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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM



9.30 Benefit from neuromonitoring of acute spinal cord injury
Mini Symposium 2h
M.R. Dimitrijevic
10.30 COFFEE BREAK

CHAIRMEN: William Hoyen - Angelika Mautes
11.30 Alternative, complementary and energy-based healing for spinal cord injury
Laurance Johnston (USA)
11.45 Electrophysiological effects of 4-aminopyridine on fictive locomotor activity of the rat spinal cord in vitro
Giuliano Taccola (Italy)
12.00 The treatment of sacral pressure sores in patients with spinal lesions
Teodor Stamate (Romania)
12.20 LUNCH BREAK

CHAIRMEN: Tetsuo Kanno
14.45 Reduced postoperative activation in surgically transferred muscles to restore lateral pinch in tetraplegia
Vincent Hentz (USA)
15.00 Innovations for spasticity modulation
William Hoyen (USA)
15.20 Potential clinical protocol for repair in spinal cord contusion injury: radiation therapy combined with myelotomy
Nurit Kalderon (USA)
15.35 The role of neuromodulation in neurorehabilitation
Hans van der Aa (Netherlands)
15.50 The search for central pattern generators for swallowing in humans
Mario Prosiegel (Germania)
16.05 Lateral pinch force decreases with elbow flexion following BR-FPL tendon transfer
Vincent Hentz (USA)
16.20 Functional neurorehabilitation in Locked-in Syndrome following decompression C0-C1
Klaus von Wild (Germany)
16.40 COFFEE BREAK

CHAIRMEN: John Bethea
17.00 Early intervation in spinal cord injury
William Hoyen (USA)
17.15 Recent advance of dorsum column stimulation for persistent vegetative state
Tetsuo Kanno (Japan)
17.40 Stress response to SCI parte 1
Angelika Mautes
18.00 Macrophages and dendritic cells for treatment of spinal cord injury: from the bench to the clinic
Eti Yoles (Israel)
18.20 Syringomielia after SCI
Hans Jaksche (Germany)

ORE 21.00: Concert at the Teatro Sociale in the Heart of Brescia - Click for the Program






CHAIRMEN: Klaus Von Wild – Vincent Hentz
9.00 Spinal Cord Injury and the residual potential: treatment base strategies
Mini Symposium 2h
11.00 CNS PNS connection in SCI
G. Brunelli, PF. Spano, S. Barlati, M. Pizzi, B. Guarneri (Italy)
11.30 Spinal Cord Injury and neural stem cells transplantation
D. Bottai, Laura Madaschi, Fabrizio Gelain, Barbara di Stefano, Alfredo Gorio, Angelo L. Vescovi
11.45 Invited lecture
Rita Levi Montalcini (Italy) Guest of Honour
12.15 Official Opening Ceremony

FREE AFTERNOON


18.00 WFNS Delegates meeting and get together
20.00 Social Dinner in Brescia's Town Hall






CHAIRMEN: William Hoyen – Takamitsu Yamamoto
8.30 Stress response after experimental spinal cord injury part 2
Angelika Mautes (Germany)
8.50 Thoracic T9-T10 spinal cord gap repair with newborn sciatic nerve graft compared with
lumbar L2-L3 spinal cord gap repair. A study in wistar rat
Maria Angelica Almeida (Portugal)
9.05 Inhibition of NF-kB activation in the CNS results in improved functional recovery following spinal cord injury in mice
John Bethea (USA)
9.20 Surgical rehabilitation of upper limb function in tetraplegia. An update: report from the
18^th International Congress on Upper Limb Surgery in Tetraplegia, Christchurch, New Zeland, February 26-29, 2004
Vincent Hentz (USA)
9.45 Deep brain stimulation in degenerative versus traumatic basal ganglia disorders
H. M. Mehdorn, M. Pinsker, B. Schrader, J. Herzog (Germany)


CHAIRMEN: Teodor Stamate – Maria Angelica Almeida
10.20 Autologous macrophage in “Procord” injection in spinal cord. A new hope for spinal cord injury patients?
Sir Jacques Brotchi (Begium) (Guest of Honor)
10.50 The effect of penile vibratory stimulation on spasticity, neurogenic detrusor overactivity and male fertility potential
Fin Biering-Sorensen (DK)
11.10 Brain mind interfaces
Miguel Nicolelis (USA)
11.55 Autologous incubated macrophages treatment in patients with acute complete spinal injury
Nachson Knoller (Israel)
12.10 Spinal cord gap repair by means of a human amniotic membrane tube seeded with Schwan cells
compared with lumbar L2-L3 spinal cord gap repair
Maria Angelica Almeida (Portugal)




CHAIRMEN: Jacques Brotchi - Wai Sang Poon - Nguyen Van Toan
14.15 Pallidal surgery for generallized dystonia
Takaomi Taira (Japan)
14.30 Clinical study in post-traumatic epilepsy: prophylaxis and risk factors
Claudio Perino (Italy)
14.45 Deep brain stimulation in patients in a persistent vegetative or minimally conscious state
Takamitsu Yamamoto (Japan)
15.05 Surgery for skull base injuries
Alexander Potapov (Russia) Guest of Honour
15.25 Traumatic Brain Injury: predicting its outcome at the beginning of rehabilitation
Wai Sang Poon,X.L.Zhu,Stephanie Ng (Hong Kong)
15.40 Neuropsycological experiences in acute neurotraumatology
Anne-Lise Christensen (DK)
16.00 Evidence based neurorehabilitation
Volker Hoemberg
16.15 COFFEE BREAK


CHAIRMEN: R. Heilbronner - Alessandro Ducati - Rimantas Vilcinis
16.30 Severe brain injuries in children
Alexandru Ciurea (Romania)
16.45 Restoration of hearing by molecular biological tools: the IN-1 antagonist neurite growth inhibitors
Marcos Tatagiba (Germany)
17.00 Restoration of hearing by biotechnological tools: the auditory brainstem implant
Marcos Tatagiba (Germany)
17.15 Reorganization of cerebral circuits in human brain lesion
R. J. Seitz (Germany)
17.40 Treating the Aging Brain: Cortical reorganization and behavior
H. R. Dinse (Germany)


CHAIRMEN: M. Fritsch - H.M. Mehdorn - Nicole von Steinbuechel
18.05 Extradural Motor Cortex Stimulation (EMCS) for Parkinson's disease. History and first
results by the Study Group of the Italian Neurosurgical Society
Carlo Alberto Pagni, M.G. Altibrandi, A. Bentivoglio, G. caruso, B. Cioni, C. Fiorella, A. Insola, A. Lavano,
R. Maina, P. Mazzone, C.D. Signorelli, C. Sturiale, F. Valzania, S. Zeme, F. Zenga (Italy)
18.20 Early clinical prognostic factors in severe brain injured patients with prolonged disturbance of cosciousness
Rita Formisano (Italy)
18.35 Hormone disturbances and replacement in TBI
Michael Buchfelder (Germany)
18.55 Physiological recording from electrodes implanted in the human basal ganglia
Alberto Priori, Guglielmo Foffani (Italy)
19.10 Neurosurgical management of cervical dystonia
Takaomi Taira (Japan)
19.25 Treatment options and results in cervical myelopathy
H. M. Mehdorn, M. Fritsch (Germany)
19.40 Taylored implants for large size cranioplasty. Surgical, functional and economical aspects
Bernd Hoffmann (Germany)



CHAIRMEN: Alexander Potapov - Alexandru Ciurea
8.30 Results in brachial plexus palsy after biceps neuro-muscular neurotisation associated with
neuro-neural neurotisation and teno-muscolar transfer
Teodor Stamate (Romania)
8.45 Surgical resuscitation for severe cervical cord injury
Motoi Shoda (Japan)
9.00 Surgical strategy for acute central spinal cord injury syndrome associated with cervical developmental canal stenosis
Sadahiro Maejima (Japan)
9.15 Surgical management of cerebral contusions
Koichiro Sumi (Japan)
9.30 Swallowing therapy - a prospective study on 208 patients with neurogenic dysphagia
Mario Prosiegel (Germania)
9.50 Transcranical magnetic stimulation in neurorehabilitation
Joachim Liepert (Germany)
10.10 COFFEE BREAK


CHAIRMEN: Anne Lise Christensen - Motoi Shoda
10.30 The locked-in syndrome: a syndrome looking for a therapy
Josè Leòn-Carrion (Spain)
10.45 Mapping cognitive performance to blood flow abnormalities after head injury
Lindsay Wilson (Scotland)
11.00 Asian neurosurgery in the last 10 years
Tetsuo Kanno (Japan)
11.15 Plexus surgery
Giorgio Brunelli (Italy)
11.45 Neurorehabilitation: In-or-out-patient?
Volker Hoemberg (Germany)
12.10 Quality management in TBI. Lessons from the German prospective study in 6800 patients
Klaus von Wild, P. Wenzlaff (Germany)
12.30 NF-kappaB transcription factors at the crossroad of neuronal death and survival after injury
M. Pizzi, I. Sarnico, F. Boroni, M. Benarese, PF. Spano (Italy)
12.30 LUNCH BREAK AMN Board Meeting

CHAIRMEN: Mario Prosiegel - Alexandru Ciurea
14.15 Phenomenological pathology of consciousness. Conscious disturbance in acute and chronic stages
Tomio Ohta (Japan)
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14.45 Team care in ICU
Hans and Herta Tritthart (Austria)
15.05 Quality of life in TBI
Nicole von Steinbuechel (Switzerland)
15.25 Lessons from national and international TBI societies and funds like NEBRITT
George Zitnay (USA)
15.40 RNA editing: a molecular mechanism for the fine modulation of neuronal transmission
Sergio Barlati (Italy)
16.00 COFFEE BREAK

CHAIRMEN: George Prigatano - Klaus von Wild
16.15 Neurotrauma care in multiple organ lesions in Saudi Arabia including plastic reconstruction
Mohamed Joharji (Saudi Arabia)
16.30 Worldwide incidence of TBI: causes, costs and prevention
Jeff Kraus (USA)
17.10 Family participation in the rehabilitation of the child with traumatic brain injury
Lucia Willadino Braga (Brazil)
17.30 Novel method for transplantation of neuroshere cells or bone marrow stromal cells into damaged spinal cord via cerebrospinal fluid in rat
Yoshihisa Suzuki (Japan)
18.00 AMN Members Meeting
20.00 Presidential dinner (departure of the coaches)
Ristorante Carlo Magno