Melbourne, 21st – 24th October 2010
8th Asian & Oceanian Epilepsy Congress

Practical Sessions


These sessions provide an opportunity for important clinical issues to be reviewed, discussed and debated in an informal setting.

Video: Sleep and epilepsy

Presenters: Deepak GILL (Australia) and Akio IKEDA (Japan)

Video: Is this an epileptic seizure?

Presenters: Yotin CHINVARUN (Thailand) and Elizabeth WALKER (New Zealand)

Debate: All seizures are focal

Chair: Sam BERKOVIC (Australia)
For - Graeme JACKSON (Australia)
Against - Simon SHORVON (UK)

Debate: Surgery is the best way forward in refractory focal epilepsy

Chair: Emilio PERUCCA (Italy)
For - Mark COOK (Australia)
Against - Sam WIEBE (Canada)

Workshop: Neurostimulation in epilepsy

Chairs: Byung-In LEE (Korea) and Yuping WANG (China)

Clinical trials and experience with open-loop neurostimulation    
Yang-Je CHO (Korea)

Development and clinical trials of closed-loop neurostimulation    
Mark COOK (Australia)

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in drug-resistant epilepsy
Yuping WANG (China)

Workshop: Management guidelines in epilepsy

Chairs: Jianzhong WU (China) and Vinod SAXENA (India)

The role of management guidelines in a developing country
Satish JAIN (India)

The development of guidelines for epilepsy management in China
Jiangzhong WU (China)

The development of Japanese guidelines through multisociety collaboration
Naoki AKAMATSU (Japan)


NOTESThe acceptance of abstracts and the recipients of the travel bursary awards was announced at the beginning of August

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