The topics for this meeting are:

• Language Disorders,
• Parietal Lobes
• Consciousness
• Members' papers.

Thursday 26 February

09.00-10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.00-10.05 Welcome - Professor Michael Trimble, Chairman

Morning session - Language Disorders - Chairman: Dr Tim Griffiths

10.05 - 10.35 Acquired aphasic syndromes. A primer for neurologists, psychiatrists and neuropsychologists
Dr Argye Beth Hillis, Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine, USA

10.35 - 11.05 Developmental disorders of language and reading. What should adult neurologists, psychiatrists, and neuropsychologists know about these?
Professor Maggie Snowling, University of York

11.05 - 11.30 Coffee - Balcony and Winter Garden

11.30 - 12.00 Therapy for acquired language disorders: new and old evidence on effectiveness
Professor David Howard, University of Newcastle

12.00 - 12.30 An evolutionary perspective on language and its relationship to psychosis
Professor Tim Crow, University of Oxford

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch - Balcony and Winter Garden

Afternoon session -
Members' papers & Guest Lecture - Chairman: Professor Michael Trimble

14.00 - 14.15 Sleep, altered states of consciousness and psychosis
Nikola N Ilankovic, Andrej N Ilankovic
Institute of Psychiatry, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

14.15 - 14.30 The impact of unilateral anterior temporal lobectomy on emotional perception and 'theory of mind' reasoning
P Shaw, E. Lawrence, C Radbourne, J Bramham, C Polkey, A S David
Institute of Psychiatry, London

14.30 - 14.45 Not a laughing matter
D E Crompton, T D Griffiths
Newcastle General Hospital

14.45 - 15.00 Catatonia in present day psychiatry - a postal
questionnaire's study
D Hank, S Morgan, S Harris, D Rogers
The Burden Centre, Bristol

15.00 - 15.15 The neural systems that sustain sentence comprehension after left anterior temporal lobe resection for refractory epilepsy
Uta Noppeney, Matthias Koepp, Karl J. Friston, Cathy J. Price
Institute of Neurology, London

15.15 - 15.45 Tea - Balcony and Winter Garden

15.45 - 16.00 Presymptomatic focal atrophy precedes speech production impairment in familial frontotemporal lobar degeneration
JM Schott, JC Janssen, L Cipolotti, NC Fox, RI Scahill, KA Josephs, JM Stevens, MN Rossor
Institute of Neurology, London

16.00 - 16.15 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy as a diagnostic tool in frontotemporal dementia
EJ Coulthard, M Firbank, PT English, D Birchall, J Welch, J O'Brien, TD Griffiths
Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle

16.15 - 16.30 Language & memory impairments in a case study of semantic dementia
J J Tree, J M Kay, R Baron, C Haslam, C Williams
University of Exeter

16.30 - 17.30 Guest Lecture
The Neuropsychiatry of Gulf War Syndrome
Professor Simon Wessely, Institute of Psychiatry

17.30 - 18.30 Cheese and Wine Party in the Winter Garden

Friday 27 February

0900 - 10.00 Registration

Morning session - Parietal Lobes - Chairman: Professor Ray Dolan

10.00 - 10.45 Keynote address:
The neurology and neuropsychiatry of parietal damage
Professor Bob Rafal, University of Wales, Bangor

10.45 - 11.15 Coffee - Balcony and Winter Garden

11.15 - 11.45 Distinguishing between extinction and neglect in right hemisphere damage
Professor Hans-Otto Karnath, University of Tuebingen, Germany

11.45 - 12.15 The spatial and non-spatial functions of the parietal cortex
Dr Masud Husain, Imperial College London and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London

12.15 - 12.45 The Parietal Lobes and Consciousness
Dr Geraint Rees, Institute of Neurology, University College London

12.45 - 13.15 BNPA 2004 Prize giving followed by
Annual General Meeting - BNPA Members only

13.15 - 14.00 Lunch - Balcony and Winter Garden

Afternoon session - Consciousness -Introduced by Professor Michael Trimble Chairman: Dr Adam Zeman

14.00 - 14.30 The concept of consciousness
Dr Adam Zeman, University of Edinburgh

14.30 - 15.00 Conscious states, wakefulness, sleep, coma, the vegetative state and hypnosis
Dr Steven Laureys, University of Liege, Belgium

15.00 - 15.30 Conscious contents: change blindness, sensory experience and sensory substitution
Professor Kevin O'Regan, Laboratoire de Psychologie Experimentale, CNRS, University of Paris

15.30 - 16.00 The nature of consciousness
Professor Alva Noë, University of California, Berkeley

16.00 Close of Meeting and Tea

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