6th AMN Congress 2008

April 19-23, 2008

Date:
April 19-23, 2008
Time schedule
See the program below
Location:
Cluj-Napoca | România

Scientific Program

Day 1 | April 19th, 2008

13:00 - 16:00 Workshop 1 | Barbara Wilson (UK) | Neuropsychological Assessment and Management of People in States of Reduced Consciousness
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break
Plenary
Session I
Neurorecovery and neurorehabilitation - I | Chairpersons: Klaus von Wild (Germany), Anne-Lise Christensen (Denmark)
16:30 - 17:00Anne-Lise Christensen (Denmark) | Neurorecovery in Traumatic Brain Injury
17:00 - 17:30Barbara Wilson (UK) | Rehabilitation For People With Deficits in Executive Functioning
17:30 - 18:00Klaus von Wild (Germany) | Exemplary long term outcome in advanced age after severest TBI following multidisciplinary team approach. Case report and film
18:00 - 18:10Discussions
20:00Reception
20:30Presidential Dinner

Day 2 | April 20th, 2008

10:00 - 10:20Official Opening
10:30 - 11:15Honorary Lecture - Hari Shanker Sharma (Sweden) | Role Of Blood-Central Nervous System Barriers In Trauma Induced Behavioral Dysfunction
And Neurodegeneration
11:15 - 11:45Key Note Lecture - Dafin F. Muresanu (Romania) | Neuroprotection and Neuroplasticity - Two Aspects of a Continuous Process,
Genetically Regulated and Powered by Neurotrophic Factors
11:45 - 12:15Coffee Break
12:15 - 12:45Key Note Lecture - Nicole von Steinbüchel (Germany) | First results from an international assessment of health-related quality of life
in persons after traumatic brain injury with the Qolibri, a specific QOL measure after
12:45 - 13:00Discussions
13:00 - 14:15LUNCH
14:30 - 16:30Presidium's Board Meeting (15:00 - 16:00 - International Teleconference)
16:30- 17:00Coffee Break
Plenary
Session II
Neurorecovery and neurorehabilitation - II | Chairpersons: Claudio Perino (Italy), Was S. Poon (Hong Kong)
17:00 - 17:20Anca Buzoianu (Romania) | Neurotrophic factors - pharmacological mechanisms
17:20 - 17:40Claudio Perino (Italy) | Rivastigmine treatment in cognitive and behavioral deficits after T.B.I.
17:40 - 18:00Gelu Onose (Romania) | Complex Mathematical Statistic Analysis Regarding Neuroprotective And Consequent Neurorehabilitative Outcomes,
In Patients Treated With Modern Neurotrophic Drugs Cerebrolysin® Or/And Actovegin® - Preliminary Results
18:00 - 18:20Wai S. Poon (Hong Kong) | Cell therapy in Brain Injury
18:20 - 18:30Discussions
20:30Gala Dinner

Day 3 | April 21st, 2008

Plenary
Session III
Implication of Cognition in Neurorecovery | Chairpersons: Barbara Wilson (UK), David Mulholland (USA)
09:00- 09:20Barbara Wilson (UK) | Cognitive Rehabilitation in Twenty-First Century
09:20 - 09:40David Mulholland (USA) | I, the Case: The effects of Decreased Sensation following TBI
09:40 - 10:00Rotarescu Virginia (Romania) | Hypnosis can be a good option treatment, in spasticity?
10:00 - 10:10Discussions
10:10 - 10:40Coffee Break
Plenary
Session IV
New Trends in Neurosurgery | Chairpersons: Giorgio Burnelli (Italy), Kuo-Sheng Hung (Taiwan)
10:40 - 11:00Giorgio Burnelli (Italy) | Experimental neurotization of totaly avulsed brachial plexus by grafting from cortico-spinal tract (below T3):
a suggestion for bilateral brachial plexus avulsions or unilateral avulsion with paraplegia
11:00 - 11:20Horatiu Stan (Romania) | Reconstruction of skull defects with personalised cranioplasty plates
11:20 - 11:40Paul Prodan (Romania) | Experimental parietal osseous defect reconstruction using new types of biomaterials
11:40 - 12:00Cristina Chendreanu (Romania) | Our Experience Concerning The Interferential Medium Frequency Electrostimulation In The Treatment
Of Post Sci Neurogenic Bladder
12:00 - 12:10Discussions
12:10 - 13:30Lunch
Ebewe Pharma Symposia
13:30 - 14:00Bogdan Popescu (România) | Role of neurotrophines in the genomic response to cerebrovascular disease and brain trauma
14:00 - 14:30A.V. Ciurea (Romania) | Cerebrolysin ~ important therapeutic option to improve outcome in SBL
14:30 - 15:00Gelu Onse (Romania) | Complex Mathematical Statistic Analysis Regarding Neuroprotective And Consequent Neurorehabilitative Outcomes,
In Patients Treated With Neurotrophic Drug Cerebrolysin® - Preliminary Results
15:00 - 15:30Coffee Break
Plenary
Session V
Clinical aspects in neurosurgery | Chairpersons: A.V. Ciurea (România), Hans Tritthart (Austria)
15:30 - 15:50A.V. Ciurea (Romania) | Post-traumnatic Hydiocephalus in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (An Intracranial Pressure Monitoring Study)
15:50 - 16:10Silviu Albu (Romania) | Head Trauma: Hearing Loss and Dizziness
16:10 - 16:30Szabo Ioan (Romania) | Retained Intraorbital foreign bodies
16:30 - 16:50Hans Tritthart (Austria) | Withdrawing of life support in patients with severe brain injury ~ ethical considerations
16:50 - 17:00Discussions
17:00 - 17:30Coffee break
17:30 - 19:30AMN Members Meeting
20:30Gala Dinner

Day 4 | April 22nd, 2008

Plenary
Session VI
Clinical studies regarding prognosis in TBI | Chairpersons: Stefan Florian (Romania), Pieter Vos (Netherlands)
09:00 - 09:20Kuo-Sheng Hung (Taiwan) | Preventing Traumatic Brain Injuries - Lessons from Taiwan
09:20 - 09:40Stefan Florian (Romania) | A prognostic model for traumatic coma
09:40 - 10:00Pieter Vos (Netherlands) | Is it possible to predict favourable long-term recovery in the early phase after mild traumatic brain injury?
10:00 - 10:20Volker Homberg (Germany) | Does one hemisisphere help the other? The impact of contralesional activity to recovery
10:20 - 10:30Discussions
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
Plenary
Session VII
Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury | Chairpersons: Waih El Masry (UK), Rimantas Vilcinis (Lithuania)
11:00 - 11:20Waih El Masry (UK) | Special Characteristics and Management of Patients with Spinal Injuries
11:20 - 11:40Giorgio Brunelli (Italy) | Spinal Cord Repair by CNS PNS connection
11:40 - 12:00Rimantas Vilcinis (Lithuania) | Aggresive or Conservative Treatment after Traumatic Brain Injury : which is neuroprotective?
12:00 - 12:20Osama S. Abdelaziz (Egypt) | A Potentially New Pharmacological Therapy for Acute Spinal Cord Injury (ASCI):
Effects of Cerebrolysin Administration on Experimental ASCI
12:20 - 12:30Discussions
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 16:30Volker Homberg (Germany) | Workshop : Modular Motors Therapies in Neurological Disorders
20:30Farewell Party

AMN 2008
in numbers

19-23 April 2008
28 speakers
1 Workshop
7 Sessions

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