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 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | ||
Plenary Session I | Neurorecovery and neurorehabilitation - I | Chairpersons: Klaus von Wild (Germany), Anne-Lise Christensen (Denmark) | ||
16:30 - 17:00 | Anne-Lise Christensen (Denmark) | Neurorecovery in Traumatic Brain Injury | ||
17:00 - 17:30 | Barbara Wilson (UK) | Rehabilitation For People With Deficits in Executive Functioning | ||
17:30 - 18:00 | Klaus von Wild (Germany) | Exemplary long term outcome in advanced age after severest TBI following multidisciplinary team approach. Case report and film | ||
18:00 - 18:10 | Discussions | ||
20:00 | Reception | ||
20:30 | Presidential Dinner |
Day 2 | April 20th, 2008
10:00 - 10:20 | Official Opening | ||
10:30 - 11:15 | Honorary Lecture - Hari Shanker Sharma (Sweden) | Role Of Blood-Central Nervous System Barriers In Trauma Induced Behavioral Dysfunction And Neurodegeneration | ||
11:15 - 11:45 | Key Note Lecture - Dafin F. Muresanu (Romania) | Neuroprotection and Neuroplasticity - Two Aspects of a Continuous Process, Genetically Regulated and Powered by Neurotrophic Factors | ||
11:45 - 12:15 | Coffee Break | ||
12:15 - 12:45 | Key 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 - 13:00 | Discussions | ||
13:00 - 14:15 | LUNCH | ||
14:30 - 16:30 | Presidium's Board Meeting (15:00 - 16:00 - International Teleconference) | ||
16:30- 17:00 | Coffee Break | ||
Plenary Session II | Neurorecovery and neurorehabilitation - II | Chairpersons: Claudio Perino (Italy), Was S. Poon (Hong Kong) | ||
17:00 - 17:20 | Anca Buzoianu (Romania) | Neurotrophic factors - pharmacological mechanisms | ||
17:20 - 17:40 | Claudio Perino (Italy) | Rivastigmine treatment in cognitive and behavioral deficits after T.B.I. | ||
17:40 - 18:00 | Gelu 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 - 18:20 | Wai S. Poon (Hong Kong) | Cell therapy in Brain Injury | ||
18:20 - 18:30 | Discussions | ||
20:30 | Gala Dinner |
Day 3 | April 21st, 2008
Plenary Session III | Implication of Cognition in Neurorecovery | Chairpersons: Barbara Wilson (UK), David Mulholland (USA) | ||
09:00- 09:20 | Barbara Wilson (UK) | Cognitive Rehabilitation in Twenty-First Century | ||
09:20 - 09:40 | David Mulholland (USA) | I, the Case: The effects of Decreased Sensation following TBI | ||
09:40 - 10:00 | Rotarescu Virginia (Romania) | Hypnosis can be a good option treatment, in spasticity? | ||
10:00 - 10:10 | Discussions | ||
10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee Break | ||
Plenary Session IV | New Trends in Neurosurgery | Chairpersons: Giorgio Burnelli (Italy), Kuo-Sheng Hung (Taiwan) | ||
10:40 - 11:00 | Giorgio 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 - 11:20 | Horatiu Stan (Romania) | Reconstruction of skull defects with personalised cranioplasty plates | ||
11:20 - 11:40 | Paul Prodan (Romania) | Experimental parietal osseous defect reconstruction using new types of biomaterials | ||
11:40 - 12:00 | Cristina Chendreanu (Romania) | Our Experience Concerning The Interferential Medium Frequency Electrostimulation In The Treatment Of Post Sci Neurogenic Bladder | ||
12:00 - 12:10 | Discussions | ||
12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||
Ebewe Pharma Symposia | |||
13:30 - 14:00 | Bogdan Popescu (România) | Role of neurotrophines in the genomic response to cerebrovascular disease and brain trauma | ||
14:00 - 14:30 | A.V. Ciurea (Romania) | Cerebrolysin ~ important therapeutic option to improve outcome in SBL | ||
14:30 - 15:00 | Gelu Onse (Romania) | Complex Mathematical Statistic Analysis Regarding Neuroprotective And Consequent Neurorehabilitative Outcomes, In Patients Treated With Neurotrophic Drug Cerebrolysin® - Preliminary Results | ||
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break | ||
Plenary Session V | Clinical aspects in neurosurgery | Chairpersons: A.V. Ciurea (România), Hans Tritthart (Austria) | ||
15:30 - 15:50 | A.V. Ciurea (Romania) | Post-traumnatic Hydiocephalus in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (An Intracranial Pressure Monitoring Study) | ||
15:50 - 16:10 | Silviu Albu (Romania) | Head Trauma: Hearing Loss and Dizziness | ||
16:10 - 16:30 | Szabo Ioan (Romania) | Retained Intraorbital foreign bodies | ||
16:30 - 16:50 | Hans Tritthart (Austria) | Withdrawing of life support in patients with severe brain injury ~ ethical considerations | ||
16:50 - 17:00 | Discussions | ||
17:00 - 17:30 | Coffee break | ||
17:30 - 19:30 | AMN Members Meeting | ||
20:30 | Gala Dinner |
Day 4 | April 22nd, 2008
Plenary Session VI | Clinical studies regarding prognosis in TBI | Chairpersons: Stefan Florian (Romania), Pieter Vos (Netherlands) | ||
09:00 - 09:20 | Kuo-Sheng Hung (Taiwan) | Preventing Traumatic Brain Injuries - Lessons from Taiwan | ||
09:20 - 09:40 | Stefan Florian (Romania) | A prognostic model for traumatic coma | ||
09:40 - 10:00 | Pieter Vos (Netherlands) | Is it possible to predict favourable long-term recovery in the early phase after mild traumatic brain injury? | ||
10:00 - 10:20 | Volker Homberg (Germany) | Does one hemisisphere help the other? The impact of contralesional activity to recovery | ||
10:20 - 10:30 | Discussions | ||
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | ||
Plenary Session VII | Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury | Chairpersons: Waih El Masry (UK), Rimantas Vilcinis (Lithuania) | ||
11:00 - 11:20 | Waih El Masry (UK) | Special Characteristics and Management of Patients with Spinal Injuries | ||
11:20 - 11:40 | Giorgio Brunelli (Italy) | Spinal Cord Repair by CNS PNS connection | ||
11:40 - 12:00 | Rimantas Vilcinis (Lithuania) | Aggresive or Conservative Treatment after Traumatic Brain Injury : which is neuroprotective? | ||
12:00 - 12:20 | Osama S. Abdelaziz (Egypt) | A Potentially New Pharmacological Therapy for Acute Spinal Cord Injury (ASCI): Effects of Cerebrolysin Administration on Experimental ASCI | ||
12:20 - 12:30 | Discussions | ||
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | ||
13:30 - 16:30 | Volker Homberg (Germany) | Workshop : Modular Motors Therapies in Neurological Disorders | ||
20:30 | Farewell Party |