ASEPA Pre-Congress Teaching Courses

 

Pre-Congress Teaching Courses

AOEC 2014

 

Course 1: STRUCTURAL AND METABOLIC CAUSES OF EPILEPSIES

Chairs

: Josephine GUTIERREZ (Philippines) and TBA
Post-traumatic epilepsy – Chong-Tin TAN (Malaysia)
Post-stroke epilepsy – Ta-Cheng CHEN (Taiwan)
Post-encephalitic epilepsy – Usha Kant MISRA (India)
Brain tumour – Josephine GUTIERREZ (Philippines)
Mitochondrial disease – Young-Mock LEE (Korea)
Neurocutaneous syndromes – Ingrid SCHEFFER (Australia)
Malformations of cortical development – Athanasios COVANIS (Greece)
CNS vascular malformation – Howan LEUNG (Hong Kong)

Course 2: ADVANCES IN IMAGING TECHNIQUES IN EPILEPSY EVALUATION 
Chairs: Graeme JACKSON (Australia) and Tchoyoson Choie Cheio LIM (Singapore)
Structural MRI: visual inspection versus automated assessment – Graeme JACKSON (Australia)
DWI and MRS – Tchoyoson Choie Cheio LIM (Singapore)
DTI tractography – Elysa WIDJAJA (Indonesia)
fMRI mapping of eloquent cortex – Winston Eng-Hoe LIM (Singapore)
SPECT and SISCOM – Terry O’BRIEN (Australia)
PET – Yotin CHINVARUN (Thailand)
MEG – Hiroshi OTSUBO (Japan)
Multimodal imaging for epilepsy surgery epileptogenic networks – Sarat CHANDRA (India)