9th Annual Update Symposium on Clinical Neurology & Neurophysiology 2013

The Annual Update Symposium on Clinical Neurology & Neurophysiology is a conference that covers topics such as:

• Trypanosomiasis ("sleeping sickness")
• Neurologic infections of worldwide importance
• Herpes viruses etc
• Lyme disease
• Stroke & cerebrovascular disease
• Molecular imaging: new frontiers
• Endovascular treatment of acute stroke
• Acute stroke therapy
• Update on current clinical trials in stroke
• Stroke prevention and therapy
• Progressive myoclonic epilepsies around the world
• Autoimmune etiologies of epilepsy
• Status Epilepticus - new therapies
• Lessons learnt from AED pregnancy registries
• Update on recent novel anti-epileptic drugs
• Refractory Status Epilepticus in childhood
• Unusual video-EEG case presentations
• New stimulation methods in the treatment of epilepsy
• DATSCAN in the clinical work-up of the parkinsonian patient
• Molecular imaging in the crossroads of neurology and nuclear medicine
• ML-10: the first PET probe for clinical molecular imaging of apoptosis: from bench to the clinical practice
• Imaging of apoptosis in cerebral stroke: experience with Annexin-V
• PIB: paving the road to amyloid imaging in Alzheimer’s disease
• Clinical experience with ML-10, a small-molecule probe for apoptosis, for early detection of response of brain metastases to radiation therapy
• Florbetapir for molecular imaging of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease

The Annual Update Symposium on Clinical Neurology & Neurophysiology brings together neuroscientists, neurologists, gerontologists, general internists, physiatrists, psychiatrists, health professionals interested in patients with neurological disorders and anesthesiologists.