2006 Meeting

Our next meeting will be held as follows:

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Date: 9/10 February 2006
Venue: The Institute of Child Health, London (click here for map)
Topics:

Thursday 9th February BNPA Annual Meeting

0900-1000 Registration and Coffee

Morning Session - SLEEP - Chairman: Adam Zeman

1000-1030 The evolution and function of sleep (why do we sleep?)
Jim Horne (UK)

1030-1100 Insomnia and the psycho-pharmacology of sleep
Sue Wilson (UK)

1100-1130 Coffee - Balcony and Winter Garden

1130-1200 Narcolepsy and excessive day time sleepiness
Paul Reading (UK)

1200-1245 Parasomnias, Instinctual Behaviours and the Neuropsychiatry of Dream-Enactment
Carlos Schenck (USA)

1245-1400 Lunch - Balcony and Winter Gardens


Afternoon Session - SLEEP cont./…Neuropsychiatry of Schizophrenia

Chairman: Hugh Rickards

1400-1430 Linking genes to structural MRI in schizophrenia
Colm McDonald (Eire)

1430-1500 Brain changes in the transition to psychosis
Stephen Lawrie (UK)

1500-1530 Tea - Balcony and Winter Garden

1530-1600 The neuropsychology of dreams
Marc Solms (SA)

1600-1645 BNPA Guest Lecture Introduced by Adam Zeman

Corticosteroids, stress and the brain - How glucocorticoids, their receptors and their metabolism in the brain affects cognition with ageing
Jonathan Seckl (UK)

1645-1800 Cheese and Wine reception in the Winter Garden


Friday 10th February

0900-1000 Registration and Coffee

Morning Session - Neuropsychiatry of Schizophrenia cont. Plus: Members' Papers Chairman: Tony David

1000-1040 Plenary Lecture: Signatures of neuropsychological impairment in schizophrenia: what do they tell us?
Philip Harvey (USA)

1040-1050 Cognitive Change in Sporadic and Familial ALS
Paul Wicks, Institute of Psychiatry

1050-1100 The mechanism of pramipexole-induced excessive daytime sleepiness.
Elemer Szabadi, University of Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham

1100-1110 Autoimmune limbic encephalitis with negative voltage-gated potassium channel antibodies
Shanika Samarasekera, UK

1110-1120 Schizotypy and movement disorder:neurobiological insights into schizophrenia from observations in patients with Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
Andrea Cavanna, Turin, Italy

1120-1130 New Dimensions of sleep in schizophrenia
Andrej Ilankovic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

1130-1200 Coffee - Balcony and Winter Garden

Members' Papers cont. Chairman: Ray Dolan

1200-1210 Cognitive substrate to catatonia symptoms: evidence from the first empirical assessment of catatonic symptoms in Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome
Hugo Critchley, Institute of Neurology, London

1210-1220 Catatonia, Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders
Padmaja Chalasani, Liverpool

1220-1230 A neuropsychiatry assessment service for neurology inpatients
Kate Jefferies, UK

1230-1240 The prevalence of functional movement disorders and non epileptic attack disorders
Udo Wieshmann, The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Liverpool

1240-1250 Scottish neurological symptoms study
Alan Carson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

1250-1300 The influence of encephalitis lethargica on concepts of hysteria,1917-1935
Christopher Ward, Derby City General Hospital, Derby


1300-1330 BNPA 2005 Annual General Meeting - BNPA Members only

1300-1400 Lunch - Balcony and Winter Garden

Afternoon Session - Functional Movement Disorders Chairman - Laura Goldstein

1400-1440 Neurophysiology of psychogenic motor disorder
Günther Deuschl (D)

1440-1510 Functional weakness
Jon Stone (UK)

1510-1540 Management of medically unexplained motor disorders
Christopher Bass (UK)

1540-1615 Keynote: The History of Hysterical Paralysis

Historian - Ned Shorter (Canada)

1615-1630 BNPA 2005 Prize Giving

1630-1700 Close of meeting and Tea