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Program

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WFN RG ADCD MEETING, VIANA - PROGRAM, Stand: 10 Sept 2018

 

 

Saturday, 29/9/2018

In the morning: optional guided tour of Viana

 

3-3.30pm Opening

3.30-4pm – Carlo Semenza, Padova - In memoriam ANNA BASSO

 

4-5.30pm - Social cognition: from neuroimaging to neurorehabilitation

Facundo Manes, Buenos Aires – State of the art in the neuroscience of social cognition.

Cesar Lima, Lisbon -  The neurocognition of vocal emotional communication.

Alejandro Garcia Caballero, Ourense – How to transform social cognition into a game… and not perish.

 

6.30pm – Welcome reception

 

 

Sunday, 30/9/2018

9.30-11.30am - Education, literacy & brain function: from neuroscience to political implications

Alexandre Castro Caldas, Lisbon – Literacy, brain and cognition.

Suvarna Alladi, Bangalore – Education, cognitive reserve and dementia.

Thomas Bak, Edinburgh – Sex, drugs and bilingualism: empirical evidence versus implicit assumptions.

Facundo Manes, Buenos Aires – How neuroscience can inform public policies.

 

11.30am-12.00noon - Coffee

 

12.00noon-1pm – POSTER SESSION

 

1-2.30pm - Lunch

 

2.30-4.30pm - Disorders of spatial & visual cognition

Laura Pisella, Lyon – Spatial vision in Posterior Cortical Atrophy

Keir Yong, London – Functional consquences of dementia-related visual impairment

Jan Laczo, Prague – Spatial navigation impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease

 

4.30-5pm - Coffee

 

5pm-5.30pm Associated talk: Adam Zeman – visual imagery

 

 

Monday, 1/10/2018

 

9.30-11.00am – Cognitive disorders beyond stroke and neurodegeneration

Adam Zeman, Exeter – Transient Epileptic Amnesia.

Catherine Belin, Paris – Cognitive consequences of cancer therapies.

Andrew Kertesz, London, Ontario – Persistent post-concussive syndrome: a iatrogenic epidemic?

 

11-11.30am - Coffee

 

 

 

11.30am–1pm - Bilingualism, language & dementia: from epidemiology to intervention

Suvarna Alladi, Bangalore – Bilingualism, stroke and dementia.

Mariana Vega-Mendoza, Edinburgh – Learning Foreign Languages as a cognitive intervention in dementia.

Anne-Marie Ergis, Paris – The multiple benefits of artistic interventions in Alzheimer’s Disease.

 

1.00-2.30pm - Lunch

 

2.30am-4.30pm - Beyond the standard batteries: novel assessment tools in dementias

Carlo Semenza, Padua – Anatomical substrates and cognitive predictors of financial abilities in MCI.

Freedman Morris, Toronto – Object Alternation: a novel probe of medial frontal function in FTD.

Mustafa Seckin, Munich – The Utility of Repeat and Point Test in PPA: Experience from German FTLD Consortium.

Annalena Venneri, Sheffield – Semantic memory assessment for detection of preclinical AD

 

4.30-5pm – Coffee

 

 

7pm – Departure for dinner

 

 

Tuesday, 2/10/2018

 

9.30-11am - Aphasia in the context of stroke and neurodegeneration

Reza Nilipour, Tehran – Clinical utility of aphasia assessment: implications for rehabilitation.

Loraine Obler, New York – Lexical predictors of post-mortem confirmed AD.

Mustafa Seckin, Munich – Primary Progressive Aphasia and the Language Network

 

11-11.30am – Coffee

 

11.30am - 1pm – GENERAL MEETING

 

In the afternoon, optional excursion to Ponte de Lima

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