The 2014 participants of the Tournament for Young Neurologist will receive a travel grant to Istanbul, a free congress registration and up to four nights’ accommodation as well as a travel grant:
Tournament 1 – Basic neurology
Sunday, 1 June 2014, 14:45-16:15h
• Antonio Carotenuto, Naples, Italy: “Inhibition of oligodendrocyte differentiation, by immunoglobulin purified from serum of multiple sclerosis patients during relapse”
• David Gómez-Andrés, Madrid, Spain: “Hereditary spastic paraplegia in children: a network analysis of gait variables”
• Giulia Mallucci, Pavia, Italy: “Transplantation of next-generation directly-induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) in mice with experimental multiple sclerosis”
• Nasir Mirza, Liverpool, UK: “Identifying the causes of pharmacoresistant epilepsy through a genome-wide association study with pathway and network analysis: from complexity to coherence to centrality”
• Roman Schniepp, Munich, Germany: “Differentiation of neurological disorders of gait using automated classification Systems”
• Arseny Sokolov, Tübingen, Germany: “Recovery of visual body motion perception and underlying cerebro-cerebellar network plasticity”
Tournament 2 – Clinical neurology
Monday, 2 June 2014, 14:45-16:15h
• Marte Bjørk, Bergen, Norway: “Epilepsy during pregnancy: a prospective population-based cohort study of prevalence, incidence, treatment and predictors of depressive symptoms”
• Maria Elisa Morelli, Milan, Italy: “Regional hippocampal involvement in pediatric multiple sclerosis: a radial mapping MR study”
• Matthew Nour, Oxford, UK: “The impact of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder on pregnancy outcome”
• Anna Sadnicka, London, UK: “A reflection on plasticity research in writing dystonia”
• Filip Scheperjans, Helsinki, Finland: “Gut microbiota are associated with Parkinsons disease and clinical phenotype a case-control study”
• Katarina Ivana Tudor, London, UK: “Percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation for the treatment of the overactive bladder in patients with neurological disease”
The winner of each group will receive the Uschi Tschabitscher Prize for Young Neurologists consisting of: Free registration at the 1st EAN (European Academy of Neurology) Congress in Berlin, Germany, 20-23 June 2015, up to four nights hotel accommodation, a travel grant, as well as €1,000. The prize is not transferable and participation in the EAN Congress 2015 will not be paid off in cash.
One runner-up prize in each, the clinical and basic tournament will be awarded. This will consist of a certificate and €200.-.
