative neuropsychological features in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Dr Julie Snowden, Greater Manchester Neuroscience Centre
12.30 - 12.45 Neural representation of voices "outside the head"
Dr Michael Hunter, University of Sheffield
12.45 - 13.00 Is auditory cortex used to process a signed language?
Dr Mairéad MacSweeney, Institute of Child Health
13.00 - 13.15 Auditory recognition memory in Schizophrenia using the remember/know paradigm
Ms J Drakeford, The Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham

13.15 - 14.15 Lunch - Winter Garden

14.15 - 14.45 Annual General Meeting (members' only)

The Mind's Ear - Session Chairman: Dr Howard Ring

14.45 - 15.15 How does the brain process complex sound? Current controversies
Professor Robert Zatorre, Montreal Neurological Institute

15.15 - 15.45 The neural basis for auditory musical hallucinations
Dr Tim Griffiths, Newcastle University

15.45 - 16.15 Tea - Balcony

16.15 - 16.45 Update on auditory verbal hallucinations
Dr Philip McGuire, Institute of Psychiatry, London

16.45 - 17.15 Assessment and management of psychiatric disorders in deaf people
Dr Peter Hindley, St George's Hospital, London

17.15 Close of meeting

Friday 22 February
Pervasive Developmental Disorders - Session Chairman: Professor David Skuse

09.15 - 10.15 Keynote address:
How the brain processes emotional and social stimuli
Dr Ralph Adolphs, University of Iowa

10.15 - 10.45 Is autism an extreme form of the male brain?
Dr Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge University

10.45 - 11.15 Autism and developmental receptive language disorder - a follow-up comparison in early adult life. Social, behavioural, and psychiatric outcomes
Professor Patricia Howlin, St George's Medical School, London

11.15 - 11.35 Coffee - Balcony

Member's papers - Session Chairman: Dr Julie Snowden
11.35 - 11.50 Emotional memory in temporal lobectomy patients with unilateral or bilateral damage
Dr Barbara Brierley, Kings College, London
11.50 - 12.05 Psychosis following temporal lobectomy
Dr Philip Shaw, Institute of Psychiatry
12.05 - 12.20 Rivastigmine is preferable to Olanzapine in the management of dementia
with Lewy bodies (DLB)
Dr Giles Elrington, Oaks Hospital, Colchester
12.20 - 12.35 Magnetisation transfer detects anterior cingulate abnormalities in Bipolar Disorder
Dr Stefania Bruno, Institute of Neurology
12.35 - 12.50 Near-Death Experiences in Children During Meningococccal Disease
Dr Dan Shears, Imperial College School of Medicine
12.50 - 13.05 A Neuropsychiatry Outreach Clinic
Dr Feargal Leonard, The Maudsley Hospital

13.05 - 14.15 Lunch - Winter Garden

New Drugs for Neuropsychiatry - Session Chairman: Professor Michael Trimble

14.15 - 14.35 Deconstructing Serotonin
Professor Brian Leonard, National University of Ireland, Galway

14.35 - 14.55 Inhibiting Excitation and Exciting Inhibition
Professor John Jefferys, University of Birmingham

14.55 - 15.15 Neurotrophins in Alzheimer's Disease
Professor Gordon Wilcock, University of Bristol

15.15 - 15.35 Neuronal growth and synaptic plasticity: understanding antidepressant action
Professor Ian Reid, University of Dundee

15.35 - 15.55 Beyond atypical drugs, the next generation of antipsychotics
Professor Rob Kerwin, Institute of Psychiatry

15.55 Tea - Balcony
Close of meeting


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