12th International Congress
12th international congress

Scientific Program

Program-at-a-Glance PDF

Sunday, June 22  |  Monday, June 23  |  Tuesday, June 24  |  Wednesday, June 25  |  Thursday, June 26

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
08:00 - 10:00 Plenary Session III
10:30 – 12:30 Plenary Session IV
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch and Posters
14:30 – 16:30 Parallel Sessions
17:00 – 19:00 How To Do It – Skills Workshops and Video Sessions
08:00 – 10:00 Plenary Session
5101: Plenary Session III: Presidential Lectures

Chair: Anthony E. Lang, Toronto, ON, Canada
Chair: Serge Przedborski, New York, NY, USA

08:00 Stanley Fahn Lecture
Susan B. Bressman, New York, NY, USA
08:30 Junior Award Lectures
09:00 C. David Marsden Lecture
The Basal Ganglia: Their Mysterious Functions Revisited

Ann M. Graybiel, Cambridge, MA, USA
09:30 Panel Discussion

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10:30 – 12:30 5102: Plenary Session IV: From bench to bedside: What’s new in hyperkinetic disorders

Chair: Andrew J. Lees, London, United Kingdom
Chair: Kathleen Shannon, Chicago, IL, USA

10:30 Ataxias
Thomas Klockgether, Bonn, Germany
11:00 Non-Huntington’s disease choreas
Russel Margolis, Baltimore, MD, USA
11:30 Myoclonus/Startle
Jose A. Obeso, Pamplona, Spain
114:00 Panel discussion

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12:30 – 14:30 Lunch and Posters

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14:30 – 16:30 Parallel Sessions
5201: Genetics of Parkinson’s disease: Dominant, recessive, complex associations including Gaucher’s disease

Chair: Nobutaka Hattori, Tokyo, Japan
Chair: Christine Klein, Lübeck, Germany

14:30 The dominant
Alexis Brice, Paris, France
15:00 The recessive
Christine Klein, Lübeck, Germany
15:30 The complex
Demetrius M. Maraganore, Rochester, MN, USA
16:00 Panel discussion

5202: Clinical trials in Parkinson’s disease

Chair: Karl D. Kieburtz, Rochester, NY, USA
Chair: Cristina Sampaio, Lisboa, Portugal

14:30 Clinical outcome measures and surrogate markers
Karl D. Kieburtz, Rochester, NY, USA
15:00 Design issues
Barbara Tilley, Charleston, SC, USA
15:30 What’s in the pipeline?
Anthony E. Lang, Toronto, ON, Canada
16:00 Panel discussion

5203: Frontotemporal lobar degeneration

Chair: Dennis W. Dickson, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Chair: Christine Van Broeckhoven, Antwerpen, Belgium

14:30 Clinical spectrum
Bradley F. Boeve, Rochester, MN, USA
15:00 Genetics of frontotemporal lobar degenerations
Christine Van Broeckhoven, Antwerpen, Belgium
15:30 Neuropathology of frontotemporal degenerations
Ian Mackenzie, Vancouver, BC, Canada
16:00 Panel discussion

5204: Teaching Course: Tics and stereotypies

Chair: Jonathan W. Mink, Rochester, NY, USA
Chair: Teresa Temudo, Porto, Portugal

14:30 Tourette’s syndrome
Roger M. Kurlan, Rochester, NY, USA
15:00 Rett’s syndrome
Teresa Temudo, Porto, Portugal
15:30 Movement Disorders in autistic children
Paul E. Greene, New York, NY, USA
16:00 Panel discussion

5205: Deep brain stimulation surgery meets neuropsychiatry

Chair: Marwan I. Hariz, London, United Kingdom
Chair: Andres M. Lozano, Toronto, ON, Canada

14:30 Abnormal behavior related to DBS
Pierre Pollak, Grenoble, France
15:00 Obsessive compulsive disorder and Tourette’s syndrome
Luc Mallet, Paris, France
15:30 Depression
Andres M. Lozano, Toronto, ON, Canada
16:00 Panel discussion

5206: Recent insights into Huntington’s disease

Chair: Paul Muchowski, San Francisco, CA, USA
Chair: Christopher A. Ross, Baltimore, MD, USA

14:30 Transcriptional dysregulation in Huntington’s disease
Dimitri Krainc, Charlestown, MA, USA
15:00 Protein quality control and degradation
Paul Muchowski, San Francisco, CA, USA
15:30 What observational studies (PHAROS and PREDICT) have told us about the course of Huntington’s disease and early features
Jane Paulsen, Iowa City, IA, USA
16:00 Panel discussion

5207: Speech and swallowing disorders in Parkinson's disease

Chair: Emily Wang, Chicago, IL, USA

14:30 Diagnosis and treatment of speech impairments in Parkinson’s disease
Lorraine Ramig, Boulder, CO, USA
15:00 Recent findings on pharmacological and surgical management of Parkinson’s disease on speech motor function
Emily Wang, Chicago, IL, USA
15:30 Diagnosis and treatment of swallowing disorders in Parkinson’s disease
David McFarland, Montreal, QC, Canada
16:00 Panel discussion

5208: Teaching Course: Vascular and post-hypoxic movement disorders

Chair: Vladimir Kostic, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Chair: Werner Poewe, Innsbruck, Austria

14:30 Vascular parkinsonism and gait disorders
Nir Giladi, Tel Aviv, Israel
15:00 Hyperkinetic movement disorders: Acute and delayed
Vladimir Kostic, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
15:30 Movement disorders due to global hypoxia / ischemia
Uday B. Muthane, Bangalore, India
16:00 Panel discussion

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17:00 – 19:00 How To Do It – Skills Workshops and Video Sessions

5301: How To Do It – Skills Workshop: Assessment of sleep disorders in the clinical practice of Movement Disorders
Birgit Högl, Innsbruck, Austria
Alex Iranzo, Barcelona, Spain

5302: How To Do It – Skills Workshop: Botulinum toxin: Specialized issues and applications

5303: How To Do It – Skills Workshop: How to recognize normal and abnormal movement in children 
Nardo Nardocci, Milano, Italy
Terence D. Sanger, Stanford, CA, USA

5304: How To Do It – Skills Workshop: The MDS-UPDRS: How to apply the new UPDRS in practice and research settings

Chair: Christopher G. Goetz, Chicago, IL, USA
Chair: Glenn T. Stebbins, Chicago, IL, USA

Part I: Background and development
17:00 Rationale of the MDS-UPDRS program
Stanley Fahn, New York, NY, USA
17:20 MDS-UPDRS
Christopher G. Goetz, Chicago, IL, USA
17:40 Clinimetric testing program results
Stephanie Shaftman, Charlestown, SC, USA
Part II: How-to-do exercises
18:00 Application of the MDS-UPDRS: Rating patient examples
Glenn T. Stebbins, Chicago, IL, USAA
18:30 Group discussion and final rating exercise

5305: How To Do It – Skills Workshop: Examining the ataxic patient
Tanja Schmitz-Hubsch, Bonn, Germany
S.H. Subramony, Jackson, MS, USA

5401: Video Session: Uncommon hyperkinetic Movement Disorders
Kailash P. Bhatia, London, United Kingdom
Yoshikazu Ugawa, Fukushima, Japan

5402: Video Session: Metals and movement disorders
Kapil D. Sethi, Augusta, GA, USA
Neeraj Kumar, Rochester, MN, USA

5403: Video Session: Movement disorder look-alikes (the Great Pretenders)
Aikaterini Kompoliti, Chicago, IL, USA
Philip D. Thompson, North Terrace, Adelaide, Australia

5404: Video Session: Gait disorders
Bastiaan R. Bloem, Nijmegen, Netherlands
John G. Nutt, Portland, OR, USA

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