Key Description
Teaching Course Scientific Session: Main Topics
Main Hall - Plenary
14:30 - 18:00
Main Hall - Plenary
07:00 - 08:00
Plenary Lecture 1: Fulton Award
Lecture - Monitoring and
Engineering Memory Engram
Cells and Their Circuits
(08:00-08:45)
Chairs: Ryosuke Takahashi, Japan
and TBA
Speaker: Susumu Tonegawa,
Japan
08:00-09:15
Plenary Lecture 2: Precision
Medicine in TBI: Lessons from
Dopaminergic Treatment of
Cognitive Impairment
(08:45-09:15)
Chairs: Ryosuke Takahashi, Japan
and TBA
Speaker: David Sharp, UK
M1a: Epilepsy - What is in a
Name? New Epilepsy Definition
and Classification and Why it Approach in CNS Demyelinating
09:15 - 10:45
Matters to the Clinician
Chairs: Jacqueline French, USA Chairs: Kazuo Fujihara, Japan
and Naoki Akamatu, Japan
New Definition of Epilepsy-Who
has Epilepsy Now That Didnt
09:15 - 09:40 Have it Before?
Jacqueline French, USA
New Classification of Epilepsy
09:40 - 10:05 and its Syndromes
Emilio Perucca, Italy
New Seizure Names - What
Happened to the Complex
10:05 - 10:30
Partial Seizure?
Ingrid Scheffer, Australia
10:30 - 10:45 Discussion
10:45 - 11:15
Annex Hall 1
Annex Hall 1
M2a: MS and Other
Inflammatory Diseases -
T1a: Neurorehabilitation Including Brain Machine
Features and Diagnostic
Interface (BMI) - Innovative Approaches to
Diseases
Chairs: Leonard Li, Hong Kong and Meigen Liu,
and Hans Peter Hartung,
Germany
New Diagnostic Criteria and
Phenotypes of MS
Alan Thompson, UK
Pediatric CNS Demyelinating
Diseases
Silvia Tenembaum, Argentina
The 2015 NMOSD Diagnostic
Criteria - Are They an
Improvement?
Brian Weinshenker, USA
Discussion
Free Papers
Plenary Lecture Regional Symposium Session Scientific Session: Topics
Sponsored Symposium Tournament of the Minds Breaks
Japanese Scientific Session
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
Room A Annex Hall 2 Room D Room E Swan Hall Room B-1 Room B-2 Room C-1
Teaching Course 6: Rare Cases in
Teaching Course 3: Neuro- Teaching Course 5: Neurology and
Teaching Course 1: MS & Other Inflammatory Clinical Practice (Tournament Teaching Course 7: Myopathy
Teaching Course 2: Headache critical Care Teaching Course 4: Neurorehabilitation Internal Medicine
Disorders Committee) Chairs: Marianne De Visser, The Netherlands
Chairs: TBA and K. Ravishankar, India Chairs: Liping Liu, China and Chairs: Leonard Li, Hong Kong and TBA Chairs: Steven L Lewis, USA and R.S
Chairs: TBA and Ching-Piao Tsai, Taiwan Chairs: Richard Stark, Australia and and Ichizo Nishino, Japan
Gene Sung, USA Wadia, India
TBA
14:30 - Diagnostic Approach in CNS Demyelinating 14:30 - Other Primary Headaches 14:30 - How to Begin 14:30 - Cybernic Treatment with the Cyborg- 14:30 - Neurology of Vitamin B12 14:30 - Headache 14:30 - Making Sense of the Clinical Spectrum of
Diseases Shuu-Jiun Wang, Taiwan Multimodality Monitoring Type Robot HAL: Enhancing Functional Deficiency Richard Stark, Australia Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy
Ching-Piao Tsai, Taiwan Michel Torbey, USA Regeneration in Patients With Rare Incurable R.S Wadia, India Satish Khadilkar, India
15:15 - Thunderclap Headache (TCH) - Looking at it Neuromuscular Diseases 15:00 - Peripheral Neuropathy
15:15 - Immunopathology and Immune Regulation Differently 15:15 - Treatment of Intracranial Takashi Nakajima, Japan 15:15 - Neurology of Organ Takashi Kanda, Japan 15:15 - How to Approach Non-Limb-Girdle
in MS K. Ravishankar, India Hypertension Dysfunction Weakness
Hans Peter Hartung, Germany Gene Sung, USA 15:15 - Impairment and Functional Steven Lewis, USA Stroke & Neurovascular Disease Marianne De Visser, The Netherlands
Neurorehabilitation Faouzi Belahsen, Morocco
Volker Hmberg, Germany
Coffee Break ouside session halls (16:00-16:30)
16:30 - Therapeutic Approach of MS 16:30 - Other Secondary Headaches (Non- 16:30 - Beginning or Reversing 16:30 - Recent Advance in Stroke Rehabilitation 16:30 - Neuromuscular 16:30 - Neuro-Infection 16:30 - How to Read Muscle Pathology
Xavier Montalban, Spain Thunderclap) Anticoagulation In Acute Meigen Liu, Japan Complications of Cancer Nicholas Davies, UK Ichizo Nishino, Japan
Rashmi Halker, USA Neurological Disease Wolfgang Grisold, Austria
17:15 - Treatment Strategy of NMOSD Alejandro Rabinstein, USA 17:15 - Hemiplegic Shoulder Pain: Strategy for 17:00 - Polyneuropathies and 17:15 - Treatment Approaches in Hereditary
Ho Jin Kim, Republic of Korea 17:15 - Trigemino-Autonomic Cephalalgias (TACS)- Intervention 17:15 - Neurologic Disorders in Myopathies Myopathies
Diagnosis and Treatment 17:15 - Hemodynamic Therapy Leonard Li, Hong Kong Patient with HIV Virus Infection Ricardo Fadic, Chile Zohar Argov, Israel
David Dodick, USA in Acute Neurological Disease Parthasarthy Satishchandra, India
Liping Liu, China 17:30 - Mononeuropathies
Andrea Vass, Austria
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2017
Room A Annex Hall 2 Room D Room E Swan Hall Room B-1 Room B-2 Room C-1 Room C-2 Room H Room G
Morning Teaching Course 33
Disturbances of vision and eye movements
Chair: TBA and Yasuo Terao, Japan
Speaker: Christopher Kennard, UK
Teaching Course 9: Auto-
Immune Disorders I - Teaching Course 10: Dementia I - Free Papers: Ataxia and Cerebellar
T2a: Neurocritical Care Free Papers: Neuromuscular Disorders Teaching Course 11: Neurosonology Workshop
Teaching Course 8: Stroke I Autoimmune Neurological Basic Disorders
Neurorehabilitation: Basic Neuroscience Chairs: Masao Nagayama, Japan and Gene Sung, WFN Council of Delegates Meeting Chairs: Anne Hege Aamodt, Norway and Raul Chairs: Massimo Del Sette, Italy and Alexander
Chairs: TBA Disorders: Part 1 Chairs: Vincent Mok, Hong Kong Chairs: TBA and Yuji Takahashi,
USA Federico Pelli-Noble, Argentina Razumovsky, USA
Chair: Sean Pittock, USA and and Murat Emre, Turkey Japan
Japan
Hans Lassmann, Austria
Facilitation of Synaptic AMPA Receptor Delivery
(09:15-9:35)
Leading to the Acceleration of Recovery of Motor
Managing Stroke After TPA/Embolectomy
Function with Rehabilitation after Brain Injury
Kiwon Lee, USA
Takuya Takahashi, Japan
Part I. Vascular Neurosonology
09:15 - Clinical Spectrum of AD:
(09:15-11:45)
Non-Amnestic Variants as a
09:15 - Overview of (09:35-09:55)
Diagnostic Conundrum
Experimental Neurorehabilitation Training 09:15 - Setting Up a Stroke Unit Autoimmune Neurology Updates In Managing ICH and SAH 09:15 - Evidence Based Neurosonology
Morris Freedman, Canada
Michael Selzer, USA Michael Brainin, Austria Sean Pittock, USA Claude Hemphill, USA Massimo Del Sette, Italy
10:00 - Current Alzheimer
10:00 - Whats New in Acute Stroke Therapy 10:00 - Autoimmune 09:45 - Neurosonology and Its Role for
Treatments: Do They Matter and
Stephen Davis, Australia Astrocytopathies Extracranial Carotid Artery Disease
How Much?
Vanda Lennon, USA Manfred Kaps, Germany
Ali Reza Atri, USA
(09:55-10:15)
Functional Recovery Secondary to Neural Neuromuscular Disease in the ICU 10:15 - TCCD Ultrasound in Guiding Vasospasm
Gisele Sampiao Silva, Brazil Treatment After SAH
Stem/Progenitor Cells Transplantation Combined
Fabienne Perren, Switzerland
with Treadmill Training in Mice with Chronic Spinal
Cord Injury
Syoichi Tashiro, Japan (10:15-10:35)
Status Epilepticus
Claude Hemphill, USA
(10:35-10:45)
Discussion
Discussion
Inaugural Exhibition Opening in The Exhibition Area
 M2b: MS and Other
M1b: Epilepsy - Epilepsy Care of Inflammatory Diseases -
Women Through the Immunopathology and
11:15 - 12:45 Childbearing Years Pathogenesis of MS and
Chairs: Emilio Perucca, Italy and NMOSD
TBA Chairs: Kira Jun-ichi, Japan and
TBA
Epilepsy Management-Does
Gender Matter? How Should
Initial Treatment Choices be Immunological Abnormalities
Plasticity of Expert Networks in Health and Disease
11:15 - 11:40 Impacted by Gender? How do and Immune-regulation in MS
Birth Control Options Impact Hans Peter Hartung, Germany
Epilepsy Therapy and Vice Versa?
Jacqueline French, USA
Women with Epilepsy -
Hormones and Fertility -What do
we Know About Hormone Pathology of MS Subtypes (RIS,
11:40 - 12:05 Changes Caused by Seizures and CIS, RRMS, PMS, Balo Disease)
their Impact. What about Wolfgang Brck, Germany
Fertility?
Sanjeev Thomas, India
Epilepsy Management Before
and During Pregnancy -
Pathogenesis of NMOSD
12:05 - 12:30 Management of AEDS During
Kazuo Fujihara, Japan
Pregnancy
Tomson Torbjorn, Sweden
12:30 - 12:45 Discussion Discussion
International Pharma
Sponsored Symposium
Industry Session 1
Lunch Break, Poster and E-Poster
12:45 - 14:45 Not included in main event
Viewing and Exhibition Visit
CME/CPD credit
(13:00-14:30)
M2c: MS and Other
Inflammatory Diseases -
Emerging Therapeutic Strategy M1c: Epilepsy - What to Do When Nothing Works
14:45 - 16:15
of MS Subtypes and NMOSD
Chairs: Tatsuro Misu, Japan and
TBA
Therapeutic Overview of MS -
14:45 - 15:10 Emerging Goals
William Carroll, Australia
Treatment of Progressive MS
15:10 - 15:35
Xavier Montalban, Spain
Therapeutic Approach of
15:35 - 16:00 NMOSD
Ho Jin Kim, Republic of Korea
16:00 - 16:15 Discussion
16:15 - 16:25
M2d: MS and Other
Inflammatory Diseases - Cutting-
edge Technologies for Diagnosis M1d: Epilepsy - Diagnosing and Treating Epilepsy
16:25 - 17:55 and Treatment in CNS
Demyelinating Diseases
Chairs: Kazuo Fujihara, Japan
and TBA
New Biomarker in
16:25 - 16:50 Demyelinating Disorders
Jun-ichi Kira, Japan
Reappraisal of
Neurophysiological
16:50 - 17:15 Examinations and Therapeutic
Neuromodulation
Giancarlo Comi, Italy
Remyelination and
Neuroregenerative Treatment
17:15 - 17:40
Bruno Stankoff, France
17:40 - 17:55 Discussion
17:55 - 18:25
18:25 - 19:30 Opening Ceremony
19:30
T1b: Neurorehabilitation Including Brain Machine Free Papers: Dementia 1
Teaching Course: Auto-Immune
Interface (BMI) - Innovative Approaches to T3: Neurology in Migrants Chairs: Hamidone Basri, Malaysia and Ildefonso
Disorders I - Autoimmune T2b: Neurocritical Care Teaching Course: Dementia I - Teaching Course: Neurosonology Workshop
Neurorehabilitation: Clinical Application Teaching Course: Stroke I (Cont'd) WFN Council of Delegates (Cont'd) Chairs: Mustapha El Alaoui Faris, Rodriguez Leyva, Mexico
Neurological Disorders: Part 1 Chairs: Liping Liu, China and Gene Sung, USA Basic (Cont'd) (Cont'd)
Chairs: Leonard Li, Hong Kong and Meigen Liu, Morocco and Antonio Federico, Italy
(Cont'd)
Japan
Neurology and Migrants: What We
(11:15-11:35)
Know, What We Learned by
Developing Neurocritical Care in Your Country
Stephanie Clarke, Switzerland Neurosciences, What We Can Do?
Gisele Sampiao Silva, Brazil
Antonio Federico, Italy
11:15 - Neurosonology as a Critical Tool in
Critical Care
11:15 - Antibody Mediated Alexander Razumovsky, USA
11:15 - Advances in Etiology and Treatment of Neuronal Diseases and (11:35-11:55) 11:15 - Diagnosis and Management Neurocognitive Disorders in Aging
Application of Therapeutic Robotics
Cryptogenic Stroke Immunopathogenic Insights Neuromonitoring in the ICU of FTD in Clinical Practice Migrants Part II. Neurosonology of Peripheral Nerves and
Leonard Li, Hong Kong
Bo Norrving, Sweden Romana Hftberger, Austria Masao Nagayama, Japan Shinsuke Fujioka, Japan Mustapha El Alaoui Faris, Morocco Muscles
(11:45-15:15)
12:00 - Optimizing Antiplatelet Therapy: When to 12:00 - Dementia Associated with
Start and Stop 12:00 - Autoimmune Disorders Parkinsonism: The Spectrum 11:45 - Clinical Usefulness of TCD /TCCS for
K.S. Lawrence Wong, Hong Kong of the Neuromuscular Junction Murat Emre, Turkey Patients with Dementia
Angela Vincent, UK TBA
(11:55-12:15) 12:15 - Texture Analysis and Other Quantitative
Assessment of Skeletal Muscle Images
Coma
Restoration of Post-Stroke Upper Limb Paralysis Cerebrovascular Risk Factors and Hiroyuki Nodera, Japan
Ed Manno, USA
With BMI Neurorehabilitation Stroke in Migrants
Meigen Liu, Japan Serefnur Ozturk, Turkey
(12:15-12:35)
Determining Brain Death
Gene Sung, USA
(12:35-12:45)
Discussion Discussion
Discussion
Japanese Pharma Sponsored Japanese Pharma Sponsored Japanese Pharma Sponsored
Symposium Symposium Symposium
Japanese Pharma Sponsored Symposium
Industry Session 3 Industry Session 5 Industry Session 6
Industry Session 4
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Not included in main event (12:55-13:45)
CME/CPD credit CME/CPD credit credit
Japanese Pharma Sponsored Symposium Japanese Pharma Sponsored Symposium (12:55-13:45) (12:55-13:45) (12:55-13:45) International Pharma Sponsored Symposium 2
Industry Session 1 Industry Session 2 Industry Session
Lunch Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing
Not included in main event CME/CPD credit Not included in main event CME/CPD credit Not included in main event CME/CPD credit Lunch Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit
and Exhibition Visit
(12:55-14:40) (12:55-14:40) Japanese Pharma Sponsored Japanese Pharma Sponsored Japanese Pharma Sponsored (13:00-14:30)
Symposium Japanese Pharma Sponsored Symposium Symposium Symposium
Industry Session 7 Industry Session 8 Industry Session 9 Industry Session 10
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CME/CPD credit (13:50-14:40) CME/CPD credit credit
(13:50-14:40) (13:50-14:40) (13:50-14:40)
Teaching Course 13: Auto-
Teaching Course 15: Neuroimaging & Free Papers: Movement Disorders 1
Immune Disorders II - Teaching Course 14: Dementia II - Latin American Regional Symposium -
Teaching Course 12: Stroke II Neurointervention Chairs: Chandrashekhar Meshram, India and
Autoimmune Neurological Japanese Scientific Session 1 Advanced Zika and its Neurologic Consequences Teaching Course: Neurosonology Workshop
Chairs: Christopher Chen, Singapore and Shinichiro Chairs: Bruno Giometto, Italy
Chairs: Jacqueline French, USA and TBA Disorders: Part 2 Chairs: TBA and Kazutoshi Nishiyama, Japan Chairs: Vincent Mok, Hong Kong Chairs: Marco Medina, Honduras and (Cont'd)
Uchiyama, Japan TBA and Hidenao Fukuyama, Japan
Chair: Sean Pittock, USA and and Murat Emre, Turkey Renato Verdugo, Chile
Hans Lassmann, Austria
New Drug or Combinations? Stroke Microcephaly and Zika
Eugen Trinka , Austria Yasuo Terayama, Japan Amilton Antunes Barreira, Brazil
14:45 - Autoimmune
14:45- Ultrasonographic Reference Values of
Encephalomyelitis and 14:45 - The Spectrum of Non-
14:45 - Stroke and Cognitive Impairment Median, Ulnar Nerve and Cervical Roots in
MOGopathy in Humans: What Degenerative Dementias in Asian 14:45 - Stroke Therapy
Christopher Chen, Singapore Japanese Multicenter Study
Surgery and Stimulation Treatment (Including Can We Learn for Multiple Countries Joung-Ho Rha, Republic of Korea
Dementia Guillain Barre Syndrome and Zika Hiroshi Tsukamoto, Japan
Brain Stimulation and VNS) Sclerosis Nagaendran Kandiah, Singapore
15:30 - Endovascular Thrombectomy - The Hot Shun Shimohama, Japan Carlos Pardo, USA
Akio Ikeda, Japan Hans Lassmann, Austria 15:30 - Ischemic Changes of the Brain Observed
News Part III. Hands-on
15:30 - Vascular Cognitive in PET Studies
Bernard Yan, Australia (15:15-17:55)
15:30 - Update and Review of Impairment, Can it Be Prevented? Hidenao Fukuyama, Japan
BALO's Concentric Sclerosis Vincent Mok, Hong Kong
Katsuhisa Masaki, USA
New Spectrum of the Neurologic
Pediatric Epilepsy and Ketogenic Diet Epilepsy
Consequences of Zika
Heung Dong Kim, Republic of Korea Naoki Akamatsu, Japan
Marco Medina, Honduras
Discussion Discussion Discussion
Coffee Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit
T4: Traumatic Brain Injury - The Neurobiology of Free Papers: Stroke 1
Teaching Course: Auto-Immune North American Regional Symposium -
Traumatic Brain Injury: The Most Complex Chairs: TBA and Chokri Mhiri,
Disorders II - Autoimmune Teaching Course: Dementia II - Treating and Preventing Common Teaching Course: Neuroimaging & Teaching Course: Neurosonology Workshop Free Papers: Neuro-critical Care
and its Stigma in Resource-restricted Settings Teaching Course: Stroke II (Cont'd) injury to the Most Complex Organ Tunisia
Neurological Disorders: Part 2 Advanced (Cont'd) Neurological Conditions Neurointervention (Cont'd) (Cont'd) Chairs: Serefnur Ozturk, Turkey and TBA
Chairs: TBA and Kazutaka Jin, Japan Chairs:David Sharp, UK and Christopher Giza,
(Cont'd) Chairs: Ralph Sacco, USA and TBA
USA
Long-Term Inflammatory and
Burden of Epilepsy, is it Related to Restricted Neurodegenerative Consequences of Traumatic
Stroke
Resource? Brain Injury
Ralph Sacco, USA
Augustina Charway-Felli, Ghana David Sharp, UK
16:25 - Approach to Diagnosis of 16:25 - Are Amyloid-Based
16:25 - Neuroprotection Provided by
Autoimmune/Inflammatory Therapies Failing and Why?
16:25 - Atrial Fibrillation - The Latest Advances Neuropsychiatric Perspectives of TBI Preconditioning and Postconditioning
Spinal Cord Disorders Shun Shimohama, Japan Migraine as Another Common
Epilepsy Care Gap Shinichiro Uchiyama, Japan Simon Fleminger, UK Tetsuya Takahashi, Japan
Eoin Flanagan, USA Neurological Disorder
Ding Ding, China 17:10 - Immune-Based Part III: Hands-on (continued)
17:10 - Challenging Stroke Cases David Dodick, USA 17:10 - The Use of Probabilistic Human Brain
17:10 - Autoimmune and Encephalopathies: A Diagnostic
Deidre De Silva, Singapore Atlases of Structure and Function in Health and
Inflammatory Peripheral Algorithm
Disease States
Neuropathies: Update on Joseph Masdeu, USA
Raj Kalaria, UK
Diagnosis and Treatment
Age Matters: A Translational Perspective on
Hans Peter Hartung, Germany Dementia and Alzheimers Disease
Stigma, a Global or Regional Problem? Pediatric TBI From Coma to Concussion
Lessons from the Oldest-old
Kheng-Seang Lim , Malaysia Christopher Giza, USA
Claudia Kawas, USA
Discussion Discussion Discussion
Short Break
Welcome Reception in The Swan Banquet Hall & Garden
 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Main Hall - Plenary Annex Hall 1 Room A Annex Hall 2 Room D Room E Swan Hall Room B-1 Room B-2 Room C-1 Room C-2
Morning Teaching Course 34
Coma in the ICU - A General Neurologist's
07:00 - 08:00 Perspective
Chair: Erich Schmutzhard, Austria
Speaker: Sarosh Katrak, India

Plenary Lecture 3:
Innovative Cybernic Interace in
Neurology
(08:00-08:30)
Chairs: Werner Poewe, Austria
and Yoshikazu Ugawa, Japan
Speaker: Yoshiyuki Sankai, Japan
08:00 - 09:00
Plenary 4: Neurology Diseases
Global Burden
(08:30-09:00)
Chairs: Werner Poewe, Austria
and Yoshikazu Ugawa, Japan
Spaeaker: Valery Feigin, New
Zealand

WFN Medals Presentation

(09:00-09:20)

Presidential Symposium &

Soriano Award Lecture - Grid
cells and the Medial-Entorhinal
Space Network
(09:20-10:05)
Speaker: Edvard Moser, Norway

09:00 - 10:45 Defining the Future of Neurology -

Japan, Asia and Oceania
(10:05-10:20)
Speaker: Hidehiro Mizusawa,
Japan

Global Neurology Challenges and

Way Forward
(10:20-10:40)
Speaker: Raad Shakir, UK

WFN President Elect View for the

Four Years Ahead
(10:40-10:45)

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit

Pan-Arab Regional Symposium - Teaching Course 16: Botulinum Toxin

M3a: Neuroimaging, Molecular
Functional Imaging
11:15 - 12:45
Chairs: Hidenao Fukuyama, Japan
and TBA
T7a: Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System -
T6: Neuro Otology: Spatial Orientation and Current Knowledge of Free Papers: Epilepsy 1 Workshop - Why, When and How to
T5: Headache Evaluation of Autonomic Disorders T8a: Palliative Care - General Aspects Free Papers: Autoimmune Disorders 1 Free Papers: Dementia 2
Cortical Vestibular Function Neurological Disorders Among Chairs: Sergio Castillo, Chile and Inject Botulinum Toxin: A Guide for
Chairs: K Ravishankar, India and Chairs: Ryuji Sakakibara, Japan and Eduardo Chairs: Gian Borasio, Switzerland and Wolfgang Chairs: Arabinda Mukherjee, India and Chairs: Mustapha El Alaoui Faris, Morocco and
Chairs: Thomas Brandt, Germany and Adolfo Arabs Hassan Hosny, Egypt Clinicians
TBA Benarroch, USA Grisold, Austria Maged Abdel Naseer, Egypt Pairoj Boonlongchuen, Thailand
Bronstein, UK Chairs: Saeed Bohlega, Saudi Chairs: Raymond Rosales, Philippines
Arabia and TBA amd Erle Lim, Singapore

(11:15-11:35)
The CGRP Story - From Bench to Clinical Approach and Imaging of Cortical General Approach to the Diagnosis of Autonomic
Multiple Sclerosis in The Middle Educational: What is Palliative Care
Amyloid and TAU Imaging Bedside Vestibular Disorders Disorders
11:15 - 11:40 East And North Africa M.R. Rajagopal, India
Nobuyuki Okamaura, Japan David Dodick, USA Marianne Dieterich, Germany Eduardo Benarroch, USA
Bassem Yamout, Lebanon

(11:35-11:55)
CSF Pressure Changes - The Ups Neuromuscular Disorders
Clinical Neuro-Otology of Spatial Orientation Autonomic Neuropathies Transcultural Aspects
ADNI MRI Data and Downs Among Arabs - How Much we
11:40 - 12:05 Adolfo Bronstein, UK Roy Freeman, USA Mieko Ogino, Japan
Michael Weiner, USA Shuu-Jiun Wang , Taiwan Know? 11:15 - BoNT in Common Neurological
Ammar Babikir, Sudan Disorders
Raymond Rosales, Philippines

12:00 - How to Optimize BoNT

Medication Overuse Headache
SPM Analysis
(MOH) -The Controversies and
12:05 - 12:30 Jean-Baptiste Poline, USA
The Consensus
K. Ravishankar, India
(11:55-12:15) Delivery
Genetic of Parkinsons Disease Erle Lim, Singapore
Among Arabs
Saeed Bohlega, Saudi Arabia
Body and Soul: Vestibular Dizziness and
Synycleinopathies From Autonomic Pointo of View End of Life Decisions in Neurology
Psychological Dizziness
Ryuji Sakakibara, Japan Gian Borasio, Switzerland
Jeffrey Staab, USA (12:15-12:35)
Features of Hereditary Spastic
Paraplegias in North African
Region
Chokri Mhiri, Tunisia

(12:35-12:45)
12:30 - 12:45 Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion
Discussion

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Industry Session 11 Industry Session 12 Industry Session 14 Industry Session 15 Industry Session 16
Industry Session 13
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(12:55-13:45) (12:55-13:45) (12:55-13:45)
International Pharma Sponsored Symposium 3
Industry Session
12:45 - 14:45 Lunch Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit Not included in main event CME/CPD credit Lunch Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit
(13:00-14:30)
Japanese Pharma Sponsored
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Industry Session 22
Industry Session 17 Industry Session 18 Industry Session 19 Industry Session 20 Industry Session 21
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(13:50-14:40)
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 T7b: Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System -
Teaching Course 17: Neuro- Teaching Course 19: Child Teaching Course: Botulinum Toxin
M3b: Neuroimaging, Molecular Japanese Scientific Session 2 Pathophysiology and Management of Autonomic Teaching Course 18: CNS T8b: Palliative Care - Clinical Examples
Oncology T9a: Neurogenetics Neurology Workshop - Why, When and How to Free Papers: Epilepsy 2
14:45 - 16:15 Functional Imaging Chairs: Miho Murata, Japan and Ichiro Disorders Infections & Tropical Neurology Chairs: Gian Borasio, Switzerland and Wolfgang
Chairs: TBA and Michael Weller, Chairs: TBA and Stefan Pulst, USA Chairs: Jo Wilmshurst, South Africa Inject Botulinum Toxin: A Guide for Chairs: TBA and Chaker Khamis, Lebanon
Chair: TBA and Kenichi Oishi, USA Nakashima, Japan Chairs: Ryuji Sakakibara, Japan and Eduardo Chairs: TBA and TBA Grisold, Austria
Switzerland and Michael Johnston, USA Clinicians (Cont'd)
Benarroch, USA

Human Brain Connectome Neuropathological Basis of Central Autonomic New Genes With a New Mechanism For
Neurological Palliative Care in Children
Project Multiple Sclerosis NMO Failure Epilepsy
14:45 - 15:10 Monika Fuhrer, Germany
Kenichi Oishi, USA Tatsuro Misu, Japan Glenda Halliday, Australia Shoji Tsuji, Japan

14:45 - The Last 20 Years of

Neuro-Oncology: What Have
We Learned?
Language Function of the Brain Lawrence Cher, Australia
15:10 - 15:35
Matthew Lambon-Ralph , UK
15:30 - The New WHO
Classification of Brain Tumors
and Its Impact on Clinical
Probabilistic Brain Atlases in Decision Making
Michael Weller, Switzerland
Health & Disease
15:35 - 16:00 Raj Kalaria, UK
14:45 - Cerebral Plasticity: 14:45 - Case Discussions - Simple
14:45 - Infections & Epilepsy
Management of Orthostatic Hypotension Opportunities for Treatment of Cases and What We Learn from Them
Amadou Gallo Diop, Senegal Palliative Care in Brain Tumors Exome Sequencing For Neurological
Immune Mediated Neuropathy, Paola Sandroni, USA Pediatric Brain Disorders Mohamed El Tamawy, Egypt
Wolfgang Grisold, Austria Disorders
Takashi Kanda, Japan Michael Johnston, USA
15:30 - Management of Jeffery Vance, USA
15:30 - Case Discussions - Challenging
Bacterial Meningitis
15:30 - Diagnosis of Seizure Cases and What We Learn from Them
Diederik Van de Beek, The
Disorders Using Video Examples Daniel Truong, USA
Netherlands
Jo Wilmshurst, South Africa
Management of PD and MSA, including Neurogenic Q&A Session: All speakers
Palliative Care in ALS
Autoimmune Encephalopathy Bladder, etc. Genetics of Restless Legs Syndrome
David Oliver, UK
Satoshi Kamei, Japan Jalesh Panicker, UK Juliane Winkelmann, Germany

16:00 - 16:15 Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion

16:15 - 16:45 Coffee Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit

M3c: Neuroimaging, Molecular T10: Myopathies and Muscle Disorders T11: Psychiatry - Medically Unexplained Symptoms T12: The Role of Microglia in Neurological
Teaching Course: Neuro- Teaching Course: CNS Infections T9b: Neurogenetics Teaching Course: Child Neurology Free Papers: Stroke 2 Free Papers: CNS Infections Free Papers: Movement Disorders 2
16:45 - 18:15 Functional Imaging Chairs: Ichizo Nishino, Japan and Marianne De Chairs: Dinesh Bhugra, UK and Helen Herrman, Disease
Oncology (Cont'd) & Tropical Neurology (Cont'd) Chairs: TBA and Stefan Pulst, USA (Cont'd) TBA and Yomi Ogun, Nigeria Chairs: C T Tan, Malaysia and TBA Chairs: Francisco Cardoso, Brazil and TBA
Chairs: TBA and TBA Visser, The Netherlands Australia Chairs: TBA and Hiroaki Wake, Japan

Optical Imaging on The Brain Paradigm Shift in the Classification of Idiopathic Ataxia Models and Preclinical Treatment
Medically Unexplained Symptoms Across Cultures Physiology of Microglia: New Insights
Function Inflammatory Myopathies Trials
16:45 - 17:10 Dinesh Bhugra, UUK Hiroaki Wake, Japan
David Boas, USA Marianne De Visser, The Netherlands Stefan Pulst, USA

16:45 - Challenges in the

Parkinsons Disease and
Huntingtons Disease by PET and
17:10 - 17:35 MRI
Paola Piccini, UK
Diffusion Weighted Image in
Neurology
17:35 - 18:00
Hidenao Fukuyama, Japan
Diagnosis and Treatment of
Patients with Lower Grade
Gliomas in Clinical Practice
Warren Mason, Canada
17:30 - Challenges in the
Neuroimaging of Brain Tumors
Ricardo Soffietti, Italy
Recent Diagnostic Advances in Muscular Dystrophy
16:45 - Update on Demyelinating
Medically Unexplained Symptoms and the Health of 16:45 - Tropical Neurology in Microglial Phagocytosis of Neurons in Repeat Expansion Disorders
GNE Myopathy - Update and Future Therapy Diseases in Children
Women ASEAN Countries Neurological Disease Alexandra Durr, France
Ichizo Nishino, Japan Silvia Tenembaum, Argentina
Helen Herrman, Australia Dede Gunawan, Indonesia Guy Brown, UK
17:30 - Pathophysiology and
17:30 - Management of
Interventions for Children with Rett
Challenging CNS Infections
Syndrome
Tom Solomon, UK
Mental Imagery on Medically Unexplained Neuron-Glia Metabolic Coupling: Role in Extensive Genetic Analysis On Taiwanese Yoshiko Nomura, Japan
Symptoms Plasticity and Neuroprotection Patients with Inherited Neuropathy
Satish Khadilkar, India
Roger Ng, Hong Kong Pierre Magistretti, Switzerland Yi-Chung Lee, Taiwan

18:00 - 18:15 Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion


Main Hall - Plenary
07:00 - 08:00
Plenary Lecture 5: Masland
Award Lecture - Spatial
Navigation Mechanisms of The
Brain
(08:00-08:30)
Chairs: TBA and Steven Lewis,
USA
Speaker: Thomas Brandt,
Germany
08:00 - 09:00
Plenary Lecture 6: Neurological
Manifestations of Congenital
Zika Syndrome
(08:30-09:00)
Chairs: TBA and Steven Lewis,
USA
Speaker: Andre Pessoa, Brazil
M5a: Prion Like Mechanisms
and Neurological Disease and
M4a: Stroke -WSO Joint Session Novel Targets Treatment - Prion-
Global Issues
09:00 - 10:30
Chairs: TBA and K.S. Lawrence
Wong, Hong Kong
Global Stroke Initiative
09:00 - 09:25 Bo Norrving, Sweden
Current State and Future
Directions for Reperfusion
09:25 - 09:50 Therapy
Stephen Davis, Australia
Key Elements of Stroke Care
09:50 - 10:15 Michael Brainin, Austria
10:15 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00
Novel Targets Treatment - Prion-
M4b: Stroke - Acute Stroke
like Propagation: What Drives
Therapy
11:00 - 12:30
Chairs: Didier Leys, France and
K.S. Lawrence Wong, Hong Kong
ICH - Surgery, BP and
Hemostasis
11:00 - 11:25
Kazuo Minematsu, Japan
Rapid Assessment and Treatment
of Minor Stroke and TIA
11:25 - 11:50
Liping Liu, China
Telestroke, DRIP and SHIP
11:50 - 12:15
Bernard Yan, Australia
12:15 - 12:30 Discussion
Annex Hall 1
like Diseases: The Clinico-
pathological Spectrum
Chairs: Hidehiro Mizusawa,
Japan and Colin Masters,
Australia
Prion Disease: An Overview
Hidehiro Mizusawa, Japan
Variant CJD
Robert Will, UK
Protein Amplification From
Peripheral Tissues
Claudio Soto, USA
Discussion
M5b: Prion Like Mechanisms
and Neurological Disease and
What?
Chairs: Masato Hasegawa,
Japan and Colin Masters,
Australia
A Beta
Colin Masters, Australia
Alpha-Synuclein
Masato Hasegawa, Japan
TAU Assembly and Propagation
of Pathology
Michel Goedert, UK
Discussion
Room A
Japanese Scientific Session 3
Chairs: Masahiro Sonoo, Japan and Nobuo
Kohara, Japan
Neurophysiology CNS
Shozo Tobimatsu, Japan
Neurophysiology PNS
Nobuo Kohara, Japan
Ultrasound Studies of Nerves
Hiroshi Tsukamoto, Japan
Discussion
11:00-12:00
Tournament of the Minds: "Heats" Qualifying
Round
Chairs: Richard Stark, Australia and TBA
Annex Hall 2
Morning Teaching Course 35:
Headache: Clinical Pearls for Diagnosis and
Treatment
Chair: Richard Stark, Australia
Speaker: David Dodick, US
T13a: Autoimmune Disorders - Clinical Aspects of
Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Neurological
Disorders
Chairs: Sean Pittock, USA and Keiko Tanaka, Japan
Update on Epidemiology and Treatment of NMOSD
Sean Pittock, USA
Approaches for the Diagnosis and Treatment of
Autoimmune Encephalitis
Keiko Tanaka, Japan
Autoimmune Neuropathy
Susumu Kusunoki, Japan
Discussion
T13b: Autoimmune Disorders- Pathomechanisms
of Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Neurological
Disorders
Chairs: Sean Pittock, USA and Susumu Kusunoki,
Japan
Innate Immunity and Neuroinflammation
Sachiko Miyake, Japan
Variable Immunopathogenetic Patterns in CAS
Demyelinating Conditions
Hans Lassmann, Austria
Autoimmune Gliopathies: Pathogenic Mechanisms
Vanda Lennon, USA
Discussion
Room D
T14a: Neurooncology- Brain
Tumors
Chairs: Patrick Wen, USA and
Michael Weller, Switzerland
Advances in Classification and
Targeted Therapy of Gliomas
Patrick Wen, USA
Immunotherapy for Brain
Tumors Checkpoint Inhibitors,
Vaccines and Beyond
Michael Weller, Switzerland
New Developments in Primary
CNS Lymphoma
Lawrence Cher, Australia
Discussion
T14b: Neurooncology -
Neurologic Complications of
Cancer
Chairs: Patrick Wen, USA and
Wolfgang Grisold, Austria
Brain and Leptomeningeal
Metastases
Emilie Le Rhun, France
Medical Management of Brain
Tumor Patients: Seizures,
Steroids, and Vascular
Complications
Warren Mason, Canada
Paraneoplastic Syndromes
Sith Sathornsumetee, Thailand
Discussion
Room E
Teaching Course 21: Movement Disorders I -
Teaching Course 20: Epilepsy I - Newly
Developed Epilepsy Syndrome and Treatment
Chairs: TBA and TBA
09:00 - Autoimmune Epilepsy
Angela Vincent, UK
09:45 - Update on Progressive Myoclonus
Epilepsy
Akio Ikeda, Japan
Teaching Course: Epilepsy I - Newly Developed
Epilepsy Syndrome and Treatment
(Cont'd)
11:00 - Elderly Epilepsy and EEG
Naoki Akamatsu, Japan
11:45 - How to Use New Antiepileptic Drugs
Byung-In Lee, Republic of Korea
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Swan Hall
Parkinson's Disease: Concept and Diagnosis
Chairs: Ryosuke Takahashi, Japan and
Francisco Cardoso, Brazil
09:00 - Etiopathogenesis of PD
Ryosuke Takahashi, Japan
09:45 - Redefinition of PD
Gnther Deuschl, Germany
Coffee Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit
Teaching Course: Movement Disorders I -
Parkinson's Disease: Concept and Diagnosis
(Cont'd)
11:00 - Diagnosis of PD
Heinz Reichmann, Germany
11:45 - Atypical Parkinsonism
Beomseok (BJ) Jeon, Republic of Korea
Room B-1 Room B-2 Room C-1 Room C-2 Room H Room G
Free Papers: Functional Disorders and
Teaching Course 22: Neuro Free Papers: Motor Neuron Disease Free Papers: Stroke 3
Behavioral Neurology Free Papers: Late Breaking Oral Session I
Rheumatology Chairs:Matthew Kiernan, Australiaand TBA Chairs: TBA and TBA
Chairs: Jon Stone, UK and Maria Chairs: Raad Shakir, UK and Werner Poewe,
Chairs: Aksel Siva, Turkey and
Benabdeljlil, Morocco Austria
Tracey Cho, USA
09:00 - Clinical Approach to Neuro-
Rheumatology
Tracey Cho, USA
09:45 - Neuro-Behcet's
Aksel Siva, Turkey
Free Papers: Child Neurology Free Papers: Autonomic Nervous System
Free Papers: Traumatic Brain Injury
Teaching Course: Neuro Chairs: Jo Wilmshurst, South Africa and Disorders & Movement Disorders
Chairs: TBA and TBA
Rheumatology Augustina Charway-Felli, Ghana Chairs: Jean-Philipe Azulay, France and TBA
(Cont'd)
11:00 - Rheumatology and NMO
Overlap
Kazuo Fujihara, Japan
11:45 - Immunotherapy in Neuro-
Rheumatology (ANTI-CD19/20, IL6,
TNF-A)
Brian Weinshenker, USA

International Pharma
Sponsored Symposium
Industry Session 4
Lunch Break, Poster and E-Poster
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Industry Session 23 Industry Session 26 Industry Session 27 Industry Session 28 Industry Session 29
Industry Session 25
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Japanese Pharma Sponsored (12:55-13:45) (12:55-13:45)
International Pharma Sponsored Symposium Symposium
Industry Session 5 Industry Session 24
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Industry Session 33
Industry Session 30 Industry Session 31 Industry Session 32
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(13:50-14:40)
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M5c: Prion Like Mechanisms

and Neurological Disease and
Asian-Oceanian Regional Teaching Course 25: Neuro-
Novel Targets Treatment - Prion- Teaching Course 24: Movement Disorders II - Free Papers: Dementia 3 Free Papers: Autoimmune Disorders 2
T15: Child Neurology - Neonatal Encephalopathy Symposium - Gene Therapy - A Otology - Vertigo: Whats Old,
M4c: Stroke - Hot Topics in Asia like Disease Targets: Upstream, T16a: CNS Infections and Tropical Neurology - CNS Teaching Course 23: Epilepsy II - Update Lesson Current Topics of Hyperkinetic Movement Chairs: Jera Kruja, Albania and Ammar Saeed Bohlega, Saudi Arabia and Minerva Lopez Free Papers: Movement Disorders 3
and Neuroprotection Reality in Neurology Whats Good, Whats New and
14:45 - 16:15 Chairs: TBA and Kazuo Center, Downstream? Infections of Epilepsy Disorders E.M.A. Babikir, Sudan Ruiz, Mexico Chairs: Jeon Beomseok (BJ), Republic of Korea
Chairs: Jo Wilmshurst, South Africa and Shozo Chairs: Man Mohan Whats Acute
Minematsu, Japan Chairs: Hidehiro Mizusawa, Chairs: TBA and TBA Chairs: Riki Matsumoto, Japan and TBA Chairs: Hideki Mochizuki, Japan and and Eduardo Tolosa, Spain
Tobimatsu, Japan Mehndiratta, India and Takanori Chairs: Thomas Brandt. Germany
Japan and Colin Masters, Francisco Cardoso, Brazil
Yokota, Japan and Adolfo Bronstein, UK
Australia

(14:45-14:50)
Introduction
Neurological Manifestations of Herpes Virus
Intracranial Atherosclerosis: Gene Regulation HIE and Neuroprotection
Infections
14:15 - 15:10 Whats New Don Cleveland, USA Michael Johnston, USA (14:50-15:10)
Tom Solomon, UK
K.S. Lawrence Wong, Hong Kong ALS
Jung-Joon Sung, Republic of
Korea

Protein Aggregation Congenital HIV Neurological Complications of Arbovirus Infections

Cerebral Venous Thrombosis (15:10-15:30)
Katsumi Doh-ura, Japan Jo Wilmshurst, South Africa Cristiane Soares, Brazil 14:45 - Genetic of Hyperkinetic Movement 14:45 - Clinical History and
15:10 - 15:35 Jeyaraj Pandian, India Parkinsons Disease Shinichi 14:45 - SUDEP
Muramatsu, Japan Disorders Assessment of Vertigo Patients
Gordon Buchanan, USA
Bob Chin Song Lu, Taiwan Thomas Brandt, Germany
15:30 - Genetics of Idiopathic Epilepsies
15:30 - Auto-Immune Movement Disorders 15:30 - Is it a Stroke? - Vascular
Riadh Gouider, Tunisia
Should The tPA Dose be Congenital Zika Virus Syndromes (15:30-15:50) Francisco Cardoso, Brazil Aspects of Vertigo
Clearance (Antibody-Mediated) Bacterial CNS Infections
15:35 - 16:00 Lowered? Vanessa Van Der Linden, Brazil AADC Deficiency Ji-Soo Kim, Republic of Korea
John Collinge, UK Diederik Van de Beek, The Netherlands
Ming Liu, China Wuh-Liang Hwu, Taiwan

(15:50-16:10)
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Yoshitsugu Aoki, Japan
16:00 - 16:15 Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion

(16:10-16:15)
Discussion & Closing

Coffee Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit

16:15-16:45

T17: Environmental and Teaching Course: Neuro-Otology - Free Papers: Neuroimaging Free Papers: Neurophysiology 1
M4d: Stroke - Prevention T16b: CNS Infections and Tropical Neurology - Teaching Course: Epilepsy II - Update Lesson of Teaching Course: Movement Disorders II - Free Papers: MS & Demyelinating Diseases
Nutritional Disorders T18: History of Neurology Vertigo: Whats Old, Whats Chairs: Abdias V. Aquino, Philippines Chairs: TBA and Nazha Birouk, Morocco
16:45-18:15 Chairs: Shinichiro Uchiyama, Tropical Neurolog Epilepsy Current Topics of Hyperkinetic Movement Chairs: TBA and TBA
Chairs: Jacques Reis, France and Chairs: George York, USA and TBA Good, Whats New and Whats and Arsalan Ahmed, Pakistan
Japan and TBA Chairs:TBA and Nicholas Davies, UK (Cont'd) Disorders (Cont'd)
Yoshihiro Kokubo, Japan Acute (Cont'd)

Air Pollution an Emerging Risk (16:45-17:05)

The Big Picture
Factor for Stroke The History of James Parkinson and His Disease Stroke in Africa
16:45 - 17:10 Vladimir Hachinski, Canada
Jacques Reis, France George York, USA Amadou Gallo Diop, Senegal

16:45 - Paroxysmal Vestibular

Atrial Fibrillation - Practical Issues
17:10 - 17:35 Shinichiro Uchiyama, Japan
Intervention for Stroke
Prevention for Carotid and
17:35 - 18:00 Intracranial Disease
Deidre De Silva, Singapore
How Nutrition Can Help to
Prevent Cardio-Vascular Risk
Yoshihiro Kokubo, Japan
Plant Toxins and Neurological
Disease
Peter Spencer, USA
Nottingham and the early days of MRI Scanning
Disorders
(17:05-17:25)
Adolfo Bronstein, UK
100 Years of the Guillain-Barr Syndrome Epilepsy in India and Beyond 16:45 - Lesson of Psychiatric Complication for
16:45 - Classification and Pathophysiology of
Gerard Said, France Parthasarthy Satishchandra, India Neurologists
Myoclonus 17:25 - Functional and Psychiatric
Kosuke Kanemoto, Japan
Hiroshi Shibasaki, Japan Vestibular Disorders
Jeffrey Staab, USA
17:30 - Essence of EEG in Epilepsy
17:30 - An Update on Tremor
John Dunne, Australia
(17:25-17:45) Werner Poewe, Austria 18:05 - Round Table and Q&A:
Dawn of the Modern Neurology in Japan Differential Diagnosis of the Acute
Makoto Iwata, Japan Vertigo Patient
Rickett Sial Neurological Infections
(17:45-18:05) Paul Newton, UK
Richard Godwin-Austen, UK

(18:05 - 18:15)
18:00 - 18:15 Discussion Discussion Discussion
Discussion

Main Hall - Plenary
07:00 - 08:00
Plenary Lecture 7: Neurology
Atlas
(08:00-08:30)
Chairs: Raad Shakir, UK and
Hidehiro Mizusawa, Japan
Speaker:Tarun Dua, Switzerland
08:00-9:15
Plenary Lecture 8: Recent
Progress in IPS Cell Research and
Application
(08:30-09:15)
Chairs: Raad Shakir, UK and
Hidehiro Mizusawa, Japan
Speaker: Shinya Yamanaka, Japan
M7a: Dementia - From SCI to
M6a: Movement Disorders -
MCI: Prodromal Phases of
Motor PD
09:15-10:45
Chairs: Nobutaka Hattori, Japan
Chairs: Vincent Mok, Hong Kong
and Victor Fung, Australia
and Murat Emre, Turkey
Advances in the Genetics of PD
09:15 - 09:40 Nobutaka Hattori, Japan
Treatment of Advanced
Parkinson's Disease
09:40 - 10:05
Angelo Antonini, Italy
Emerging Therapies for PD
10:05 - 10:30 Olivier Rascol, France
10:30 - 10:45 Discussion
10:45 - 11:15
M6b: Movement Disorders - Non- M7b: Dementia - Alzheimer
Motor PD
11:15-12:45
Chairs: David Burn, UK and Victor Chairs: Shinsuke Fujioka, Japan
Fung, Australia
Diagnosis and Management of
Psychiatric Manifestations of PD
11:15 - 11:40
Atbin Djamshidian, Austria
Diagnosis and Management of
Cognitive Impairment in PD and
11:40 - 12:05 DLB
David Burn, UK
The Influence of the
Gastrointestinal System in PD
12:05 - 12:30
Ronald Pfeiffer, USA
12:30 - 12:45 Discussion
Annex Hall 1
Dementia
SCI: What is it, What Does it
Predict
Dorene Rentz, USA
MCI: Clinical Phenotypes and
Progression
Ricardo Nitrini, Brazil
Prodromal Lewy Body Disease:
Features and Predictors
Hiroshige Fujishiro, Japan
Discussion
Disease Update
and Murat Emre, Turkey
Current Understanding of AD
Pathophysiology
Changiz Geula, USA
Molecular Imaging and CSF
Biomarkers
Sang Won Seo, Republic of
Korea
New Treatment Strategies
Ali Reza Atri, USA
Discussion
Room A
T19: WHO Initiatives
Chairs: TBA and Raad Shakir, UK
Neurology Resources Around The World
Raad Shakir, UK
Tools And Guidelines for Enhancing Neurological
Care: ICD-11 and mhGAP
Tarun Dua, Switzerland
Public Health Impact and Response to Dementia
Raad Shakir, UK / Tarun Dua, Switzerland
Discussion
11:15-12:15
Tournament of The Minds: Semi Final
Chairs: Nicholas Davies, United Kingdom and TBA
Annex Hall 2
Morning Teaching Course 36
Gait Disorders
Chair: TBA
Speaker: Mark Hallett, USA
Japanese Scientific Session 4
Chairs: Koji Abe, Japan and Tatsuji Toda, Japan Chairs: Albert Ludolph, Germany Chairs: Yoshikazu Ugawa, Japan and Matthew
Myopathy Genetics
Yoshihide Sunada, Japan
Neuropathy Genetics
Haruki Koike, Japan
Myopathy Pathology
Jun Shimizu, Japan
Discussion
11:15-12:15
Tournament of The Minds: Semi Final
Chairs: Andrea Vass, Austria and TBA
Room D
T20a: Motor Neuron Disease -
Clinical Evoked Potential, TMS - Central Physiology
and Ryuji Kaji, Japan
Guidelines For ALS Clinical Trials
(Airlie House 2016) and Clinical
Criteria (The Diagnosis WFN
Research Group 2015- A Critical
Appraisal)
Hiroshi Mitsumoto, USA
The Clinical Picture and
Demographics of ALS in China
Liying Cui, China
Current and Emerging Therapies
for ALS - Pharmacology,
Nutrition and Ventilation
Ryuji Kaji, Japan
Discussion
T20b: Motor Neuron Disease -
Basic Evoked Potential, TMS - Peripheral Physiology
Chairs: Albert Ludolph, Germany Chairs: Yoshikazu Ugawa, Japan and Matthew
and TBA
ALS - A Multisystem
Degeneration
Albert Ludolph, Germany
The Prion Concept and ALS
Magdalini Polymenidou,
Switzerland
SBMA (Kennedys disease) and
ALS: Development of disease-
Inflammatory Neuropathy David Cornblath, USA
modifying therapy
Gen Sobue, Japan
Discussion
Room E
M8a: Clinical Neurophysiology NCS, EMG,
Kiernan, Australia
What is activated by TMS?
Walter Paulus, Germany
Tracking Neurodegeneration by TMS
Matthew Kiernan, Australia
TMS Treatment of Parkinson's Disease
Yoshikazu Ugawa, Japan
Discussion
M8b: Clinical Neurophysiology NCS, EMG,
Kiernan, Australia
Painful Neuropathy
Renato Verdugo, Chile
POEMS
Satoshi Kuwabara, Japan
Discussion
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
Swan Hall
Teaching Course 26: Sleep Disorders
Chairs: Claudia Trenkwalder, Germany and
Yuichi Inoue, Japan
09:15 - Treatment Strategy for Chronic
Insomnia
Yuichi Inoue, Japan
10:00 - Evidenced Based Therapy of Restless
Legs Syndrome
Juliane Winkelmann, Germany
Coffee Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit
Teaching Course: Sleep Disorders (Cont'd)
11:15 -Sleep in Parkinson and Alzheimer
Disease; Current Assessment and Therapy
Keisuke Suzuki, Japan
12:00 - Movement Disorders in Sleep: An
Overview with Video Examples
Claudia Trenkwalder, Germany
Room B-1 Room B-2 Room C-1 Room C-2 Room H Room G
Teaching Course 27: Palatucci
Advocacy Course and Young Free Papers: Stem Cells and Gene Free Papers: Neurophysiology 2
Neurologists Corner Therapy Chairs: Renato Verdugo, Chile and Mark Hallett,
Chairs: Elaine Jones, USA and Tissa Chairs: TBA and TBA USA
Wijeratne, Australia
09:15 - Opening Remarks and
Faculty Introductions
Tissa Wijeratne, Australia
09:20 - Speech from WFN
President: Raad Shakir, UK
09:30 - Speech from the WFN
Education Committee Chair: Steven
Lewis, USA
09:45 - Introduction to Advocacy:
What, Why, How
Elaine Jones, USA
10:15 - Action Planning
Mohamad Wasay, Pakistan
10:45 - Media & Advocacy
Tissa Wijeratne, Australia
Teaching Course: Palatucci Free Papers: Late Breaking Oral Session II
Free Papers: Stroke 4
Advocacy Course and Young Chairs: TBA and Jihad Inshasi, UAE
Chairs: Gilmar Prado, Brazil and TBA
Neurologists Cornery (Cont'd)
11:15 - Resources and Funding,
Project Management, Including
Advocacy Examples from Other
Societies
Wolfgang Grisold, Austria
11:45 - Planning Research -
European Research Council (ERC)
Of the European Commission
Nicolas Voilley, Belgium
12:15 - All Faculty - Advocacy Topic
Discussions, Begin Working on
Action Plans
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Industry Session 35 Industry Session 37 Industry Session 38 Industry Session 39
Industry Session 36
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(12:55-13:45) (12:55-13:45) (12:55-13:45)

Japanese Pharma
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Industry Session 34
12:45 - 14:45 Lunch Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit
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T23a: Neurological Sleep

T21a: Stem Cells in Neurology, Regenerative
M6c: Movement Disorders - Disorders - Sleep in
M7c: Dementia - Non-AD Medicine, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPS) - Teaching Course 29: Motor Neuron
Hyperkinetic Movement T22: Functional Disorders in Neurology Neurological Disorders and M8c: Clinical Neurophysiology NCS, EMG, Teaching Course 28: Peripheral Neuropathy Teaching Course: Palatucci
Degenerative Dementias Modeling of Ggenetics Using Induced Pluripotent Disease
14:45-16:15 Disorders Chairs: Saeed Bohlega, Saudi Arabia and Jon Stone, Health Care Evoked Potential, TMS - Invasive Studies Chairs: Jean Marc Leger, France and Susumu Advocacy Course and Young
Chairs: Vincent Mok, hong Kong Stem Cells Chairs: Matthew Kiernan, Australia
Chairs: Ritsuko Hanajima, Japan UK Chairs: Claudia Tenkwalder, Chairs: Satoshi Kuwabara, Japan and TBA Kusunoki, Japan Neurologists Corner (Cont'd)
and Hiroshige Fujishiro, Japan Chairs: Michela Deleidi, Germany and Ryosuke and Ryuji Kaji, Japan
and Victor Fung, Australia Germany and Yuichi Inoue,
Takahashi, Japan
Japan

Update on Myoclonus Sleep and Epilepsy:

Syndromes IPSC Cell Modeling of Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurological Assessment and Explanation of Phenomenology and Differential
Suspected Non-Alzheimer Intraoperative Monitoring
Marina De Koning-Tijssen, The Such as ALS, Alzheimers and Frontal Temporal Diagnosis of Functional (Psychogenic) Disorders Diagnosis
14:45 - 15:10 Pathology (SNAP): What is it? David Burke, Australia
Netherlands Dementia Jon Stone, UK Seung Bong Hong, Republic of
Akiyoshi Kakita (Japan)
Haruhisa Inoue, Japan Korea

14:45 - International Working

Group of Young Neurologists and
14:45 - How to Use Guidelines in the
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Mirroring Many of Trainees; An Update 14:45 - Overview of ALS and Other
Lewy Body Related Dementias: How to Assess Sleep in Diagnosis of Inflammatory Neuropathies?
Update on Dystonia Syndromes The Parkinsonian Cell Biological Deficits Seen in Diagnosis of Functional (Psychogenic) Movement Subdural Recording in Epilepsy Tissa Wijeratne, Australia Motor Neuron Disease
An Update Neurological Disorders John England, USA
15:10 - 15:35 Victor Fung, Australia Patients Disorders Riki Matsumoto, Japan Matthew Kiernan, Australia
Murat Emre, Turkey Luigi Ferini-Strambi, Italy
Michela Deleidi, Germany Chafiq Hicham, Morocco
15:15 - Women in Neurology; Asia 15:30 - How to Diagnose ALS? -
15:30 - How to Use Guidelines in the
Oceania Physiological Criteria
Treatment of Inflammatory Neuropathies?
Ayae Kinoshita, Japan Ryuji Kaji, Japan
Jean Marc Leger, France

15:45 - Career Panel Q&A - Jones,

Neurological and Medical Wijeratne, Wolfgang, Wasay
Modeling Biology Using Pluripotent Stem Cells:
Update on Chorea FTLD: Genotypes and Disorders Associated with DBS in Movement Disorders
Aging Models for Longevity and Its Role in Treatment of Functional Disorders in Neurology
15:35 - 16:00 Francisco Cardoso, Brazil Phenotypes Restless Legs Syndrome Robert Chen, Canada
Neurodegenerative Diseases as Well as Cancer Alan Carson, UK
Shinsuke Fujioka, Japan Claudia Trenkwalder, Germany
Hideyuki Okano, Japan

16:00 - 16:15 Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion

16:15-16:45 Coffee Break, Poster and E-Poster Viewing and Exhibition Visit

T23b: Neurological Sleep

M6d: Movement Disorders - Hot
Topics in Movement Disorders
16:45-18:15
Chairs: TBA and Mark Hallett, Chairs: Etsuro Mori, Japan and
USA
T21b: Stem Cells in Neurology, Regenerative African Academy of Neurology Regional
M7d: Dementia - Other Disorders - New Insights into
Medicine, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPS) - Symposium - Defining the Future of Neurology Teaching Course: Palatucci Free Papers: Neuroophthalmology & Free Papers: Organization of Neurological Care
Dementias Sleep and Neurodegeneration Teaching Course: Peripheral Neuropathy Teaching Course: Motor Neuron
Use of Pluripotent Stem Cells for Regenerative in Africa: From the Past, into the Future Advocacy Course and Young Neurootology/Vestibular disorders & Neurorehabilitation
Chairs: Claudia Trenkwalder, (Cont'd) Disease (Cont'd)
Medicine Chairs: Yomi Ogun, Nigeria and Augustina Neurologists Corner (Cont'd) Chairs: TBA and TBA Chairs: Eduard Auff, Austria and TBA
Murat Emre, Turkey Germany and Koichi Hirata,
Chairs: Jun Takahashi, Japan and TBA Charway-Felli, Ghana
Japan

Care Provision: Clinical Services and The Practice 16:45 - Young Neurologists Corner;
Towards Diagnosing PD at The RBD as The Most Specific Open Forum (Young Neurologists
Vascular Cognitive Impairment of Neurology In Africa: The Good, The Bad and
Prodromal Stage Use of IPSC Derived Dopamine Neurons to Cure Feature of Prodromal Parkinson and Medical Students Corner
16:45 - 17:10 Raj Kalaria, UK The Ugl
Eduardo Tolosa, Spain The Movement Disorder of Parkinsons TBA Disease Chairs: TBA and Tissa Wijeratne,
Yomi Ogun, Nigeria
Birgit Hgl, Austria Australia

About Expectation of Neurology

and Neurological Sciences in Future
(3 min presentation by each
speaker, 2 minutes questions)

Education and Training in The Neurosciences: 1. Japanese resident doctor

The Patient With a Complex
Movement Disorder: Lessons
17:10 - 17:35
From Next Generation Genetics
Matthew Farrer, Canada
Psychogenic Movement
Disorders
17:35 - 18:00
Mark Hallett, USA
Dementias With Mixed
Interneuron transplantation for treating epilepsy
Pathology
Vincent Mok, Hong Kong
Normal Pressure
Hydrocephalus: From Novel Technologies and Innovations Using iPS Cells
Mechanism to Management
Etsuro Mori, Japan
Sleep in Parkinson and
Training in Neurology: Current Status and (Kumamoto University)
Alzheimer Disease: Current
Future 2. Japanese medical school student
Sangmi Chung, USA Assessment and Therapy
Osheik Seidi, Sudan from overseas (Kyushu University) 16:45 - What Are Stem Cell Therapies?
Koichi Hirata, Japan 16:45 - Antibody Associated Inflammatory
3. Chinese young neurologist (TBA) Seung Hyun Kim, Republic of Korea
Neuropathies
4. Korean young neurologist (TBA)
Susumu Kusunoki, Japan
5. Taiwanese young neurologist 17:30 - What to Tell and Do for ALS
(TBA) Patients Including Alternative
17:30 - Diabetic Neuropathies: Glycemic
6. Indian Young Neurologist (TBA) Therapies
Controls and What Else?
7. Sri Lanka Young Neurologist Hiroshi Mitsumoto, USA
Eva Feldman, USA
(Manjula Caldera, Sri Lanka)
8. Thailand young Neurologist (Kitti
Research: Neuroscience Research in Africa:
Impacts of Sleep Loss and Tiankhaw, Thailand)
Current Status and Future Direction
for Cell Therapy in Neurological Diseases Insomnia on Brain Damage 9. Africa young Neurologist (Rufus
Foad Abd-Allah, Egypt
Jun Takahashi, Japan Yuichi Inoue, Japan Akinemi)
10. Pakistan young Neurologist
(Dr. Abdul Malik, Pakistan)
11. Round table discussion

17:15 - All Faculty - Action Planning

Work and Presentations, in small
groups

17:45 - WFN Activities and

18:00 - 18:15 Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion Discussion Advocating Standards in Training
Worldwide and Closing Remarks
Wolfgang Grisold, Austria

Main Hall - Plenary
Plenary Lecture 9: Singhal Award
Lecture - Targeted Therapies for
Dominant Ataxias
(08:00-08:30)
Chairs: Wolfgang Grisold, Austria
and Morris Freedman, Canada
Speaker: Stefan Pulst , USA
08:00 - 09:00
Plenary Lecture 10: Physician
workplace stress - is it only an
American phenomenon?
(08:30-09:00)
Chairs: Wolfgang Grisold, Austria
and Morris Freedman, Canada
Speaker: Terrence Cascino, USA
T24: Big Data and Personalized
Medicine
09:00 - 10:30
Chairs: TBA and Helmut
Butzkueven, Australia
Population Level Neuroimaging
for Neuroepidemiology; A New
09:00 - 09:25 Healthcare Big Data Frontier
Paul Matthews, UK
Large Scale Data Integration for The Surgical and Other Invasive
Discovery of Disease Mechanisms
09:25 - 09:50
and Potential Therapeutic Targets Gnther Deuschl, Germany
Sergio Baranzini (USA)
Building a Global Disease Cohort
for Real-Work Data Exploration:
09:50 - 10:15 MSBase
Helmut Butzkueven, Australia
10:15 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
11:00 - 11:25
11:25 - 11:50
11:50 - 12:15
12:15 - 12:30
12:30 - 12:45
Tournament of The Minds: Final
12:45 - 14:00 Chairs: Richard Stark, Australia,
TBA and Nicholas Davies, UK
14:00 - 14:30 Closing Ceremony
Annex Hall 1
European Regional Symposium -
Different Views on the
Treatment of Parkinsons
Teaching Course 30: Neuro-Ophthalmology
Disease
Chairs: Valerie Biousse, France and Vivek Lal, India
Chairs: Gnther Deuschl,
Germany and Werner Poewe,
Austria
The Medical Treatment
Werner Poewe, Austria
Treatments
The Role of Non-Medical and
Non-Surgical Interventions
Jorik Nonnekes, The
Netherlands
Discussion
T25: Peripheral Neuropathy
Chairs: Jean Marc Leger, France Teaching Course: Neuro-Ophthalmology (Cont'd)
and Hiroshi Takashima, Japan
New Frontiers in Guillain-Barr
Syndrome
John England, USA
Genetic Testing in Peripheral
Neuropathies
Hiroshi Takashima, Japan
New Therapeutic Strategies in
Chronic Inflammatory
Neuropathies
Jean Marc Leger, France
Discussion
Room A
09:00 - Diagnosis of Optic Neuropathies &
Papilledema and Idiopathic Intracranial
Hypertension
Nancy Newman, USA
09:45 - Anisocoria & Third Nerve Palsy
Valerie Biousse, France
11:00 - Management of Optic Neuritis & Giant Cell
Arteritis
Vivek Lal, India
11:45 - Diagnosis of Nystagmus & Treatment of
Nystagmus
Caroline Tilikete, France
Annex Hall 2
Teaching Course 31: EMG and Neurophysiology
Workshop: Basic
Chair: Jun Kimura, USA
09:00 - Motor Nerve Conduction Studies
Jun Kimura, USA
09:45 - Sensory Nerve Conduction Studies
Zouhayr Souirti, Morocco
Teaching Course: EMG and Neurophysiology
Workshop: Basic (Cont'd)
11:00 - F Wave and H Reflex
Joo Nobrega, Brazil
11:45 - Needle Electromyography
Nobuo Kohara, Japan
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2017
Room D Room E Swan Hall Room B-1 Room B-2 Room C-1 Room C-2 Room H Room G
Teaching Course 32: EMG and
Neurophysiology Workshop: Free Papers: Miscellaneous 1
Free Papers: Channelopathies + Epilepsy Free Papers: Neurogenetics Free Papers: Stroke 5 Free Papers: Pain
Advanced Chairs: TBA and Natalya
Chairs: TBA and TBA Chairs: TBA and TBA Chairs: TBA and TBA Chairs: TBA and TBA
Chairs: Josep Valls-Sole, Spain Tcinzerling, Russia
and TBA
9:00 - Neurophysiological Tests
for the Assessment of Small
Fibers
Renato Verdugo, Chile
Coffee Break outside session halls
Teaching Course: EMG and Free Papers: Headache
Free Papers: Miscellaneous 2 Free Papers: Neurooncology Free Papers: Movement Disorders 4
Neurophysiology Workshop: Chairs: Jasem Al-Hashel, Kuwait and
Chairs:TBA and TBA Chairs: TBA and TBA Chairs: TBA and TBA
Advanced (Cont'd) Russell Lane, UK
10:30 - Cranial Nerve Testing
Josep Valls-Sole, Spain
11:30 - Nerve Excitability Testing
Hiroyuki Nodera, Japan
Short Break