Moderator: Barbara Plecko

08'30-09'00

Registration

all

09'00-09'15

Welcome: 10 pre-course questions

Dana Craiu

09'15-10'00

Introduction to metabolic disorders - a signs and symptoms approach

Barbara Plecko

10'00-10'30

coffee break

10'30-11'15

Metabolic disorders presenting with acute or chronic encephalopathy

Saskia Wortmann

11'15-12'00

Metabolic disorders presenting with epilepsy

Barbara Plecko

12'00-12’45

Metabolic diseases presenting with movement disorders: clinical, radiologic and laboratory findings

Michel Willemsen

12'45-14'15

lunch

14'15-15’15

Case based learning (faculty)

Barbara, Saskia, Michel

15'15-15'45

tea break

15'45-16'30

Floppy infant, metabolic myopathies

Dimitrios Zafeiriou

16'30-17'30

Presentation of cases by participants

all

19'00-21'00

Social event. More info

all

Tuesday 25 April: Treatment options in Neurometabolic diseases

Moderator: Michel Willemsen

08'30-9'15

Biomarkers of metabolic disorders and NGS

Saskia Wortmann

9’15-10'00

Presentation of cases by participants

Michel, Dimitrios, Barbara

10'00-10’30

coffee break

10'30-11’15

Lysosomal storage diseases; neurological complications and treatment options   

Dimitrios Zafeiriou

11'15-12’00

Mitochondrial disorders

Saskia Wortmann

12’00-12’45

Neurotransmitter Disorders

Michel Willemsen

12'45-14'00

lunch

14'00-15’00

Presentation of cases by participants

all

15'00-15'30

tea break

15’30-16'15

Treatment strategies in metabolic disorders

Barbara Plecko

16’15-17’00

Course summary – main messages

Michel Willemsen

17’00-17’30

Best presentation award

Dana Craiu

Day 1: 26 April

08'30-08'45

15’

Pre-course Questions

Dana Craiu

08'45-09'45

60’

Diagnosis and etiology of epilepsy: classification of seizures, epilepsies, syndromes

Sameer Zuberi

09'45-10'15

30’

The concept of “epileptic encephalopathies vs developmental and epileptic encephalopathies”

Dana Craiu

10'15-10'45

30’

coffee break

10'45-12'45

40’

Role of EEG in the diagnosis of epilepsy

Lieven Lagae

40’

Metabolic and genetic examinations in childhood epilepsy

Carmen Fons

40’

Imaging in childhood epilepsy

Biayna Sukhudyan

12'45-14'00

75’

lunch

14'00-15’00

60’

Case reports by the students (diagnostic)

all

15'00-15'30

30’

tea break

15'30-17'30

30’

First line AED treatment (when to start, first line AED choice)

Biayna Sukhudyan

30’

Treatment options in refractory epilepsy (including VNS, no surgery)

Lieven Lagae

30’

Ketogenic diet

Carmen Fons

30’

Epilepsy surgery: background and illustrative cases

Katrien Jansen

19'00-21'00 

Social event. More info

all

Day 2: 27 April 2022

Moderator: Lieven Lagae

08'30-10'30

30’

Neonatal epilepsies –  what is new in the classification; emphasis on self-limited epilepsy syndromes

Katrien Jansen

30’

Developmental and epileptic encephalopathy syndromes in infancy with emphasis 

on Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome (IESS)

Sameer Zuberi

30’

DEE syndromes in infancy - Dravet syndrome

Lieven Lagae

30’

The concept of etiology specific syndromes

Biayna Sukhudyan

10'30-11'00

coffee break

11'00-13'30

30’

Self-limited epilepsies of childhood – emphasis on SeLECT

Katrien Jansen

30’

Epileptic syndromes with EEG activation in sleep, with EE/DEE

Dana Craiu

30’

Genetic Generalized Epilepsies - Absences epilepsies

Carmen Fons

30’

Genetic Generalized Epilepsies - Juvenile myoclonic epilepsies

Lieven Lagae

30’

FIRES and inflammatory epilepsies

Carmen Fons

13'30-15'00

lunch

15'00-16’00

30’

Co-morbidities in childhood epilepsy

Lieven Lagae or Sameer Zuberi

30’

Differential Diagnosis in childhood epilepsies

Dana Craiu

16'00-16'30

tea break

16'30-17'30

60’

Case presentations by the students (therapeutic)

all

17'30

Evaluation, course message, best presentation award

Dana Craiu, Lieven Lagae