Proposed Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders topics
- The etiology of PD is predominantly genetic
- Is PD more common in patients with ET?
- PD lysozome dysfunction and PD associated with mitochondrial dysfunction are different diseases.
- With the use of atypical neuroleptics, tardive syndromes have practically disappeared.
- Animal models are useful in understanding PD pathogenesis
- Is Braak staging true for all Parkinson's disease?
- Is vagotomy protective against PD?
- REM sleep behavior disorder should be considered as a precursor and marker for alpha synucleaopathies and promote therapeutic intervention
- Is PD a prion disease?
- Neuroimaging diagnostic workup in parkinsonian syndromes: always DAT SPECT first?
List of invited speakers
Javier Arbizu, Spain
Abdelhamid Benazzouz, France Erwan Bezard, France Elsmarieke Van De Giessen, The Netherlands Andrzej Friedman, Poland Nestor Galvez-Jimenez, USA Pedro J Garcia Ruiz, Spain David Goldstein, USA Tanya Gurevich, Israel Clement Hamani, Canada Stuart Isaacson, USA Kurt Jellinger, Austria Horacio Kaufmann, USA |
Dariusz Koziorowski, Poland
Jaime Kulisevsky, Spain Virginia Lee, USA Albert Ludolph, Germany Silvia Morbelli, Italy Marios Politis, UK Bogdan Popescu, Romania Jaroslaw Slawek, Poland Laszlo Vescei, Hungary Zbigniew K. Wszolek, USA |