MDS-ES/EAN Sessions at EAN Congress

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Movement Disorder Sessions at the 11^th EAN Congress

Helsinki, Finland • June 21 - 24, 2025

 

The Following Sessions are offered in Partnership with the European Academy of Neurology (EAN).

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Use the hashtag #MDSatEAN to share your experience at the EAN Congress. 

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Day 1: Saturday, June 21, 2025

Focused Workshop:
Normal pressure hydrocephalus and Neurodegeneration: Two sides of the same coin?

8:30 - 10:00 EEST • Room Lisbon
Chair: Giovanni Palermo, Italy

Exploring the relationship between normal pressure hydrocephalus and neurodegenerative diseases:

• Clinical insights – Ville Leinonen, Finland
• Laboratory markers – Anastasia Bougea, Greece
• Imaging perspectives – Giovanni Palermo, Italy
   

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Symposium:
New and Future Treatments of Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders

10:30 - 12:30 EEST • Main Auditorium
Chair: Wassilios Meissner, France

• Genetic status Update on Management of early-stage Parkinson's disease – Wassilios Meissner, France
• Update on management of advanced Parkinson’s Disease – Marina Picillo, Italy
• Update on treatments of Parkinson’s disease and related disorders – Joaquim J. Ferreira, Portugal 
• Update on disease modifying treatments for atypical parkinsonian disorders – Iva Stankovic, Serbia
   

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Day 2: Sunday, June 22, 2022

Case-based Workshop:
Surgical Treatment of Tremor and Parkinson’s Disease

15:30 - 17:00 EEST • Case-based Workshop Room 
Chair: Maria Cruz Rodriquez Oroz, Spain

• Patient with advanced Parkinson’s Disease and motor complications (MRIgFUS candidate) – Maria Cruz Rodriquez Oroz, Spain
• Patient with advanced Parkinson’s Disease and motor complications (DBS candidate) – Patricia Limousin, United Kingdom
• Patient with advanced Parkinson’s disease who underwent STN DBS and presents with dyskinesia and impulse control disorder – Martijin Beudel, Netherlands
   

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Teaching Course: 
Update on Diagnosis and Treatment of Dystonia

15:30 - 18:45 EEST • Room Lisbon
Chair: Sylvia Boesch, Austria

• Classification of dystonias: The view of a clinician – Sylvia Boesch, Austria
• The genetic background of dystonias: Lessons from whole exom sequencing – Michael Zech, Germany
• When and what to test: A video-based flow chart – Elisabetta Indelicato, Austria
• Advances in the treatment of isolated and combined dystonias – Laura Cif, France
   

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Day 3: Monday, June 23, 2025

Focused Workshop:
Update on Genetic Movement Disorders

8:30 - 10:00 EEST • Room Lisbon
Chair: Francesca Magrinelli, United Kingdom

• Recent insights into the genetic architecture of Parkinson's Disease – Joanne Trinh, Germany 
• Update on hyperkinetic genetic movement disorders – Francesca Magrinelli, United Kingdom
• New repeat expansion disorders presenting with ataxia – Emil Gustavsson, United Kingdom
   

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Controversy:
Are Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson’s Disease Dementia Two Sides of the Same Coin?  

Time TBA • Room Gothenburg
Chair: David Burn, United Kingdom

• PRO: Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia should be treated as a single disease entity – Atbin Djamshidian-Tehrani, Austria
• CON: Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson’s disease dementia should be considered as independent diseases – Rimona Weil, United Kingdom
   

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Interactive Session:
Emergencies in Movement Disorders 

11:00 - 12:30 EEST • Room Oslo 
Chair: Timothy Lynch, Ireland

• Hypokinetic and hyperkinetic movement disorders in the emergency room – Gary Álvrez Bravo, Spain
• Emergencies in device-aided therapies for movement disorders – Maria Fiorella Contarino, Netherlands
• Drug-induced movement disorders emergencies – Timothy Lynch, Ireland
   

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Interactive Session:
Movement Disorders in Daily Practice
Coordinated by the MDS Young Members Group and EAN RRFS

15:30 - 17:00 EEST • Room Oslo 
Chair: Michele Matarazzo, Spain

• Classical Hypokinetic Movement Disorders – Michele Matarazzo, Spain
• Classical Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders -  Bruno Bergmans, Belgium
• Other Movement Disorders -  Giorgia Sciacca, Italy

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Teaching Course:
How to Untangle the Diagnostic Complexity of Chorea 

15:30 - 18:45 EEST • Main Auditorium 
Chair: Alessio Di Fonzo, Italy

• Exploring the relationship between Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus and neurodegenerative diseases – Carlos Estevez-Fraga, Spain
• The Huntington's Disease Look-alike Syndromes – Alessio Di Fonzo, Italy
• Acquired Forms of Chorea – Beatrice Helm, Austria
• Chorea in Childhood – Miryam Carecchio, Italy

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Day 4: Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Hands On Course (BYO Laptop):
Neuroimaging in Movement Disorders

8:30 - 10:00 EEST • HOC Room
Chair: Thilo van Eimeren, Germany

• Neuroimaging in Parkinsonism - Thilo van Eimeren, Germany
• Neuroimaging in Hyperkinetic Movement Disorders - Elisabetta Sarasso, Italy
• Neuroimaging in Ataxia - Bart van de Warrneburg, Netherlands

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MDS members are invited to use the hashtag #MDSatEAN to share their experience at the EAN Congress. 

Visit the 11th EAN Congress Website for additional information or to register.

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