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LATIN-AMERICAN SUMMER SCHOOL ON EPILEPSY LASSE II

“EPILEPSY: INCREASING THE KNOWLEDGE AND DECREASING THE TREATMENT GAP”

07 Feb 2008

Morning session

• Welcome – Group formation – Research topic distribution
• LASSE-ALADE and the ILAE-Educational Program – Peter Wolf (Denmark – to be confirmed and Marco Tulio Medina – Honduras)
• Transcultural aspects of the neuropsychiatric disorders – Naomar Monteiro de Almeida Filho (Brazil)
• Epidemiology of the Epilepsies in Latin America – Carlos Acevedo (Chile)
Afternoon session
• History of Epilepsy Classification – Peter Wolf (Denmark – to be confirmed)
• Classification of epileptic seizures – Vera Terra Bustamante (Brazil)
• Classification of the epileptic syndromes – Americo Sakamoto (Brazil)
• History of neuroscience research – Marina Bentivoglio (Italy)

08 Feb 2008

Morning session
• Focal epilepsies – EEG-clinical correlation – Tonicarlo Velasco (Brazil)
• Generalizad epilepsies – EEG-clinical correlation - Elza Márcia Yacubian (Brazil)
• Imaging in epilepsies – Fernando Cendes (Brazil)
• Catastrophic epilepsies during childhood – M.C. Stefanini (Italy)
• West Syndrome – P. Campos Olazabal (Peru)Afternoon session
• Experimental Models/Basic mechanisms of the epilepsies – Giuliano Avanzini (Italy)/ Luiz Mello (Brazil)/ João Pereira Leite (Brazil)

09 Feb 2008

• Basic pharmacology – part 1 – Regina P. Markus (Brazil)
– part 2 - Teresa Dalla Costa

10 Feb 2008

Morning session

• Mechanism of actions of AEDs - G. Avanzini (Italy)
• Pharmacokinetics of AEDs - M. Bialer (Israel)
• Drug interactions in epilepsy - E Perucca (Italy)
Afternoon session
• Clinical drug development - E. Perucca (Italy)
• Evidence-based therapy? Clinical trials vs clinical practice -T. Tomson (Sweden)
• Journal club - G. Avanzini/E Perucca/T Tomson

11 Feb 2008

Morning session

• Spectrum of efficacy of AEDs - G. Avanzini (Italy)
• Adverse effects of AEDs E. Perucca (Italy)
• When to start treatment and how? -T. Tomson (Sweden)

Afternoon session

• Dose optimization and therapeutic drug monitoring - T. Tomson (Sweden)
• Seizure aggravation - E. Perucca (Italy)
• Interactive case discussions - G. Avanzini/E Perucca/T Tomson

12 Feb 2008

Morning session

• Infants and children - E. Perucca (Italy)
• Gender issues - T. Tomson (Sweden)
• The elderly - E. Perucca (Italy)

Afternoon session

• The neurobiological bases of AED resistance - Alberto Lazarowski (Argentina)
• Clinical management of refractory epilepsies -T. Tomson (Sweden)
• Acute repetive seizures and status epilepticus - T. Tomson (Sweden)
• Interactive case discussions - G. Avanzini/E Perucca/T Tomson

13 Feb 2008

Morning session

• Generic products of AEDs: Is it an issue? – M. Bialer (Israel)
• Are the adverse effects of phenobarbital overestimated? -T. Tomson (Sweden)
• Stopping AED treatment: When and how? - G. Avanzini (Italy)

Afternoon session

• Guidelines for drug therapy of the epilepsies – Carlos Guerreiro (Brazil)
• The AEDs of the future – M. Bialer (Israel)
• Alternative therapy in childhood epilepsies – Jaderson Costa da Costa (Brazil)

14 Feb 2008

Morning Session

• Neurocisticercosis and epilepsy – Marco Tulio Medina (Honduras)
• Constructing guidelines for the study of the epilepsies – Arturo Carpio (Ecuador)
• Development of the cerebral cortex and neuronal migration – Marina Bentivoglio (Italy)

Afternoon Session

• The normal and the pathologic hippocampal formation – Alexandre Valotta da Silva
• Genetic of the epilepsies – Iscia Cendes
15 Feb 2008

Morning session

• Surgically treatable epilepsies and surgical treatment gap in Latin America – Américo Sakamoto (Brazil)
• Localization of the epileptogenic zone by non-invasive methods – Silvia Kochen (Argentina)
• Advanced multimodality imaging in the evaluation of intractable epilepsies – Csaba Juhásh (EUA)
• Pathophysiology and management of infantile spasms – Harry Chugani (EUA)
• Epileptogenesis of cortical dysplasia – Gary Mathern (EUA)

Afternoon session

• Surgical approach to adulthood epilepsies: temporal lobe epilepsies – Ricardo Centeno (Brazil)
• Surgical approach to adulthood epilepsies: extratemporal epilepsies – Ney Azambuja (Brazil)
• Surgical approach to childhood epilepsies - Helio Machado (Brazil)
• Vagus nerve stimulation – Mario Alonso Vanegas (México)
• Future perspectives in the treatment of the epilepsies – Manuel Campos (Chile)

16 Feb 2008

Presentation and discussion of research projects

Adjourn