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