| Time |
Title |
| 7am to 8am |
Registration and morning coffee |
Plenary Session II
Chairs: A. Covanis , N. Kissani, Habahbeh, T. Tomson |
| 8am to 8.30am |
Variability of absence seizures and syndromes in infancy and childhood (A. Covanis, Greece) |
| 8.30am to 9am |
History of Neuroscience and epilepsy in Arab world (N. Kissani, Morocco) |
| 9am to 9.30am |
Frequency and Stratification of Epileptogenic Lesions in Elderly Patients with New Onset Seizures (M.R Arabi, Kuwait) |
| 9.30am to 10am |
Misdiagnosis of epilepsy - the Jordanian experience (M. Habahbeh, Jordan) |
| 10am to 10.30am |
SUDEP: Incidence, risk factors and prevention (T. Tomson, Sweden) |
| 10.30am to 10.45am |
Panel discussionand coffee break |
| 10.45am to 11.30am |
Debate |
Chairs: A. Ashkanany, M. Brodie, S. Shorvon, A. Al-Jishi
Seizure treatment - Polytherapy? Monotherapy? (A. Beydoun, Lebanon vs T. Saadi
UAE) |
| 11.30am to 12.30pm |
Presidential Lecture |
Chairs: T. Saadi , R. Al Baradie, M. Brodie, S. Shorvon
Treating epilepsy in the future: novel AEDs in clinical development (E.
Perucca, Italy)
|
| 12.30pm to 1.30pm |
Lunch break |
Workshops
1.30pm to 2.30pm |
| Room A |
Semiology, Video sessions (B. Abu Khalil, USA) |
| Room B |
Management of SE (S. Shorvon, United Kingdom / B. Mesraoua, Qatar) |
| Room C |
Surgically remediable epilepsies (A. Ayad, Qatar / M. Najjar, Lebanon) |
| Room D |
Epilepsy Treatment (E. Perucca, Italy / M Brodie, UK) |
| Room E |
Psychogenic Seizures (E. Beghi, Italy / S. Wilkins, Qatar) |
Plenary session III
Neurosurgery, Neuroradiology
Chairs: G. Al Sulaiti, M. Najjar, F. Al Otaibi, B. Schuknecht |
| 2.30pm to 3pm |
Epilepsy Surgery: Qatar’s Experience (G. Al Sulaiti, Qatar) |
| 3pm to 3.30pm |
Functional Hemispherotomy and Disconnection Surgery in Epilepsy (F. Al Otaibi, Saudi Arabia) |
| 3.30pm to 4pm |
Memory before and after surgery for temporal lobe epilepsy (H.G Wieser, Switzerland) |
| 4pm to 4.30pm |
Cortical Dysplasias and other migrational abnormalities in epilepsy (B. Schuknecht, Switzerland) |
| 4.30pm to 5pm |
Coffee break and guided poster tour |
Poster session chairs: G. Melikyan, F. Faysal, K. Hisham, D. Deleu |
Plenary session III (continued)
Epilepsy: clinical, neurophysiology
Chairs: G. Alorcon, P. Boon, B. Uthman, L. Streletz |
| 5pm to 5.30pm |
Ictal laughter, ictal crying, ictal pain: etiology and semiological value (Ali A. Asadi-Pooya, United States) |
| 5.30pm to 6pm |
Withdrawing Antiepileptic Drugs: EEG and Other Considerations (B. Uthman, Qatar) |
| 6pm to 6.30pm |
Neurophysiological assessment of the epilepsies, innovative approaches (P. Boon, Belgium) |
| 6.30pm to 7pm |
Advances in electrical stimulation for epilepsy (G. Alarcon,Qatar) |
| 7pm to 7.30pm |
How to Distinguish Epileptogenic Epileptiform Discharges and Benign Epileptiform Patterns (L.J Streletz, Qatar) |
| Closing remarks |
