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Preliminary Program for the 2009 ECNS-ISNIP Conference

Atlanta, GA, Sept 9-13, 2009
Subject to Change

Wednesday, September 9

Clinical Training Workshop: CEU awarded  per workshop:                   $75.00 per workshop

(These training workshops are intended to offer basic orientation/training information and skills for general knowledge and/or as prep for taking examinations- these workshop will provide direct demonstration of acquisition and analyses techniques)

  • intended to offer basic orientation/training information and skills for general knowledge and/or as preparation for taking examinations
  • will provide direct demonstration of acquisition and analyses techniques
    1. Basic Clinical EEG  - 9:00 - 12 noon – Nash Boutros, MD
    2. Basic Overview of Evoked Potentials – 9:00 - 12 noon – David S. Cantor, Ph.D.
    3. Essentials of Psychopharmacology – 9:00 - 12noon – Evidence Based Medicine for Psychopharmacology Decision Making in Clinical Practice – Dr. Randall Tackett
    4. Basics of qEEG  & LORETA – 1:30 - 4:30 pm – Lukasz Konopka, Ph.D.
    5. Basics of Neurotherapy Techniques (Neurofeedback, LENS, AVE) – 1:30 - 4:30 pm – Richard Soutar, Ph.D.

Clinical EEG Journal Board Meeting: 12 noon – 1 pm

ECNS Council Meeting:  1 pm – 4pm

5:00 pm – Welcoming and Notes – Ivan Bodis-Wollner

Opening Keynote Lecture #1 - TBA

5:45 pm – Music Program & Buffet

Thursday, September 10

8:00- 8:30 a.m.  – Keynote Lecture 
Speaker: Mahlon DeLong,MD  (Timmie Professor of Neurology Emory University, Atlanta )
Topic: Neuronal Circuits and Circuit Disorders.

8:30 – 10:00 – Invited Symposium #1
Deep Brain Stimulation for Neurologic and Neuropsychiatric Disorders
Chair: M. DeLong ,Emory University, Atlanta

  1. “DBS for Parkinson’s-Effects on Mood and Cognition”
    Michael Okun  M.D. (Univ. Florida, Gainesville)
  2. “DBS for Treatment Resistant Depression”
    Helen Mayberg M.D. (Emory)
  3. “Mechanisms of Action of DBS”
    Jerold Vitek M.D. (Cleveland Clinic)

8:30-10:00 – Accepted Workshop #1
QEEG interpretation: Review of models and the 2-dimensional EEG Vigilance – Brainrate model
Martijn Arns (presenter), Werner van den Bergh & Jay Gunkelman

This workshop will review the different approaches to QEEG interpretation such as ‘Technology driven approaches’, the EEG Vigilance model (Bente, 1964), the EEG Phenotype model (Johnstone, Gunkelman & Lunt, 2005) and will also touch upon sleep-wake stages as reflected in the EEG. Data from a series of scientific studies aiming at validating these models will be presented and an overview from the current literature will be presented demonstrating the strengths and weaknesses of these models, resulting in a proposed new model incorporating and extending the previous models, which are also consistent with the data and the literature. The workshop will address QEEG interpretation for Personalized Medicine applications such as predicting medication outcome, neurofeedback and rTMS treatment.

10:00 - 10:20 - Coffee Break

10:20 – 11.50 a.m. – Invited Symposium #2  
Understanding frontal lobe functions in Parkinson disease through functional imaging.
Chairs:  A.Strafella and Ivan Bodis-Wollner

  1. “Dopamine, Reward, and Frontostriatal Circuitry in Impulse Control Disorders in Parkinson's disease: Insights from Functional Imaging"
    A.Strafella: (U.Toronto)
  2. “fMRI studies of function and dysfunction of executive processing in PD.”
    O.Monchi  (U.Montreal):
  3. "The frontal eye fields in PD: an fMRI perspective."
    Bodis-Wollner: (SUNY Brooklyn)
  4. "The cognitive circuit of Parkinson Disease"
    D.Eidelberg: (NYU Feinstein Inst New York)

11:50 – 12:30 pm – Poster Review #1

12:30 pm – 2 pm – Lunch

2:00-2:30 pm – ISNIP Presidential Lecture – Thomas Dierks

2:30- 3:00 pm–  Keynote Presentation
Organization of cell assemblies by oscillations
György Buzsáki, M.D., Ph.D.
Board of Governors Professor
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers University NJ

3:00 -4:30 pm: Paper Presentations: Section #1

  1. 40 Hz oscillations (LORETA source analysis): male/female differences in depression, mania schizophrenia and controls.  Flor-Henry, P. Lind, J., Koles, Z. Alberta Hospital Edmonton, Dept. of Psychiatry and Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

3:00-4:30 pm: Paper Presentations: Session #2

4:45 – 5:30: - Poster Review #2

6:30 – Dinner/Entertainment Options

Friday, September 11

8:00-8:30 – Keynote Lecture:
ECNS Presidential Lecture – Ivan Bodis- Wollner

8:30 – 10:00 Invited Symposium #3
TOPIC: QEEG Application in the Assessment and Monitoring Treatment of Childhood Disorders
Chair:  David S. Cantor, Ph.D. – Psychological Sciences Institute, PC, Atlanta

  1. Quantitative EEG Discriminant Functions Between Normal Function and Childhood Disorders
    Robert Chabot, Ph.D.- NYU Medical Center
  2. Quantitative EEG Evaluations of Childhood Disorders Including Measures of Cross- Frequency Phase Synchrony and the Development of EEG Phase Reset
    Robert Thatcher, Ph.D. – VSA Medical Center, Tampa, FL
  3. Viral Etiologies for Selected Neuropsychiatric Disorders:
    Roulette Smith, Ph.D.- Institute for Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Studies, Palo Alto, CA
  4. The Role of Xenobiotic Agents in EEG Disconnectivity in Autism
    David S. Cantor, Ph.D. – Psychological Sciences Institute, PC, Atlanta

10:00- 10:20 a.m. – Coffee Break

10:20- 11:50 am. Invited Symposium #4

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 pm – Poster Session #2

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm – Lunch

2:00 – 3:30 pm – Papers #3

2:00 –3:30 pm –  Posters #3

3:30 – 4:30 pm – ECNS Business Meeting

4:30 – 5:30 pm – ISNIP Business Meeting

6:30 – 9:00 Joint Annual Dinner & Awards Presentation

Saturday, September 12

8:00-8:30 pm – Keynote speaker #4

8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Invited Symposium #5:
TOPIC: Processing Emotions in Anxiety and Mood Disorders: ERP and Neuroimaging Findings
Chair: S. Galderisi, Ph.D. (University of Naples, Naples, Italy)

  1. Anxious arousal and ERP components.
    Aminda O’Hare, Ph.D. (University of Kansas, USA)
  2. ERP indices of emotional processing in depression.
    Avram Holmes, Ph.D. (Harvard University, USA)
  3. ERP Indices of involuntary emotional processing in anxiety and mood disorders.
    Armida Mucci, Ph.D. (university of Naples SUN, Naples, IT)
  4. ERP indices of emotional processing in social anxiety.
    Jason S. Moser, Ph.D. (University of Delaware, Newark, DE)

10:00-10:20 a.m.  – Coffee Break

10:20 – 11:50 a.m. – E. Roy John Memorial Lecture – Dr. Leslie Prichep
TOPIC: E. Roy John: Neuroscience Legacy

11:50 a.m. – 12:30 – Exhibitor time

12:30-2:00 pm – Lunch

2:00 – 3:30 pm Symposium #6:
TOPIC: Neurofeedback and Stimulation Therapies
Chair: Cory Hammond, Ph.D.- University of Utah, Salt Lake City

  1. Investigational Applications of Neurofeedback & Areas for Research
    Cory Hammond, Ph.D. – University of Utah, Salt Lake City
  2. The Coordinated Allocation of Resource Model (CAR); TBI And Neurofeedback
    Kirt Thornton, Ph.D., Center for Health Psychology, South Plainfield, NJ
  3. Research Update: Neurofeedback with ADHD & Learning Disabilities
    Noland White, Ph.D. – Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA
  4. Distinctively Unique Neurofeedback: The Low Energy Neurofeedback System
    Cory Hammond, Ph.D. – University of Utah, Salt Lake City

3:30 -5:00 – Symposium #7

Sunday, September 13

Vendors will be providing free workshop to participants to offer then an opportunity to learn about the products and their use in clinical practice and research.

8:30-10:00 –Vendor Workshop 1: Robert Thatcher, Ph.D. Neuroguide

10:00-10:15 pm- Coffee Break

10:15 – 11:45 pm Vendor Workshop 2: Robert Isenhart, BrainDx

11:45-12:30 pm Lunch

12:30-2:00 – Vendor Workshop 3: (TBA)

2:00 -3:30 – vendor Workshop 4: (TBA)

 

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