Registrar's Prize in Neuroscience 2008

 
Registrar's Prize in Neuroscience 2008

The 2008 Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience Registrar's Prize in Neuroscience will take place on Friday, November 21st, in the Hibernia 2 room at the Four Seasons Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin. The meeting will be directed by Dr. Dominick McCabe, Consultant Neurologist, /Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neurology, AMNCH. Top

 Programme

                                                     Registrar's Prize in Neuroscience - Outline Programme
10.00 Registration and Tea and Coffee
10.30 Introduction and Welcome - Dr. Dominick McCabe
10.40 Research Presentations
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Case Reports
15.20 Tea and Coffee
15.40 Case Reports
17.20 Announcement of Prizewinners

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Original Research
Research presentations will be of 12 minute durations, 10 minutes for the actual presentation and 2 minutes for questions

10.30    Opening Address and Introduction  - Dr. Dominick McCabe

                                             Registrar's Prize in Neuroscience Research Presentations
10.40 A genome-wide copy number variation screen in Irish and Dutch ALS populations implicates ataxin-1 mutations
Simon Cronin, Hylke M Blauw, Jan H Veldink, Michael A van Es, Roel A Ophoff, Daniel G. Bradley, Leonard H van den Berg, Orla Hardiman.
10.52 Phenotype and Genotype analysis of Familial Periodic Paralysis in Irish Families
Kelly SB1, Parfrey NA2, Hand CK2, Ryan AM.
11.04 OAS genotype may predict responsiveness to beta interferon therapy
R Lonergan, M O’Brien, L Costelloe, J Fletcher, C O’Farrelly, K O’ Rourke, M Hutchinson, N Tubridy
11.16 Bannayan-Riley-Ruvalcaba Syndrome: a common cause of extreme macrocephaly and neurodevelopmental delay
N E Lynch MRCPI, S A Lynch FRCPI, J McMenamin MD FRCPI, D Webb MD FRCPI
11.28 Nerve excitability testing identifies potential mechanisms and enables risk evaluation for the development of chemotherapy-induced neuropathies: early results from an on-going study.
John C McHugh, Dimitri Tryfonopoulos, David Fennelly, John Crowne, Hugh Bostock, Sean Connolly.
11.40 Incidence, Risk Factors, Severity and Early Outcome of TOAST-defined Ischaemic Stroke Subtypes – The North Dublin Population Stroke Study
Michael Marnane, Orla Sheehan, Aine Merwick, Lorraine Kyne, Dawn Harris, Nicola Fitzsimons, Leslie Daly, Peter J Kelly
11.52 Stroke in the young and middle aged adult - Incidence and outcomes from the North Dublin Population Stroke Study.
Merwick A, Marnane M, Sheehan O, Kyne L, Hannon N, McCormack PME, Duggan J, Moore A, Moroney J , Daly L, Fitzsimons N,Kelly L, Horgan G, Kelly PJ
12.04 Peri-procedural neuropathy; A retrospective review
S. Saidha, J. Spillane, B. McNamara
12.16 Dementia in SPG4 hereditary spastic paraplegia: clinical, genetic and neuropathological evidence
S Murphy, K Kinsella, G Gorman, C Beetz, P Byrne, M Dytko, P McMonagle, M Farrell, M Hutchinson.
12.28 A Population Based Survey of Cognitive Decline in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Julie Phukan MB MRCPI, Laura Gallagher BA, Bernie Corr, Niall P Pender PhD, Orla Hardiman MD FRCPI
12.40 Temporal Discrimination Threshold – a new endophenotype in Adult Onset Primary Torsion Dystonia
Bradley D, Whelan R, Walsh R, Reilly R, Hutchinson S, Molloy F and Hutchinson M. 

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  Lunch 13.00 - 14.00
 Case Reports
Presentations will be of 10 minute duration each, 8 minutes for the actual presentation and 2 minutes for questions.   

  1.                                              Registrar's prize in Neuroscience - Case Reports
    14.00 Recurrent rhabdomyolysis as the presenting feature of PROMM (Proximal Myotonic Myopathy)
    Jennifer Dineen, Orla Hardiman, Aisling M Ryan
    14.10 Variable phenotype in a fast channel congenital myasthenic syndrome
    AS Fitzpatrick, D Hantai, JP McConville
    14.20 Ankylosing Spondylitis, Etanercept and Longitudinally Extensive Myelitis – a putative link?
    SB Kelly, Fanning N, BJ Sweeney
    14.30 Hypomyelination, Hypodontia and Hypogonadotrophic Hypogonadism.
    Lakhani A, Murphy R P, Wolf N I, O’Sullivan M, Albertyn C, Farid S, English R.
    14.40 An Unusual Case of Epilepsia Partialis Continua
    M. Jansen, G.B. Fitzgerald, N. Bermingham, B. Sweeney, C. Keohane
    14.50 Extending the phenotype of Alagille syndrome
    Ged O’ Connor MRCPI†, Dominick J. H. McCabe PhD FRCPI*‡, Michael Guiney FRCPI**, Janice M. T. Redmond MD, FRCPI†, Colin P. Doherty MD, MRCPI†
    15.00 Another patient with a learning disability in decline?
    S. Saidha, P. McCarthy, P.D. Mayne, M. Hennessy

       Tea / Coffee break 15.20

                                                            Registrar's Prize in Neuroscience - Case Reports
     15.40 Neurological manifestations of autoimmune polyglandular syndrome type 1
    McVerry F, Brennan R, McKinstry S, McConville J, Lindsay J McCarron MO
    15.50 ‘A Small Leak Will Sink a Great Ship’- broadening the differential of periodic paresis
    R Lonergan, R King, E Stenke, E Kelly, S McDermott, C Hickey, K Murphy, M Keane, N Tubridy
     16.00 Treatable dementia – a case report
    C.H. Albertyn, R. English, A. Lakhani, F. Malik, N. Austin, S. Connolly, D.J.H. McCabe, R.P. Murphy.
     16.10 Childhood Absence Seizures and GLUT 1 deficiency
    Susan Byrne MB, MRCPI, Jacinta Kearns, Joe McMenamin MD, FRCPI, FRCPCH, David Webb MD, FRCPI, FRCPCH
     16.20 Autosomal dominant hereditary systemic amyloid with a novel transthyretin gene mutation
    Jennifer Spillane, Roderick Galvin, Catherine Keohane, Aisling M Ryan
     16.30 Meningoencephalitis associated with non-tuberculous mycobacteria
    JP O'Dwyer, MRCPI,1 J O’Connor, MB BCh,1 H McDermott, MRCPI,2 E Ng, MRCOphth,3 M Prentice, PhD,2 BJ Sweeney, FRCPI1
     16.40 Non-Hodgkins lymphoma, progressive neurological symptoms and elevated cell count: a diagnostic dilemma
    Dr. Deirdre O’Rourke, Dr. Niamh O’Connell, Dr. Raymond Murphy
    AMNCH, Tallaght, Dublin 24.
     16.50 Hole in One
    Bhangu J, Chaila E, Monaghan T, Chalissery A, Moroney J


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    17.20          Announcement of Prizewinners
Registration


Please email admin@iicn and advise of intention to attend before Friday November 14th        
Registration will begin at 10.00 on the day of the meeting
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Acknowledgement

The IICN wishes to acknowledge the support of Janssen Cilag for the Registrar's Prize, through an unrestricted educational grant         Top

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