Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Fundamentals
ESSFN Hands on courses
11-13 Mayo 2015 : LAUSANNE
BASIC METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS
NEUROSURGERY FOR PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
Organizado por la ESSFN, la Sociedad Europea de Neurocirugía Funcional y Esterotáxica, los días 11 al 13 de Mayo tendrá lugar en Lausana (Suiza) un cursos de especialización sobre los «Fundamentos de la Neurocirugía Funcional y Estereotáxica». En la web de la ESSFN, se puede ampliar esta información.
El programa del curso es el siguiente:
DAY 1 11 MAY 2015 BASIC SCIENCE
08:00 introduction of the course and of the ESSFN
GENERAL:
08:20 How to start research.
08:40 How to design a project.
09:10 How to find money
09:30 Ethics
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 Statistics : how to read most popular stats
11:30 Critical reading and discussion
12:30 LUNCH
13:30 How to write a manuscript
14:00 How to review a manuscript
CLINICAL RESEARCH
14 :30
• Pilot study : when and how, limits
• Phase 2 studies : sampling, designs (double blind, placebo etc)
• Multi centric studies
15:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 Interactive : together we write a project
18:00 END OF FIRST DAY
DAY 2 12 MAY 2015 PSYCHOSURGERY
08:00 History of Psychosurgery, lessons of the past
09:00 Ethical aspects of modern DBS for psychiatric conditions – WSSFN guidelines
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 The different roles of in a multidisciplinary team in DBS for psychiatry: the psychiatrist point of view
11:30 Neuronal circuits involved in psychiatric problems
12:30 Neuroimaging in psychiatry
13:00 LUNCH
14:00 Neurobiology and pharmacotherapy in OCD: how to define pharmaco resistance?
15:00 OCD: Fundamentals, clinical aspects and behavioural treatments
15:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 Targets for OCD: clinical outcome
17:00 Long term results of DBS in OCD
17:30 Electrical fields: macro and micro recordings psychiatry
18 :00 END OF SECOND DAY
DAY 3 13 MAY 2015 PSYCHOSURGERY
08:00 Depression: Fundamentals, clinical aspects and neurobiology. Pharmacotherapy and ECT
09:00 Targets for depression: clinical outcome.
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 DBS Programming in the context of psychiatric patients
11:30 Tourette syndrome: indications, targets and results
12:30 LUNCH
13:30 Drug addiction, obesity and anorexia nervosa: DBS challenges
14:00 Is there any place for DBS in schizophrenia and autisms?
14:30 Lesions versus DBS in psychosurgery.
15:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 EVALUATION
17:00 END OF THE COURSE
