Epilepsy Update & Review 2018

Topics And Speakers:

What is Epilepsy: Definition, Diagnostic Dilemmas, and Determining Remission in Clinical Practice – Anne Berg, PhD

Classification of Generalized and Focal “Seizures” – Prakash Kotagal, MD

Epilepsies and Electroclinical Syndromes: Neonatal and Infantile – Elaine Wirrell, MD

Epilepsies and Electroclinical Syndromes: Childhood – Elaine Wyllie, MD

Distinctive Epilepsies: Neuro-cutaneous Disorders, Hypothalamic Hamartoma – Ajay Gupta, MD

Genetic Epilepsies: Clinical Recognition and Identification – Phillip Pearl, MD

Genetic Testing in Epilepsy: Test Selection and Interpretation – Dennis Lal, PhD

Epilepsies and Electroclinical Syndromes: Adolescents and Adults – Jessica Fesler, MD

AED I: Drug Interactions in Epilepsy Practice and First Generation AEDs – Ahsan Moosa Naduvil, MD

AED II: Evidence-based Use of AEDs and Ketogenic Diet – Elaine Wirrell, MD

AED III: Evidence-based Use of Newer AEDs and Their Interactions – Andrey Stojic, MD, PhD

Immune Modulatory Therapies in Epilepsy and Autoimmune Epilepsies – Ahsan Moosa Naduvil, MD

Semiology and Scalp VEEG Findings: Temporo-Perisylvian Epilepsies – Patrick Chauvel, MD

Semiology and Scalp EEG Findings: Frontal and Parieto-Occipital Epilepsies – Andreas Alexopoulos, MD, MPH

Semiology and Scalp VEEG Findings: Special Characteristics in Infants and Young Children – Ajay Gupta, MD

Localization of Epileptiform Patterns on Scalp EEG and Role of MEG – Richard Burgess, MD, PhD

MRI in Epilepsy: Structural and Functional MRI – Mykol Larvie, MD, PhD

Medical Intractability and Pre-surgical Evaluation for Epilepsy: Why, When and How? – Lara Jehi, MD

Role of Nuclear Imaging in Pre-surgical Evaluation of Epilepsy: PET and SPECT – Mykol Larvie, MD

Post-processing Imaging Techniques (VBM, DTI, QPET), and Multimodal Co-registration – Irene Wang, PhD

Surgical Techniques in Lesional Epilepsies – William Bingaman, MD

Invasive EEG Evaluation: Indications, Techniques, and Cortical Stimulation Paradigms – Juan Bulacio, MD

Intraoperative Neurophysiologic Tests: ECOG, SSEPs and Multi-modal Testing – Ajay Gupta, MD

Stereo EEG-based Surgical Techniques, and Disconnective and Laser Ablation Surgeries – Jorge Gonzalez-Martinez, MD, PhD

Neuro-stimulation Devices in Epilepsy – Dileep Nair, MD

Psychogenic Non-epileptic Seizures: Diagnosis and Management – Jocelyn Bautista, MD

Psychiatric Comorbidities in Epilepsy and SUDEP – Lara Jehi, MD

Women and Pregnancy Issues in Epilepsy – Nancy Foldvary-Schaefer, DO

Neuropsychological Testing in Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery Candidates – Robyn Busch, PhD

EEG Developmental Maturation, Neonatal Seizures and Neonatal Encephalopathies – Elia Pestana-Knight, MD

ICU EEG: Encephalopathic, Periodic and Coma Patterns – Christopher Newey, DO

Diagnosis and Evidence-based Management of Status Epilepticus – Stephen Hantus, M