The 2017 participants of the EAN Tournament for Young Neurologists will receive a travel grant to Lisbon, free congress registration and up to four nights’ of hotel accommodation:
Tournament 1 – Basic neurology
Sunday, 25 June 2017, 15:00-16:30h, Room E108
- Zoi Alexopoulou, United Kingdom,: “Identification of Usp8 as a toxicity modifying Deubiquitinase for α-synuclein”
- Silvia Basaia, Italy,: “Structural organization of the brain connectome in patients with amyotrophic and primary lateral sclerosis”
- Antonella Macerollo, United Kingdom,: “Sensory attenuation phenomena: is it the neurophysiological mechanism underlying modulation of beta oscillations?”
- Lieke H.H. Meeter, Netherlands,: “Neurofilament light chain and phosphotau/tau ratio as CSF biomarkers in frontotemporal dementia”
- Betty Wutzl, Austria,: “Promising and highly diagnostic fMRI paradigms for classifying the level of consciousness of patients with severe chronic disorders of consciousness”
- Tayyabah Yousaf, United Kingdom,: “TOMM40 polymorphism is associated with Cognitive and CSF pathology in patients with Dementia”
Tournament 2 – Clinical neurology
Monday, 26 June 2017 – 15:00-16:30h, Room E108
- Thomas Barber, United Kingdom,: “Mechanisms of apathy in REM sleep behaviour disorder”
- Maxime Baud, Switzerland,: “Seizures are locked to multidien rhythms in epilepsy”
- Giacomo Boffa, Italy,: “Sustained disease remission in aggressive multiple sclerosis after autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation”
- Marian Galovic, United Kingdom,: “Predictive Swallowing Score (PRESS): a prognostic model to predict the need for enteral tube feeding after ischemic stroke.”
- Herm Lamberink, Netherlands,: “When to stop antiepileptic drugs? A new tool for individual prediction of seizure outcomes.”
- Paolo Ripellino, Switzerland,: “Neurological complications of acute virus E infection (NeuroCAVE): an observational, prospective Swiss study”
The winner of each group will receive a prize consisting of: Free registration at the 4th EAN Congress 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, 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 4th EAN Congress 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal.
