Final program
Wednesday, November 14th
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14:30 - 18:30
Board meeting ISIN (Hotel SAS Radisson)
  
   
   
Thursday, November 15th
07:30
Registration

09:00 - 12:00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:00 -13:15 

Basic course in intraoperative neurophysiology - Part 1:
The electric activity of the nervous system
A. Szelenyi, Frankfurt

Neurophysiology in the operating room
D. MacDonald, Riyadh

Electroneurography and electromyography
K. Rösler, Bern

Auditory evoked potentials
A. Møller, San Antonio

 

Lunch 

 

13:15

Opening remarks by congress president
K. Kothbauer, Lucerne
 

13:20 Opening remarks by ISIN president
V. Deletis, New York

   
   
 

Session: neurophysiology and monitoring of the motor cortex and motor pathways
Chair: V. Deletis, New York; V. Amassian, Brooklyn

13:25 - 13:30

 

13:30-14:00 

Mary Menniti Stecker, memorial lecture:
Introduction by last years lecturer
V. Amassian, Brooklyn

Neurophysiology of the motor system
J. Rothwell, London

14:00 - 14:15 Intraoperative motor monitoring for deep seated gliomas
G. Neuloh, Bonn

14:15 - 14:30 Subcortical mapping for corticospinal tract using D-wave
C. Fukaya, Tokyo

14:30 - 14:45 Subcortical mapping and motor evoked potential monitoring in brain tumor surgery
F. Sala, Verona

14:45 - 14:55 Validation of DTI-based fiber tracking by intraoperative subcortical stimulation
A. Reuland, Mainz

14:55 - 15:05 Intraoperative brain mapping of pyramidal tract under general anesthesia
T. Dimitrakopoulos, Thessaloniki
   
15:05 - 15:15 Intraoperative epileptic seizures: an experience in general anesthesia and in awake craniotomy
R. Budai, Udine
   
15:15 - 16:00 Coffeebreak
 

 

Session: neurophysiology and monitoring of the motor cortex and motor pathways continued
Chair: B. Cioni, Rome, J. Rothwell, London

 

16:00 - 16:15 Recording of corticospinal MEP for placement of motor cortex stimulation electrodes in the treatment of post-stroke pain
T. Yamamoto, Tokyo

16:15 - 16:30 Chronic motor cortex stimulation. The Rome Experience
B. Cioni, Rome

16:30 - 16:45 Chronic motor cortex stimulation. The Boston Experience
J. Shils, Burlington

16:45 - 16:55 Navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for preoperative functional diagnostics in rolandic brain tumor surgery - comparison with intraoperative mapping results in 15 cases
T. Picht, Berlin

16:55 - 17:05 Correllation between presurgical evaluation using fMRI (3T) BOLD activation during median nerve stimulation and intraoperative monitoring using the phase reversal technique
P. Manganotti, Verona

17:05 - 17:15 Intraoperative monitoring of scalp EEG and ECoG during peri-insular hemispherotomy: a new approach towards understanding of the mirror focus
D. Debatisse, Lausanne

17:20 - 18:30 Poster session:
F. Sala, Verona; K. Kothbauer, Lucerne; B. Cioni, Rome; D. MacDonald, Riyadh

18:30 - 20:00 Cocktail reception

                   20:00

 

President's dinner - board members, invited speakers

by invitation only

   
Friday, November 16th
07:30
Registration

08:30 - 09:30

 

 

 

 

State of the art sessions 

D-wave physiology and spinal cord mapping
V. Deletis, New York

Monitoring for spinal cord surgery
F. Sala, Verona

Monitoring of supratentorial surgery
A. Szelenyi, Frankfurt

  
09:35 Introduction by congress president
K. Kothbauer, Lucerne
   
  Physiology and testing of the eloquent cortex
  Chair: V. Amassian, Brooklyn; H. Lüders, Cleveland
   
09:40 - 09:45 Introduction of speaker
V. Deletis, New York

09:45 - 10:15 Invited lecture: mapping of eloquent language centers
H. Lüders, Cleveland

10:15 - 10:45 Invited lecture: magnetic testing of the eloquent cortex
V. Amassian, Brooklyn

10:45 - 11:15 Invited lecture: intraoperative testing of the eloquent cortex
V. Deletis, New York
   
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee break
   
11:45 - 12:15 Invited lecture: the neurophysiology of the motor cortex
R. Lemon, London

12:15 - 12:45 Invited lecture: neurophysiology of the eloquent cortex
J. Greenlee, Iowa City

12:45 - 13:15 Invited lecture: operating in the eloquent cortex
H. Duffau, Montpellier
   
13:15 - 14:15 Lunch
   
 

Monitoring and neurophysiology of the spinal cord
Chair: K. Kothbauer, Lucerne; F. Sala, Verona
 

14:15 - 14:20 Introduction of lecture and speaker
K. Kothbauer, Lucerne

14:20 - 14:50

Fred J. Epstein, memorial lecture: the use of intraoperative monitoring in spinal cord surgery by the experienced neurosurgeon
S. Constantini, Tel Aviv

14:50 - 15:00 The experience with multimodal intraoperative monitoring as a surgical aid in the removal of spine and spinal cord tumors: experience with 41 cases
C. Paus, Zurich

15:00 - 15:15 Four-limb muscle motor evoked potential and optimized somatosensory evoked potential monitoring with decussation assessment: results in 206 thoracolumbar spine surgeries
D. MacDonald, Riyadh

15:15 - 15:25 Multimodal Intraoperative Monitoring (MIOM) during surgery of spinal deformities in 217 patients
A. Eggspühler, Zürich

15:25 - 15:35 Triggered EMG threshold testing in the cervical spine using two different testing techniques
B. Cohen, Milwaukee

15:35 - 15:45 Persistently electrified pedicle stimulation during minimally invasive lumbo-sacral fixation
J. Shils, Burlington

15:45 - 15:55 The role of neurophysiologic monitoring in intradural-extramedullary spinal cord tumors
A. Korn, Tel Aviv
   
15:55 - 16:20

Coffee break

Chair: V. Deletis, New York; D. MacDonald, Riyadh

16:20 - 16:25 Introduction of lecturer
V. Deletis, New York

16:25 - 16:55 Invited lecture: reflex activity in the spinal cord
M. Dimitrijevic, Houston
   
16:55 - 17:05 Intraoperative assessment of the injured spinal cord
P. Costa, Torino

17:05 - 17:15 The diagnostic value of Multimodal Intraoperative Monitoring (MIOM) during spine surgery: a prospective study of 1017 patients
M. Sutter, Zürich

17:15 - 17:25

 

17:30 - 18:30 

 

Tibial evoked SEP in anterior thoracic scoliosis correction: intraoperative evolution and interaction with surgical approach
M. Schubert, Zürich

General assembly ISIN 

20:00 Banquet at the hotel "Montana"
   
   
Saturday, November 17th
08:30 - 09:30

State of the art session 2 

Anesthesia and intraoperative monitoring
C. Kalkman, Utrecht

Neurophysiology at the ICU
M. Guerit, Brussels

Neurophysiology-guided deep brain stimulation
J. Shils, Boston

   
09:35 Introduction by congress president
K. Kothbauer, Lucerne
   
  Neurophysiology-guided surgery for movement disorders
  Chair: J. Shis, Burlington, J. Krauss, Hannover
   
09:45 - 10:15 Invited lecture: neurophysiology and functional neurosurgery
J. Krauss, Hannover

10:15 - 10:30 Multi-disciplinary studies on the electrode-brain interface during deep brain recording and stimulation
X. Liu, London

10:30 - 10:45 Computational modeling of the basal ganglia and the DBS electrode
J. Arle, Burlington

10:45 - 10:55 Neurophysiological mapping and monitoring of motor cranial nerves in brainstem surgery
P. Lanteri, Verona

10:55 - 11:05 Intraoperative mapping of motor cranial nerve nuclei on the floor of the fourth ventricle (MEPs) and neurophysiological monitoring (SEPs) in patients with Chiari II malformation
J. Conrad, Mainz

11:05 - 11:15 Investigation of myotomal innervation, stimulation physiology and decompressive threshold effect in healthy and pathologic spinal nerve roots
C. Martin, Burlington

11:15 - 11:25 Lateral spread variations during intraoperative monitoring of Hemifacial Spasms microvascular decompression
M. Habeych, Pittsburgh
   
11:30 - 12:00 Coffeebreak
   
12:00 - 12:20 Anode-cathode paradoxes of transcranial electrical stimulation reflects a basic neurophysiological property of axons related to their orientation
H. L. Journee, Groningen

12:20 - 12:30 Experimental study to the course of threshold currents, voltages and electrode impedances during stepwise stimulation between skin surface and the human cortex
A. Szelenyi, Frankfurt

12:30 - 12:40 Influence of scalp, skull and arachnoid fluid on the excitability of axons in the cortex and corticospinal tract at electrical stimulation applied between extracranial and cortical locations
H. L. Journee, Groningen
   
  Session: Logistics for Intraoperative Neurophysiology
 

Chair: K. Kothbauer, Lucerne, V. Deletis, New York

 

13:00 - 13:15 Improving remote supervision of neurophysiologic monitoring. Northwestern University Model
A. Koht, Chicago

13:15 - 13:30 Who monitors? Different concepts
K. Kothbauer, Lucerne

13:40 - 14:00 Presidential closing remarks, acknowledgements, announcement of the meeting 2009
V. Deletis, New York