PLENARY SESSIONS (2021-2023)
DIAGNOSIS and RELATED TREATMENT STRATEGIES
- Recognize and Treat seizures and epilepsies in neonates
- An aetiology based approach of treatment strategies of epileptic spasms (including infantile spasms)
- Recognize and Treat Generalized Genetic (Idiopathic) Epilepsies
- Recognize and treat Focal genetic (idiopathic) epilepsies
- Recognize and treat with AEDs Focal non-idiopathic (structural) Epilepsies in children: Recommendations and Guidelines
- Recognize and treat FRONTAL LOBE Epilepsies in children (From Syndromes to Localizations)
- Recognize and treat TEMPORAL LOBE Epilepsies in children (From Syndromes to Localizations)
- Recognize and treat POSTERIOR CORTEX Epilepsies in children (From Syndromes to Localizations)
- Recognize and Treat Metabolic and Progressive Myoclonic epilepsies
- Genetics of the Epilepsies in 2020-2022
- How genetic mutations can determine genetic counseling and our treatment choices
- Neuroimaging of Focal Cortical Dysplasias & other malformations of cortical develoopment
- The neuropathology of Focal Cortical Dysplasias
- Cerebral infection or Vascular lesions and Epilepsy: when surgery is a treatment option ?
- Hypothalamic Hamartomas: seizures, neuroimaging and treatment approaches
- Clinically guided neuropsychological evaluation in children with epilepsy (including pre- and post-surgical)
- Long-term epilepsy associated tumors: who should treat them and why
- To treat or Not to Treat the EEG
ANTIEPILEPTIC DRUGS, DIETARY TREATMENTS, TARGETED THERAPIES
- Antiepileptic Drugs 1: Mechanisms, interactions and spectrum of action;
- Antiepileptic Drugs 2: Pharmacokinetics of AEDS from neonates to adolescents
- Regulatory versus Post-marketing trials: how to read the results
- KETOGENIC DIET: indications and state-of-the-art
- Pre-treatment and treatment of Convulsive & Non-Convulsive Status Epilepticus in children
- Treatment of frequent comorbidities in pediatric epilepsies (ADHD; Anxiety; Depression; psychogenic events)
- Time to Stop (or not) AEDs following surgery
- Contraception and AEDs; Pregnancy and AEDs; Post-partum and AEDs
- VNS: indications, implantation and follow-up adjustments
WHAT A CLINICAN NEEDS TO KNOW OF SURGICAL TECHNIQUES: certainties & risks
- Surgical approaches for the treatment of cortical dysplasias
- Surgical techniques Lobectomy; Focal cortical resection
- Callosotomy; Hemispherectomy; Multilobar resections
TRAINING SESSIONS (2021-2023) limited to 15 participants and 2-3 mentors (all participants rotate to all training sessions)
- Which genetic test and how do I incorporate it in my treatment strategy
- Combining mTOR inhibitors and antiseizure drugs
- Anatomo-Electro-Clinical Correlations (based on clinical cases of variable semiology and aetiology)
- FCDs and corresponding EEG patterns: do they influencce treatment strategies
- MRI training: which sequences when looking for what
- Recognize and classify various histopathological substrates of pharmaco-resistant epilepsies
- Recognize and classify together with your neuropathologist epileptogenic tumors
- What you always wanted to know about rational AED combinations but were afraid to ask a pharlmacologist
- Treatment choices for neonatal seizures and epilepsies
- Treatment of IGEs (which AED associations; aggravating AEDs; Pregnancy issues)
- Using STEROIDS for the treatment of Infantile Spasms, LKS, LGS, Other
- Treatment options is rare lesional epilepsies/ Tuberous Sclerosis; Sturge-Weber;
- Ketogenic follow-up for the clinician (instauration and follow-up)
- Identifying and Treating Autoimmune Epilepsies
- Treating syndromes and epilepsies presenting with mixed types of seizures (Dravet; LGS;)
- How to rationalize AED treatment in children and adolescents with genetic epilepsy syndromes and generalized seizures only