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Preliminary Timetable

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
13:00 - 19:00 Registration
   
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
08:00 - 19:30 Registration
09:30 - 16:30 Teaching courses
17:00 - 18:30 Satellite symposia
19:00 Opening ceremony followed by Welcome reception
   
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
08:30 - 10:30

EFNS Main Topics:
• Small vessel diseases: stroke and dementia
• Monoclonal antibodies for multiple sclerosis therapy: mechanisms of action, efficacy and safety
• Molecular and cellular imaging of the CNS
• Progress in clinical neurophysiology

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break, exhibition and poster visit
11:00 - 12:30 Short communications
Tournament for Young Neurologists I
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break, exhibition and poster visit
13:00 - 14:30 Satellite symposia
14:30 - 16:00 Poster session
15:00 - 17:00 EFNS/EFNA special session: The good life
15:30 - 17:00 Focused workshops
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break, exhibition and poster visit
17:30 - 19:00 Satellite symposia
20:30 Special Course with pasta dinner:
Emotions, subconsciousness, basal ganglia
   
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
08:30 - 10:30 EFNS Main Topics:
• Advances in movement disorders
• Dementias and memory disorders: from bench to bed and contrary
• Stem cells and neurological disease
• Multiple sclerosis. A changing paradigm of neuroinflammation control in MS
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break, exhibition and poster visit
11:00 - 12:30 Short communications
Tournament for Young Neurologists II
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break, exhibition and poster visit
13:00 - 14:30 Satellite symposia
14:30 - 16:00 Poster session
14:30 - 17:00 Special session:
European Basal Ganglia Club (EBGC)
15:00 - 17:00 Special session:
EFNS-EUREPA epilepsy symposium: epilepsies in different ages
15:30 - 17:00 Focused workshops
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee break, exhibition and poster visit
17:30 - 19:00 Satellite symposia
Evening Congress party at Stazione Leopolda
   
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
08:30 - 10:30 EFNS Main Topics:
• New insights in the pathophysiology of headache
• New therapeutic avenues in epilepsy
• Update on the diagnosis and therapy of neuromuscular diseases
• Early active multiple sclerosis: treat before it is too late
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break and exhibition visit
10:30 - 12:00 Special session:
History and art: neurological disorders of famous composers
11:00 - 12:00 Short communications
12:00 - 13:00 Lecture on Clinical Neurology
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break and exhibition visit
13:00 - 14:30 Satellite symposia
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break and exhibition visit
14:30 - 16:30 Joint Session EFNS - Mediterranean Neurological Societies
15:00 - 16:30 Focused workshops
16:45 Closing session
  Farewell reception