Chairpersons:
Bernard Uitdehaag, Guenther Deuschl, Paul Boon
during the Highlight session the most prominent topics of the congress were given special recognition:
- Stroke
Veerle De Herdt, , Belgium - Multiple Sclerosis
Rogier Q. Hintzen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - Degenerative disorders including dementia
Rik Vandenberghe, Leuven, Belgium - Epilepsy/clinical neurophysiology
Michel J.A.M. Van Putten, Enschede, The Netherlands - Movement disorders
H.W. Berendse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Neuromuscular diseases
John H. J. Wokke, Utrecht, The Netherlands - Advanced therapies in spinal muscular atrophy: a new landscape
Eduardo Tizzano, Barcelona, Spain
at the end of this session, which is also a good-bye session from Amsterdam, Professor Deuschl asked the winners of this years Tournament on the stage:
Tournament Basic – Winner
Zoi Alexopoulou (Oxford, UK): Identification of Usp8 as a toxicity modifying Deubiquitinase for α-synuclein
Tournament Basic-Runner-up
Tayyabah Yousaf (London, UK): TOMM40 polymorphism is associated with Cognitive and CSF pathology in patients with Dementia
Betty Wutzl (Salzburg, AUSTRIA): Promising and highly diagnostic fMRI paradigms for classifying the level of consciousness of patients with severe chronic disorders of consciousness
Tournament Clinical – Winner
Giacomo Boffa (Genova , ITALY): Sustained disease remission in aggressive multiple sclerosis after autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Tournament Clinical – Runner-up
Herm Lamberink (Utrecht, NL): When to stop antiepileptic drugs? A new tool for individual prediction of seizure outcomes.
Marian Galovic (London, UK): Predictive Swallowing Score (PRESS): a prognostic model to predict the need for enteral tube feeding after ischemic stroke.