The 2018 participants of the EAN Tournament for Neurologists in training will receive a travel grant, free congress registration and up to four nights’ of hotel accommodation for the Lisbon Congress:
Tournament 1 – Basic neurology
Sunday, 17 June, 2018 15:00 – 16:30h, Room Copenhagen
Alexandre Bonnet, France,: “A missense mutation in the Low Complexity Domain of endogenous TDP43 induces gain of splicing function and neurodegeneration in the mouse”
Maria Pia Giannoccaro, United Kingdom,: “A passive transfer animal model of CASPR2 antibodies”
Pedro Nascimento Alves, Portugal,: “Subcortical Anatomy of the Default Mode Network: a functional and structural connectivity study”
Hugo Oliveira, United Kingdom,: “A missense mutation in the Low Complexity Domain of endogenous TDP43 induces gain of splicing function and neurodegeneration in the mouse”
Lucia V. Schottlaender, United Kingdom,: “A novel gene causing primary familial brain calcification: JAM2”
Giogio Vivacqua, Italy,: “Salivary Alpha-Synuclein and tau in Parkinson’s Disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy”
Tournament 2 – Clinical neurology
Monday, 18 June 2018, 15:00 – 16:30h, Room Oslo
Ermelinda De Meo, Italy,: “Pediatric and Adult MS: A Longitudinal Multimodal MRI Study to Explore the Substrates of the Different Clinical Courses”
Tim Kelderman, Belgium,: “Safety and efficacy of percutaneous pulsed radiofrequency at the C1-C2 level in chronic cluster headache: A retrospective analysis of 21 cases.”
Philipp Mahlknecht, Innsbruck,: “Has deep brain stimulation changed the natural history of Parkinson’s disease? A case control longitudinal study”
Giovanni Novi, Italy,: “Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder and rituximab: a multi-center analysis”
Juraj Secnik, Stockholm,: “Assessment of diabetic medication in ~8,000 dementia patients with diabetes mellitus. A study from the Swedish Dementia Registry.”
Ide smets, Belgium,: “Cerebrovascular events after surgery versus conservative therapy for moyamoya disease: a meta-analysis”
The winner of each group will receive a prize consisting of: Free registration at the 5th EAN Congress, 2019, Oslo, Norway, up to four nights hotel accommodation as well as a travel grant. The prize is not transferable and will not be paid off in cash.
Two runner-up prizes in each, the clinical and basic tournament will be awarded. They will get a free registration to the 5th EAN Congress 2019 in Oslo, Norway.
