2002 Joint Meeting with Association of British Neurologists

Final Program

held at

Royal College of Physicians, London. October 2nd-4th 2002

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Programme in brief (see below for full program)

Wednesday 2nd October 2002

am ABN Subcommittee meetings

1200 onwards Registration
1230 Association of British Neurology Trainees business meeting (Wolfson Theatre)
1300 Lunch
1400 Educational Symposium: Neurodegeneration and Dementia
1545 Tea and Exhibition
1735 End of session
Refreshments
1800 Satellite Symposium: Issues in the management of chronic epilepsy
sponsored by UCB Pharma
1915 End of Satellite Symposium, followed by Dinner arranged by UCB Pharma

Thursday 3 October 2002

0800 Registration
0900 Scientific session
Morning Symposium: Neurological unexplained symptoms
1030 Coffee and Exhibition
1115 Scientific session
1230 Poster Session
Lunch and exhibition
1430 Scientific Session
Afternoon Symposium: Frontal Lobes
1600 Tea and exhibition
1630 Scientific Session
1715 Guest Lecture
1800 End of session
1930 for 2000 Reception and Dinner, Royal College of Surgeons, London

Friday 4 October 2002

0800 Registration
0900 Scientific Session
1000 Coffee, Posters and Exhibition
1036 Scientific Session
1215 Presentation of ABN Medal
Medallist's Lecture
1300 Lunch and Exhibition
1400 Scientific Session
1448 Tea and Exhibition
1520 Debate
1630 End of meeting

FULL PROGRAM (Word 97 version, pdf version )

Wednesday 2 October 2002

1200 on Registration

1230 Association of British Neurology Trainees business meeting
Wolfson Theatre

1300 Lunch

Afternoon Session 1 Educational Symposium organised by St Mary's Hospital
Neurodegeneration and Dementia
Chairman: Professor MN Rossor


1400 Cerebral vasculitis
Professor N Scolding, Bristol

1440 Dementia with Lewy Bodies
Dr I McKeith


1520 1. The clinical and behavioural correlates of right temporal lobe atrophy
D Chan

1532 2. Diagnosis of dementing diseases using magnetic resonance imaging:
impact of ventricular and extraventricular CSF measurements
C Beeston

1545 Tea & Exhibition

1615 Clinical features of vCJD
Professor R Will

1655 Molecular pathology of vCJD
Professor J Collinge

1735 End of session


Afternoon Session 2 Satellite Symposium sponsored by UCB Pharma
Issues in the management of chronic epilepsy

Chairman: Dr PEM Smith

1800 Early recognition and management of refractory epilepsy:
have we made any progress?
Dr SJ Wroe

1835 Chronic Epilepsy: not a benign condition - epilepsy related death
Professor JWAS Sander

1915 End of satellite symposium

Dinner arranged by UCB Pharma

Thursday 3 October 2002


Morning Session Symposium: Neurological unexplained symptoms
Chairmen: BNPA: Dr J Mellers (tbc)
ABN: Dr SF Farmer

0900 Amnesias
Professor M Kopelman

0930 Pseudoseizures
Professor M Trimble

1000 Psychogenic dystonias
Dr A Schrag

1030 Coffee & exhibition

1115 Controversies and management
Dr M Sharpe

1145 Panel Discussion: Neither Neurologists nor Psychiatrists are competent to manage conversion disorder
Chairman: Dr T Griffiths
Discussants: Dr D Bateman, Professor M Kopelman, Dr A Schrag, Dr M Sharpe, Professor M Trimble, Dr D Wade and Dr A Zeman

1230-1430 Poster Session
Lunch & exhibition


Afternoon Session Frontal Lobes
Chairmen: BNPA: Professor R Dolan (tbc)
ABN: Dr J Chataway

1430 Neuropsychology
Professor T Robbins

1500 Frontal dementia
Professor D Neary

1530 Frontal lobology
Professor A David

1600 Tea & exhibition

1630 Video session and discussion
Professor MN Rossor

1715-1800 Guest Lecture
Politician's Health
The Rt Hon the Lord Owen CH
Followed by questions and answers

1930 for 2000 Reception and Dinner at the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields
(business suit)

Friday 4 October 2002

Morning Session 1 Dementia and Parkinson's Disease
Chairman: Dr SF Farmer

0900 3. The accuracy of the pulvinar sign on MRI in the diagnosis of variant
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
D Collie

0912 4. The first hundred cases of vCJD: early psychiatric and neurological features
and retrospective diagnostic evaluation
M Spencer

0924 5. Neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus
F Joseph

0936 6. Cognitive and behavioural profile of atypical Parkinsonian syndromes
T Bak

0948 7. A Yorkshire kindred with young onset atypical PSP and central hypoventilation
due to a novel homozygous S352L tau mutation
D Nicholl

1000 Coffee, Posters and Exhibition

Morning Session 2 Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy & Psychiatry
Chairman: Professor AJ Thompson

1036 8. The effective of nathalizumab and MRI outcome measures in patients with
relapsing multiple sclerosis
C Dalton

1048 9. Cortical multiple sclerosis
M Zarei

1100 10. Genetic analysis of multiple sclerosis in Europeans (GAMES)
DAS Compston

1112 11. Corticosteroids do not prevent optic nerve atrophy following optic neuritis
S Hickman

1124 12. The 12 year prognosis of unilateral functional weakness and sensory disturbance
J Stone

1136 13. The relationship between treatment with Valproate, Lamotrigine and Topiramate
and the prognosis of the idiopathic generalised epilepsies
A Nicholson

1148 14. Longer-term outcome in children born to mothers with epilepsy
N Adab

1200 15. A study of déjà vu in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, students and
neurology outpatients
C Warren-Gash

1215 Award of the ABN Medal
Medallist's Lecture

1300 Lunch & exhibition

Afternoon Session 1 Stroke
Chairman: Professor CP Warlow

1400 16. Predicting prolonged dysphagia following acute stroke
S Broadley

1412 17. Homocysteine and cerebral small vessel disease: a potential disease
mechanism through endothelial dysfunction
A Hassan

1424 18. Can outpatient neurology services ever provide sufficiently rapid assessment of
TIA and minor stroke?
E Flossmann

1436 19. Ambulatory transcranial doppler monitoring for circulating asymptomatic cerebral
emboli
A Mackinnon

1448-1520 Tea


Afternoon Session 2
Chairman: Dr DJ Thomas

1520 Debate: Published trials do not provide sufficient evidence to warrant the use of aspirin for the secondary prevention of ischaemic stroke.

Proposed by: Professor J Cleland, Professor of Cardiology, Hull University
Opposed by: Dr C Sudlow, Anti-Thrombotic Trialists Collaboration, Oxford

1630 End of meeting

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POSTERS
Session Time: THURSDAY 3 OCTOBER 2002
1330 - 1430 hrs
Topic: CVA

P1 The role of endothelial dysfunction in lacunar infarction and ischaemic leukoaraiosis
A Hassan

P2 A study of impaired awareness due to stroke
J Louis-Auguste

P3 High early risk of stroke after a first transient ischaemic attack
J Lovett

P4 A spatial memory deficit exacerbates visual neglect following stroke
P Malhotra

P5 Diffusion tensor MRI provides independent markers of cognitive dysfunction in ischaemic leukoaraiosis
M O'Sullivan

Topic: DEMENTIA

P6 Diagnosis of sporadic CJD using the putamen intensity gradient
A Colchester

P7 Cognitive dysfunction after isolated brainstem insult: an underdiagnosed cause of long-term morbidity
P Garrard

P8 Probabalistic diagnostic classification of dementing diseases using an automated analysis of the distribution and severity of cerebral atrophy
A Jackson

P9 Do rates of cerebral atrophy in Alzheimer's disease accelerate?
J Janssen

P10 Does MRI/MRS permit ante mortem diagnosis of progressive subcortical gliosis of Neumann?
A Larner

P11 Presenting features in frontotemporal dementia: distinct cognitive and behavioural profiles in the left and right temporal lobe variants
S Thompson

P12 Patterns of neuropsychological deficits in vascular, Alzheimer's and frontotemporal dementias
A Varma

P13 Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease: an epidemiological update in relation to geographically associated cases and history of vaccination
H Ward

P14 Variant CJD: development of a national coordinated care programme
B Weller

Topic: EPILEPSY

P15 Use of short term video EEG in the diagnosis of attack disorders
A McGonigal

P16 Percutaneous stereotactic thermocoagulation of hypothalamic hamartomas: efficacy and safety
N Mullatti

P17 Prospective analysis of the outcome of levetiracetam treatment
D Smith

P18 How accurate are seizure descriptions?
U Wieshmann

Topic: MISCELLANEOUS

P19 Charles Karsner Mills (1845-1931) and his syndrome
C Carroll

P20 Hypocretin (Orexin) in neurological, sleep and psychiatric disorders: a prospective study of CSF hypocretin
I Ebrahim

P21 Nociceptin/orphanin FQ, an ORL-1(NOP1) agonist inhibits trigeminovascular activation in the rat
P Goadsby

P22 Screening of the spastin gene in autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia reveals 7 novel mutations
C Proukakis

P23 The effect of corticosteroid on conduction in the visual pathways. A serial study using visual psychophysics
E Pye

P24 Volumetric registration of low-grade gliomas: a quantitative approach to measuring tumour
J Rees

P25 [11C]-WAY100635 PET: a surrogate marker for MND?
M Turner

Topic: MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

P26 CAMPATH-1H in the treatment of patients with worsening multiple sclerosis
A Cox

P27 Aggregate cultures from adult human brain are a source of oligodendrocyte lineage cells
C Halfpenny

P28 Genetic susceptibility to multiple sclerosis: an analysis of four candidate genes
A Hensiek

P29 Influence of depression on self-reporting of the physical impact of multiple sclerosis in two community-based populations
C McGuigan

P30 Treatment with beta interferon treatment in multiple sclerosis downregulates survivin expression in T lymphocytes
M Sharief

P31 Multiple sclerosis and occult gluten sensitivity
C Tengah

Topic: PARKINSON'S DISEASE

P32 Failure to identify change in the cervical dystonia muscle pattern is the main cause of reduced response to BTXA
C Cordivari

P33 Clinical phenotypes in PD and the development of dementia
E Dunn

P34 The neural basis for cognitive heterogeneity in Parkinson's disease as determined by fMRI
S Lewis

P35 Study of mutant and wild type torsinA in human SH-SY5Y cell lines
A Misbahuddin

P36 Early limb-onset dystonia with late generalisation in an Irish family in which the DYT1 (TORIA) GAG deletion has been excluded
S O'Riordan

P37 Picturing the atrophy patterns of progressive supranuclear palsy and multiple system atrophy in vivo using fluid-registered MRI
J Schott

Topic: PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY

P38 Preferential expression of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and receptor (IGF-1R) in small dorsal root ganglion neurons and downregulation within two models of nerve injury
M Craner

P39 Abnormal oscillatory drive to motorneurones in Kallman's syndrome
S Farmer

P40 Peripheral nerve granuloma in a patient with tuberculosis
R Orrell