2005 Meeting

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Date:	9th - 11th February 2005
Venue:	The Institute of Child Health, London (click here for map)
Topics:	Final PROGRAMME download here in pdf or word format Wednesday 9th February in association with the INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY 0900-1000 Registration and Coffee 1000-1005 Welcome - Professor Anthony David, Chairman, BNPA Morning Session - Dementia - from Local to Global - Chairman: Professor Michael Trimble 1005-1035 Where is dementia in English Health Policy? Dr Andy Barker, National Adviser to the Department of Health on the Elderly 1035-1105 The epidemiology of dementia. Professor Bert Hofman, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam 1105-1130 Coffee - Balcony and Winter Garden Chairman: Professor A Lishman (Hon Life President, BNPA) 1130-1200 Impact of Charities on Research and Policy Professor Clive Ballard, Guy's Campus, London & Alzheimer's Disease Society 1200-1230 Access to care in dementia and impact on carers Professor Sube Banerjee, Institute of Psychiatry, London 1230-1400 Lunch - Balcony and Winter Garden Afternoon Session Chairman - Chairman: Prof Simon Lovestone 1400-1430 Dementia in the developing world Professor Martin Prince, Institute of Psychiatry, London 1430-1500 Management of psychiatric symptoms and behavioural disturbances in dementia Professor Alistair Burns, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester 1500-1515 General Discussion 1515-1545 Tea - Balcony and Winter Garden 1545-1625 Plenary Lecture: Impact of brain damage on functioning in the real world Professor Donald Stuss, University of Toronto, Canada 1715-1845 GlaxoSmithKline Advanced Lectures on Clinical and Experimental Neurology: "Dementia", Wolfson Lecture Theatre, National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, Queen Square. Cognitive neuropsychology of orbito-frontal function and anterior medial temporal function and its implications for dementia. Vascular cognitive impairment: Professor R Dolan (UCL) Thursday 10th February BNPA Annual Meeting 0900-1000 Registration and Coffee Morning Session - The Neuropsychiatry of the Dementias - Chairman: Dr Adam Zeman 1000-1030 Biological risk factors for dementia Professor Bert Hofman, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam 1030-1100 The neuropsychology of focal dementias Professor John Hodges, University of Cambridge 1100-1130 Coffee - Balcony and Winter Garden 1130-1200 MRI in dementia Dr Nick Fox, Institute of Neurology, London 1200-1230 Non-Alzheimer's dementia - biology, neuropsychiatry and treatment Professor Clive Ballard, Guy's Campus, London & Alzheimer's Disease Society 1230-1300 Current treatment approaches to dementia: an update Professor Alistair Burns, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester 1300-1400 Lunch - Balcony and Winter Gardens Afternoon Session - Catatonia - Chairman: Dr Hugh Rickards 1400-1430 History of Catatonia Professor Max Fink, University of New York, USA 1430-1500 Catatonia and the brain - a clinical perspective Dr Danny Rogers, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol 1500-1530 Tea - Balcony and Winter Garden 1530-1600 Basal ganglia function Mr Pundeet Plaha, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol 1600-1650 BNPA Guest Lecture - Introduced by Professor John Hodges Humour, social understanding and the frontal lobes Professor Donald Stuss, University of Toronto, Canada 1650-1800 Cheese and Wine reception in the Winter Garden Friday 11th February 0900-1000 Registration and Coffee Morning Session - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Members' Papers Chairman: Dr Goldstein 1000-1030 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - Grown Up Professor Eric Taylor, Institute of Psychiatry 1030-1040 Neuropsychological deficits in adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Do they improve with age? Jessica Bramham, Susan Young, Robin Morris, Philip Asherson, Brian Toone Institute of Psychiatry 1040-1050 Does methylphenidate ameliorate attention difficulties in adults with ADHD? Dolores Polo, Danny Rogers, Stuart Butler Burden Neurological Institute, Bristol 1050-1100 Divided attention in Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment T M Dannhauser, S Shergill, Z Walker, M Seal, T Stevens, L Lee The Mental Health Unit, St Margaret's Hospital, Epping 1100-1110 Physiological correlates of the early degeneration of the locus coeruleus in Alzheimer's disease E Szabadi, C M Bradshaw University of Nottingham 1110-1120 Knowledge of living, nonliving and "sensory quality" categories in semantic dementia Erin Carroll, Peter Garrard Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 Queen Square 1120-1150 Coffee - Balcony and Winter Garden Members' Papers Chairman: Dr Danny Rogers 1150-1200 Efficacy of psychotropic agents in the treatment of aggression after acquired brain injury John Freeland, Alexandra Leonard, Andrew James, Catherine Derbyshire, Miles Rogish, Jacqueline Woods and Stephen Shaw York House, The Retreat, York. 1200-1210 Cortical localisation of neuropsychological imapriment in ALS: An [11C] Flumazenil PET study P Wicks, M R Turner, S Abrahams, A hammers, D J Brooks, P N Leigh, L H Goldstein Institute of Psychiatry 1210-1220 A case of blind imagination? Adam Zeman, Lorna Torrens, Sergio Della Sala, Robert Logie University of Edinburgh 1220-1230 Empathic ability in Asperger's Syndrome E Lawrence, P Shaw, A David Institute of Psychiatry 1230-1240 A tangled genius Peter Garrard, Arnab Majumdar Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 Queen Square 1245-1315 BNPA 2005 Annual General Meeting - BNPA Members only 1230-1400 Lunch - Balcony and Winter Garden Friday 11th February Cont./……. Afternoon session - Asperger's Syndrome. Chairman: Professor David Skuse 1400-1430 Asperger's Syndrome in adult life Professor Digby Tantam, University of Sheffield 1430-1500 The Machine in the Ghost: Science in Search of the Self Dr Paul Broks, University of Plymouth 1500-1530 Film/Mark Haddon: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time". 1530-1600 Keynote: When you can't kiss it better Charlotte Moore, Journalist and Author of "George & Sam: Autism in the Family" 1600-1615 BNPA 2005 Prize Giving 1615-1630 Close of meeting and Tea