Proposed Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders topics

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  • 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