• Recovering from Head Injury
• Medicolegal aspects of Neuropsychiatry
• The Neuropsychiatry of Love

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Thursday 13 February 2003

09.00-10.10 Registration and Coffee
10.10-10.15 Welcome by Professor Michael Trimble, Chairman

Morning session - Recovering from head injury
Chairman: Dr Danny Rogers

10.15-11.05 Biological processes and pharmacological possibilities
Dr Tracy K McIntosh, University of Pennsylvania, USA

11.05-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.10 Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Recovery: Clues from Functional MRI One Month and One Year After Injury
Professor Thomas McAllister, Dartmouth Medical School, USA

12.10-12.40 Outcome following children's head injury and its impact on family life
Dr Judith Middleton, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford

12.40-13.00 Head injury and Alzheimer's Disease
Dr Simon Fleminger, Maudsley Hospital

13.00-14.15 Lunch

Afternoon session - Medico-Legal Aspects of Neuropsychiatry
Chairman: Professor Thomas McAllister

14.15-14.45 Claiming for neuropsychiatric injury - the legal view
Professor Michael Jones, University of Liverpool

14.45-15.15 Neuropsychiatry in the Criminal and Appeal Courts
Professor Michael Kopelman, St Thomas' Hospital, London

15.15-15.45 Retrograde and post traumatic amnesia - a critical review of the evidence
Professor Narinder Kapur, Southampton General Hospital

15.45-16.15 Tea

16.15-16.45 Whiplash injuries - the state of the controversy
Dr J M S Pearce, Hull Royal Infirmary (Emeritus Consultant)

16.45- 17.15 There is no such thing as a minor head injury - Debate
For: Dr Peter Harvey, Royal Free Hospital, London
Against: Dr Jonathan Bird, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol

17.15 Close of Meeting
Friday 14 February 2003

09.00-09.30 Registration

Morning session - Members' papers
Chairman: Dr Howard Ring

09.30 -12.30 A number of short papers including:

Do Neuropsychological Measures Predict Functional Outcome in Head Injury Patients?
Laura Bach and Donna Oliver, Maudsley Hospital, London

22q11 Deletion Syndrome - a search for clues to the origins of schizophrenia
Kate Baker, Institute of Child Health, London

Developing a Comprehensive Neuropsychiatry Service: The Stoke Model
Dr Ken Barrett, Haywood Hospital, Stoke

Sexual behaviour in patients with Huntington's disease
Dr David Craufurd, J Thompson, J S Snowden, St. Mary's
Hospital, Manchester

Psychotropic medications in neurobehavioural treatment of aggression after acquired brain injury: efficacy and incidence of side effects
Dr John Freeland, A James, J Woods and J Sessions, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust

The treatment of Camptocormia - a case example
Dr Linda Heaney, Wotton Lawn Hospital, Gloucester

De Clerambault's syndrome and executive dysfunction: a case report
Dr Sheila Hudson, Maudsley Hospital, London

Effect of Galvanic Skin Response GSR) Biofeedback Treatment in
Patients with Epilepsy
Dr Yoko Nagai, Laura Goldstein, Peter Fenwick, Michael Trimble,
Institute of Neurology, London

Hypersexuality and Parkinson's Disease
Dr Philip Shaw, A Blockley, C Clough, R Chaudhuri, R Weeks and A S David, Institute of Psychiatry, London

Hashimoto's Encephalopathy: An Organic cause of Neuropsychiatric
Illness in Adolescence
Dr Sharon Taylor, E Garralda, Imperial College School of Medicine &
St Mary's Hospital

Friday 14 February 2003

12.30-13.00 Annual General Meeting

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Afternoon session - The Neuropsychiatry of Love (A feast for Valentine's Day)
Chairman: Professor Michael Trimble

14.00-14.35 The anatomical basis of desire and addiction
Professor Barry Everitt, University of Cambridge

14.35-15.05 Pathological Love - de Clerambault and Othello
Professor Paul Mullen, Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health, Australia

15.05-15.35 Cerebral Disorders and Disturbances of Sexual Behaviour
Dr Peter Gautier-Smith, London

15.35-16.00 Tea

16.00-16.30 Biological basis of gender dysphoria
Professor Richard Green, Imperial College School of Medicine

16.30-17.00 Enduring Love
Ian McEwan, (Author)

17.00 Close of meeting

Anyone attending the BNPA meeting is welcome to attend this additional one day conference:

Wednesday 12 February 2003 - "STEPPING OUT AFTER BRAIN INJURY"

Introduction

The theme of this one-day conference is the transitional period of recovery after brain injury once the person has left hospital and is aiming to return as quickly and smoothly as possible to as normal a life as possible. How can symptoms be kept to a minimum and activities resumed in good time? There will be an emphasis on mild head injury.

Key topics will be the efficacy of early interventions and educational packages, information systems, return to work packages, role of case managers, pathways of care and links to mental health services.

The target audience is broad, from clinicians in hospital and discharge coordinators, through to community rehabilitation teams and brain injury coordinators/case managers, through to occupational health clinicians and employment advisors. Users groups will be welcome.

Programme

09.30-10.00 Registration and coffee

10.00-10.05 Introduction and Welcome - Dr Simon Fleminger

Morning Session - Chairman: Dr Simon Fleminger

10.05-10.35 Management in the Emergency Department: preparing people for the best
Professor David Yates, Hope Hospital/University of Manchester

10.35-11.20 Mild head injury: predicting who may need help
Dr Corwin Boake, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, USA

11.20-11.50 Coffee

11.50-12.20 Early interventions: minimizing post-concussion symptoms
Professor Rodger Ll. Wood, University of Wales

12.20-13.00 Neuropsychiatric Sequelae of TBI: Fact And Fiction
Professor Thomas McAllister, Dartmouth Medical School, USA
Wednesday 12 February 2003
Afternoon Session - Chairman: Dr Raghu Gaind

14.15-14.45 Setting up an acquired brain injury service: who to help whom?
Jenny Garber and Maggie Campbell, St Georges Community Health Centre, Sheffield

14.45-15.15 Case management: for long-term conditions.
Cathy Johnson, Rehab without Walls, Milton Keynes

15.15-15.45 Tea

15.45-16.30 Factors determining back to work after severe TBI
Professor Zeev Groswasser, Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital,
Israel

16.30-16.40 Conclusions
Dr Graham Powell

16.40 Close of meeting