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MDS-ES/EAN Sessions at EAN Congress



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).
MDS-ESEuropean Academy of Neurology



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Use the hashtag #MDSatEAN to share your experience at the EAN Congress. 


 


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
     

Special Session:
MDS-ES European Basal Ganglia Club

15:30 – 17:00 EEST • Main Auditorium
Chair: Christine Klein, Germany - Chair, MDS-European Section; Co-chair, Scientific Panel on Movement Disorders

C. David Marsden Award Lecture
Enza Maria Valente, Italy

Dystonia Europe David Marsden Award
Awardee to be announced

Video Case Session
Chairs: Iva Stankovic, Serbia – Chair, MDS-European Section Education Committee
Alessandro Tessitore, Italy - Co-chair, Scientific Panel on Movement Disorders

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. 

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