Movement Disorder Sessions at the 11th EAN Congress
Helsinki, Finland • June 21 - 24, 2025
The Following Sessions are offered in Partnership with the European Academy of Neurology (EAN).
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Day 1: Saturday, June 21, 2025
Focused Workshop:
Normal pressure hydrocephalus and Neurodegeneration: Two sides of the same coin?
8:30 - 10:00 EEST • Room Lisbon
Chair: Giovanni Palermo, Italy
Exploring the relationship between normal pressure hydrocephalus and neurodegenerative diseases:
- Clinical insights – Ville Leinonen, Finland
- Laboratory markers – Anastasia Bougea, Greece
- Imaging perspectives – Giovanni Palermo, Italy
Symposium:
New and Future Treatments of Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders
10:30 - 12:30 EEST • Main Auditorium
Chair: Wassilios Meissner, France
- Genetic status Update on Management of early-stage Parkinson's disease – Wassilios Meissner, France
- Update on management of advanced Parkinson’s Disease – Marina Picillo, Italy
- Future therapeutic strategies in Parkinson's disease – Joaquim J. Ferreira, Portugal
- Update on disease modifying treatments for atypical parkinsonian disorders – Iva Stankovic, Serbia
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Special Session: 15:30 – 17:00 EEST • Main Auditorium C. David Marsden Award Lecture Dystonia Europe David Marsden Award Video Case Session Video Cases to be announced. |
Day 2: Sunday, June 22, 2022
Case-based Workshop:
Surgical Treatment of Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease
15:30 - 17:00 EEST • Case-based Workshop Room
Chair: Maria Cruz Rodriquez Oroz, Spain
- Patient with advanced Parkinson’s Disease and motor complications (MRIgFUS candidate) – Maria Cruz Rodriquez Oroz, Spain
- Patient with advanced Parkinson’s Disease and motor complications (DBS candidate) – Patricia Limousin, United Kingdom
- Patient with advanced Parkinson’s disease who underwent STN DBS and presents with dyskinesia and impulse control disorder – Martijin Beudel, Netherlands
Teaching Course:
Update on Diagnosis and Treatment of Dystonia
15:30 - 18:45 EEST • Room Lisbon
Chair: Sylvia Boesch, Austria
- Classification of dystonias: The view of a clinician – Sylvia Boesch, Austria
- The genetic background of dystonias: Lessons from whole exom sequencing – Michael Zech, Germany
- When and what to test: A video-based flow chart – Elisabetta Indelicato, Austria
- Advances in the treatment of isolated and combined dystonias – Laura Cif, France
Day 3: Monday, June 23, 2025
Focused Workshop:
Update on Genetic Movement Disorders
8:30 - 10:00 EEST • Room Lisbon
Chair: Francesca Magrinelli, United Kingdom
- Recent insights into the genetic architecture of Parkinson's Disease – Joanne Trinh, Germany
- Update on hyperkinetic genetic movement disorders – Francesca Magrinelli, United Kingdom
- New repeat expansion disorders presenting with ataxia – Emil Gustavsson, United Kingdom
Controversy:
Are Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia Two Sides of the Same Coin?
15:30 - 16:15 EEST • Room Gothenburg
Chair: David Burn, United Kingdom
- PRO: Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia should be treated as a single disease entity – Atbin Djamshidian-Tehrani, Austria
- CON: Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia should be considered as independent diseases – Rimona Weil, United Kingdom
Interactive Session:
Emergencies in Movement Disorders
11:00 - 12:30 EEST • Room Oslo
Chair: Lars Wojtecki, Germany
- Hypokinetic and hyperkinetic movement disorders in the emergency room – Gary Álvrez Bravo, Spain
- Emergencies in device-aided therapies for movement disorders – Maria Fiorella Contarino, Netherlands
- Drug-induced movement disorders emergencies – Lars Wojtecki, Germany
Interactive Session:
Movement Disorders in Daily Practice
Coordinated by the MDS Young Members Group and EAN RRFS
15:30 - 17:00 EEST • Room Oslo
Chair: Michele Matarazzo, Spain
- Classical Hypokinetic Movement Disorders – Michele Matarazzo, Spain
- Classical Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders - Bruno Bergmans, Belgium
- Other Movement Disorders - Giorgia Sciacca, Italy
Submit a case for IAS faculty to share during the session.
Teaching Course:
How to Untangle the Diagnostic Complexity of Chorea
15:30 - 18:45 EEST • Main Auditorium
Chair: Alessio Di Fonzo, Italy
- Exploring the relationship between Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus and neurodegenerative diseases – Carlos Estevez-Fraga, Spain
- The Huntington's Disease Look-alike Syndromes – Alessio Di Fonzo, Italy
- Acquired Forms of Chorea – Beatrice Helm, Austria
- Chorea in Childhood – Miryam Carecchio, Italy
Day 4: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Hands On Course (BYO Laptop):
Neuroimaging in Movement Disorders
8:30 - 10:00 EEST • HOC Room
Chair: Thilo van Eimeren, Germany
- Neuroimaging in Parkinsonism - Thilo van Eimeren, Germany
- Neuroimaging in Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders - Elisabetta Sarasso, Italy
- Neuroimaging in Ataxia - Bart van de Warrneburg, Netherlands
MDS members are invited to use the hashtag #MDSatEAN to share their experience at the EAN Congress.
Visit the 11th EAN Congress Website for additional information or to register.
