Sunday, June 21, 2015

02.00pm - 03.30pm
Teaching course 1: Abnormal eye movements | Christopher Kennard (UK)

• Abnormalities of eye movements due to disorders involving the cerebral cortex |Christopher Kennard (UK)
• Ocular motor abnormalities in Parkinson's and look alike syndromes | Chrystalina Antoniades (UK)
• Abnormal eye movements in brainstem lesions | Ji-Soo Kim (Republic of Korea)

04.00pm - 05.30pm
Teaching course 2: Electrophysiology in neuro-ophthalmology | Graham E. Holder (UK)

• Electrophysiology: Introduction to the tests and interpretation | Graham E. Holder (UK)
• Electrophysiology and retinal imaging in neuro-ophthalmology | Marko Hawlina (Slovenia)
• Paediatric applications | Jelka Brecelj (Slovenia)
• Clinical applications and summary | Graham E. Holder (UK)

05.45pm - 07.15pm
Teaching course 3: Nystagmus | Irene Gottlob (UK)

• Why and when do we need eye movement recordings? | Frank Proudlock (UK)
• Differential diagnosis of infantile nystagmus | Irene Gottlob (UK)
• Neurological nystagmus: case presentations | Anastasia Pilat (UK)
• Abnormal head positions, diagnosis and treatment: presentation of cases | Irene Gottlob (UK)
• Pharmacological treatment, contact lenses and tenotomy | Rebecca McLean (UK)

Monday, June 22, 2015

09.00am - 10.30am
Headache and intracranial hypertension | Kathleen Digre (USA), Tulay Kansu (Turkey)

• Headaches in neuro-ophthalmology | Walter M. Jay (USA)
• Pseudotumour cerebri: An update | Anat Kesler (Israel)
• Intracranial hypertension: Causes and can it occur without papilloedema? | Kathleen Digre (USA)

11.00am – 12.45pm
Eye movements and pupil | Fion Bremner (UK), Caroline Tilikete (France)

• From frogs to man – a neuro-ophthalmologist’s 40 year journey in the visual sciences | Christopher Kennard (UK)
• Ocular motor abnormalities in basal ganglia disorders | Chrystalina Antoniades (UK)
• Oculomotor behaviour of blind patients seeing with subretinal visual implant alpha IMS | Eberhart Zrenner, Katarina Stingl, Ziad M. Hafed (Germany)
• Drug tests in Horner syndrome | Fion Bremner (UK)

02.00pm – 03.30pm
Paediatric neuro-ophthalmological Mini Symposium | Klara Landau (Switzerland), Matthieu Robert (France)

• Neurological mechanisms of infantile nystagmus | Michael Brodsky (USA)
• Normal and abnormal retinal and optic nerve development in infancy: An OCT study | Irene Gottlob (UK)
• What is new in the treatment of amblyopia? | Hana Leiba (Israel)
• Cystinosis and intracranial pressure | Christina Gerth Kahlert (Switzerland)

03.30pm - 03.40pm
Neuro-Ophthalmology, the journal of the EUNOS | Gordon T. Plant (UK), Walter M. Jay (USA)

04.00pm – 05.30pm
Optic neuropathies I | Jette Frederiksen (Denmark), Cameron Parsa (France)

• Current management of NAION | Anthony Arnold (USA)
• Intravitreal triamcinolone injections in non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy: Proposal for a European multicentre study | Carl Arndt, Corina Radoi, Tony Garcia, Alain Ducasse (France)
• Current management in optic neuritis | Jette Frederiksen (Denmark)
• Results of a phase 2 randomized controlled trial of phenytoin in acute optic neuritis | Rhian Raftopoulos, Simon Hickman, Dan Altmann, Ahmed Toosy, Raj Kapoor (UK)

05.30pm – 06.15pm
Controversy in neuro-ophthalmology: Ultrasonography or biopsy in the giant cell arteritis? | Gordon Plant (UK), Ruth Huna-Baron (Israel)

• The superiority of biopsy | Walter M. Jay (USA)
• The superiority of ultrasonography | Klara Landau (Switzerland)

06.45pm
EUNOS Poster session 1: Eye movements, intracranial hypertension

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

09.00am – 10.30am
EUNOS Research Committee Mini Symposium | Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski (Germany)

• Introduction and general overview to the EUNOS Research Committee | Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski (Germany)
• Optic neuritis – network and future directions | Jette Frederiksen (Denmark)
• Developing a European research network for rare genetic diseases | Patrick Yu-Wai-Man (UK)
• Identification of new inherited optic neuropathy genes | Guy Lenaers (France)
• Comparison between pseudotumour cerebri in two tertiary medical centres, Lausanne Switzerland and Tel Aviv Israel | Anat Kesler (Israel)
• Recurrent optic neuritis. Tanganil treatment of nystagmus? | Gülden Akdal (Turkey)
• Hemianopia reading study: Network and questions | Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski (Germany)

11.00am – 12.45pm
Mitochondrial Disease Mini Symposium | Patrick Yu-Wai-Man (UK)

• Mitochondrial genetics and physiology – what you need to know | Patrick Yu-Wai-Man (UK)
• Mitochondrial disease – when to suspect it | Fion Bremner (UK)
• Mitochondrial optic neuropathies | Patrick Yu-Wai-Man (UK)
• OCT changes in inherited optic neuropathies | Thomas R. Hedges (USA)
• Preliminary safety and tolerability results of an intravitreal injection of rAAV2/2-ND4, a recombinant adeno-associated viral vector serotype 2 (rAAV2/2) containing the human wild-type mitochondrial ND4 gene in patients with LHON due to G11778A mutation | Catherine Vignal, Scott Uretsky, Serge Fitoussi, Jean Philippe Combal, Anne Galy, Nitza Thomasson, Mariso Corral-Debrinsky, Geraldine Honnet, Jose A. Sahel (France)
• Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia | Gordon T. Plant (UK)
• Retinal involvement in mitochondrial diseases | Marko Hawlina (Slovenia)

02.00pm - 03.30pm
Illusions, hallucinations, visual neglect and rehabilitation | Christopher Kennard (UK), Gülden Akdal (Turkey)

• Illusions and hallucinations in neuro-ophthalmology | Gordon T. Plant (UK)
• Neglect: Understanding and treating a clinical syndrome | Paresh Malhotra (UK)
• Visual rehabilitation in neuro-ophthalmology | Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski (Germany)
• Randomized controlled trial results of prism therapy versus visual scanning training versus standard care for homonymous hemianopia | Fiona Rowe, Elizabeth Conroy, Emma Bedson, Emma Cwiklinski, Avril Drummond, Marta Garcia-Finana, Carmel Noonan, Alex Pollock, Janet Rockliffe, Catherine Sackley (UK)

04.00pm - 06.00pm
Optic neuropathies II | Patrick Yu-Wai-Man (UK), Shlomo Dotan (Israel)

• The utility of ganglion cell complex analysis in diagnosing optic neuropathy | Thomas R. Hedges (USA)
• Neuro-ophthalmic aspects of drug toxicity | Shlomo Dotan (Israel)
• Some neuro-ophthalmological aspects of Behcet´s disease | Gülden Akdal (Turkey)
• Intraosseous haemangioma and other selected tumours, treated with selective embolization | Rob J.W. de Keizer, Maurits Voormolen, Veva de Groot, Marianne Walderveen (Netherlands)

07.15pm
EUNOS Poster session 2: Optic neuropathies, inflammations and infections

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 53rd ISCEV Symposium and 12th EUNOS Congress joint day

09.00am – 10.15am
Case reports session (ISCEV) | Michael Marmor (USA), Richard Smith (UK)

11.00am – 11.50am
William Dawson memorial lecture Electrophysiology in neuro-ophthalmology | Graham E. Holder (UK), Marko Hawlina (Slovenia)

11.50am – 01.00pm
Electrophysiology – EUNOS | Shuichi Yamamoto (Japan), Eberhart Zrenner (Germany)

• Introductory lecture: Current status of microelectronic aids in fighting blindness | Eberhart Zrenner (Germany)
• Follow-up of a new automated perimetry protocol based on the multifocal ERG compared to the G2 perimetry | Livia Brandao, Matthias Monhart, Andreas Schötzau, Anna Ledolter, Anja Palmowski-Wolfe (Switzerland)
• Multifocal visual evoked potentials in patients with optic disc drusen | Lasse Malmqvist, Clare Fraser, Luis De Santiago, Alexander Klistorner, Steffen Hamann (Denmark)
• Presumable persistent placoid maculopathy: A case report after 1-year follow-up with multimodal imaging and electroretinography | Andre Messias, Katharina Messias, Fernanda Crotti, Rogério Costa (Brazil)
• Retrograde maculopathy | Mathias Abegg (Switzerland)

02.30pm – 03.30pm
Simultaneous poster sessions

03.30pm
ISCEV Poster Sessions

• Neuro-ophthalmology
• Inner retinal function and the optic nerve
• Paediatric electrophysiology
• Toxicology and treatment

EUNOS Poster session 3: Electrophysiology, toxic states, methods

04.00pm - 06.00pm
Neuro-ophthalmology – ISCEV | Graham E. Holder (UK), Marko Hawlina (Slovenia)

• Introductory lecture: Paraneoplastic and autoimmune retinopathy | Richard Weleber (USA)
• Retrospective analysis of the progression of electrophysiologic changes after the first visual symptoms in juvenile onset optic neuritis | Márta Janáky, Imre Fejes, Rita Alács, György Benedek, Gábor Braunitzer (Hungary)
• Visual pathways in humans with ephrin-B1 deficiency | Michael Hoffmann, Hagen Thieme, Karin Liedecke, Synke Meltendorf, Juliane Reupsch, Martin Zenker, Ilse Wieland (Germany)
• Genetic associations to the ERG in autism spectrum disorder | Paul Constable, Sebastian Gaigg, Dermot Bowler, Dorothy Thompson (UK)
• Structural and functional effects of dysmyelination in a large animal model | James Verhoeve, Michael Nork, Leandro Teixeira, Richard Dubielzig, Abigail Radcliff, Ian Duncan (USA)
• Naso-temporal thickness of the retinal ganglion cell layer by OCT-segmentation in lesions of the visual pathway | Hannes Gh Wildberger, Werner Wichmann, Klara Landau, Luca Regli, Christina Gerth-Kahlert (Switzerland)
• Evidence for compartment syndrome damage in a primate model of non-arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (PNAION) | Mary Johnson, Neil Miller, Steven Bernstein (USA)

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