GAIT 2010
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Previous Congress
Gait & Movement Disorders Congress 2010, Washington D.C.

Timetable 

Friday February 26, 2010

Theme: Exercise Interventions across Gait and Mental Disorders

8:00-10:15am

Opening Plenary Session & Keynote Lecture
- Minding and Mining Our Behavioral Markers: Towards an Independence Industry
- Healthy, Body, Healthy Mind?: Fitness Training Effects on Mind and Brain
- Enhancing Cognition, Does it Improve Gait?

10:15-10:45am

Coffee Break in the Exhibition

10:45-11:50am

Poster Viewing and Poster Walk Session

12:00-1:00pm

Lunch Break, Visit Exhibition and Poster Viewing

1:00-3:15pm

Plenary Session II
- Keynote Lecture : Relation of Risk Factors and Neuropathology to Cognitive and Motor Impairment
- Incorporating Cognitive and Physical Enrichment Programmed into the Everyday Lives of Older Adults
- Exercise After Stroke: Implications for Mobility Recovery and Motor Learning
- Exercise for Parkinson's Disease: Disease Modification, Just Fun, or Both?

3:15-3:45pm

Coffee Break in the Exhibition

3:45-5:15pm Oral Session I

5:15-6:15pm

Workshops

Recognizing Gait Disorders Gait and Balance Assessment in Clinical Practice and Clinical Trials

Novel Therapies: Movement and Dance

6:30pm

Welcome Reception


Saturday February 27, 2010

Theme: Dual Task Training across Gait and Mental Disorders

8:00-10:15am

Plenary Session III
- Keynote Lecture: Toward Multidimensional, Continuous and Unobtrusive Measures of Gait and Cognition
- Cognitive Approaches to Improving Gait
- Central Control of Mobility: Evidence from Cognitive, Genetic and Functional Neuroimaging Studies
- Effect of Dual Tasks on Drivers with Cognitive Dysfunction

10:15-10:45am

Coffee Break in the Exhibition

10:45-11:50am

Poster Viewing and Poster Walk Session

12:00-1:00pm

Lunch Break, Visit Exhibition and Poster Viewing

1:00-3:15pm

Plenary Session IV
- Keynote Lecture: The Pharmacology of Gait
- Dual Task Walking Performance and Fall Risk in Old Age
- Training the Untrainable: Dual Task Walking in Parkinson's Disease
- Using Neurochemical Imaging To Understand Gait And Mental Function In Parkinson Disease

3:15-3:45pm

Coffee Break in the  Exhibition

3:45-5:15pm Oral Session II

5:15-6:15pm

Workshops

Recognizing Psychogenic Gait Disorders Cognitive Training in Research and Clinical Practice Using Imaging to Assess Gait and Dual Task Performance

Sunday February 28, 2010

Theme: Preventing Falls in Gait and Mental Disorders

8:00-10:15am

Plenary Session V
- Keynote Lecture: Video-Capture of the Cause and Circumstances of Falls in Older Adults in Long-Term Care
- Preventing Falls in Older People: How Do We Encourage Participation in Strength and Balance TGraining? Findings from ProFaNE
- Inhibitory Processes in Postural Control
- A Multifactoral Approach for Understanding Fall Risk in Older People - A Decision Tree Model

10:15-10:45am

Coffee Break in the Exhibition

10:45am-12:15pm

Plenary Session VI
Preventing falls in the Elderly: Translating Evidence to Clinical Practice
- Translation of Clinical Trials to Practice: What Works and Doesn't Work
- Interventions for preventing falls in older people living in the community: findings from the recently updated Cochrane Review

- Panel Discussion
 

12:15-12:45pm

Closing Ceremony & Poster Awards


Key

 

Plenary Sessions

 

Poster Viewing and
Poster Walk Session

 

Workshops

  Oral Session

 

Social Events