Second ICNA Congress (November 26–30, 1979, Sydney, Australia)

• Event: Second ICNA Congress
• Dates: November 26–30, 1979
• Location: Sydney, Australia

Key Figures

• Congress President: Dr. Robert Ouvrier (Australia)
• Chairman of the Scientific Program Committee: Dr. Peter Procopis (Australia)

Preceding Event

• Event: Second International Symposium on Learning Disabilities
• Location: Tokyo
• President: Dr. Yukio Fukuyama

Douglas Reye Memorial Lecture

• Speaker: Dr. David B. Clark (Lexington, KY, USA)
• Topic: 'Douglas Reye and the neuropathology of childhood: their place in the neurosciences'

Keynote Speakers and Topics

• Dr. A.C. Pollard (Adelaide)
  • Topic: 'Enzymological diagnosis and phenotypic variability of the storage disorders affecting the central nervous system'
• Dr. Carleton Gajdusek (NIH, future Nobel laureate)
  • Topic: 'Neurovirology foci of high incidence in the Western Pacific'
• Dr. Werner Isler (Zurich)
  • Topic: 'Cerebrovascular disease in childhood'

Symposia Topics

• Neuromuscular diseases
• Epilepsy
• Pediatric neuro-ophthalmology
• Neurotransmitters

Our Australian colleagues Dr. B. Wise and others edited the proceedings in a second volume of Topics in Child Neurology. Dinner receptions at the homes of local hosts were again featured, with a resultant crisis when the number of chairs at the home of Dr. Ouvrier was inadequate for his contingent of guests who are more likely to remember the size and succulence of Australian prawns. Delegates may also remember that buses carrying them to a formal reception were too tall to enter the hallowed gates of the University.

Trips to the zoo to gaze at koalas and kangaroos (alias joeys), and to shops selling wooden sculptures from New Guinea did not discourage 400 delegates from attending the meetings.

Copenhagen was the venue of the third ICNA congress on May 24–29, 1982. The President of the Congress was Dr. Erik Hansen who had previously received the Board on the Island of Fyn where it visited the home of Hans Christian Andersen. The ICNA was honored by the presence of Queen Ingrid of Denmark who opened the congress. A reception in the Tivoli Gardens was a big attraction, as was a performance of the Royal Danish Ballet in an elegant 18th century theater in the round.

At this congress the ICNA awarded the first Frank R. Ford Memorial Lectureship to honor an ICNA member for exceptional contribution to child neurology, an honor which has been conferred at each succeeding ICNA congress. The first recipient was Dr. Sabine Pelc for her singlehanded efforts to start ICNA. Her topic was the childhood leukodystrophies.

The inaugural volume of the ‘International Review of Child Neurology Series’, founded and edited by Dr. Prichard, was about to appear. A gauge of the future success of the series is that one of two preliminary copies of the first volume rushed to the congress, bound in light blue rather than the familiar burnt orange, was purloined on the first day of the congress. Major topics of the congress were disturbances of cortical function, head injuries, neuropharmacology, disorders of carbohydrate metabolism and nutrition, and perinatal neurology – haemodynamic events.

The fourth ICNA congress, on March 16–20, 1986, took place in Jerusalem, concurrently with the Satellite Symposium on Child Neurology and Developmental Pediatrics (‘Sharing Issues of Mutual Concern’) sponsored by the Hackensack (New Jersey) Medical Center’s Institute for Child Development on March 21. Dr. Shaul Harel of Tel Aviv was Congress President, Joseph H. French of the USA Chairman of the Scientific Program Committee, and Marvin I. Gottlieb of the USA chair of the satellite symposium. The congress took place during an interval of lessened tension between the Israelis and Palestinians, making it possible to visit the Old City, Jericho and the West Bank.

Dr. Prichard, who was to be Ford Lecturer, was too ill to attend but provided a stirring video of his lecture: ‘Who is a child neurologist?’. Symposia on ‘Genetic and acquired pediatric encephalopathies’, ‘Epilepsy and the developing brain’, ‘Pediatric neurologic diseases with ultrastructural pathology’, ‘Assessment and remediation of young children with central nervous system dysfunction’ were followed each day by free papers and posters on these and other themes. The ensuing publication was edited by Dr. French and others.

References:
French J.H. Harel S. Casaer P. Gottlieb M.I. Rapin I. De Vivo D.C. Child neurology and developmental disabilities. Selected Proceedings of the Fourth International Child Neurology Congress. Paul H Brookes, Baltimore1989

(1986) Abstracts from the Fourth International Child Neurology Congress. March 16-20, 1986, Jerusalem, Israel. J Child Neurol 1 (3):251-88. PMID: 3598131. 

Fifth ICNA Congress (November 5–9, 1990, Tokyo)

• Event: Fifth ICNA Congress
• Dates: November 5–9, 1990
• Location: Tokyo, Japan

Opening Ceremonies

• Royalty Present: Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko
  Those who had the privilege of speaking to the imperial couple before the opening learned that the utterly charming Princess spoke excellent English and had a special interest in handicapped children

Joint Meeting

• 3rd Asian and Oceanian Congress of Child Neurology
• Presidency: Dr. Yukio Fukuyama
• Chairman of the Program Committee: Dr. Shigehiko Kamoshita

Awards

• First John Stobo Prichard Award for a Child Neurologist under age 45
  • Awardee (1990): Dr. Michael V. Johnston (Baltimore)
  • Topic: ‘Psychological and physiological roles for excitatory amino acids in central nervous system development’

Key Lectures

• Frank Ford Memorial Lecture:  Dr Isabelle Rapin - ‘Autism as a neurological disorder’
• Plenary Lectures:
  • Dr. Yoshiyuki Suzuki (Tokyo): ‘Molecular genetics in child neurology’
  • Dr. Hugo Moser (Baltimore): ‘Peroxisomes and pediatric neurological disorders’
  • Dr. Fusahiro Ikuta (Niigata): ‘Fetal neuropathology’
  • Dr. Leon Epstein (Newark, NJ, USA): ‘AIDS and the CNS in children’
  • Dr. Harvey Sarnat (Calgary, Canada): ‘Plasticity and response of the immature brain to injury’
  • Dr. Robert Ouvrier (Sydney): ‘Peripheral neuropathy in childhood’ (Future ICNA monograph topic)

Congress Details

• Attendance: 800 delegates
• Symposia: Sixteen symposia, presented simultaneously in groups of three
• Posters: 329 posters
• Free Papers: 129 free papers
• Audiovisual Presentations: 29 presentations
• Luncheon Seminars: Eight seminars

Translation and Publications

• Simultaneous Japanese/English Translation: Flawless
• Proceedings Published:
  
  • Fukuyama Y, Kamoshita S, Ohtsuka C, Suzuki Y, editors. Modern Perspectives in Child Neurology. Tokyo, The Japanese Society of Child Neurology.

Reference
(1990) Program and abstracts of the Joint Convention of the 5th International Child Neurology Congress and the 3rd Asian and Oceanian Congress of Child Neurology. Tokyo, November 4-9, 1990. Abstracts. Brain Dev 12 (5):550-744. DOI: 10.1016/s0387-7604(12)80229-4 PMID: 1981129. 

Interim 6th ICNA Congress (November 8–13, 1992, Buenos Aires)

• Event: Interim 6th ICNA Congress
• Dates: November 8–13, 1992
• Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Coinciding Event: First Iberoamerican Congress of Pediatric Neurology
• Organized by: Dr. Natalio Fejerman

Congress Details

• Plenary symposia
• Posters and Free Papers
• Proceedings Published:
  • 'New Trends in Pediatric Neurology' edited by Dr. Fejerman and colleagues
  • 'Autismo Infantil y Otros Trastornos del Desarrollo' (Spanish) edited by Dr. Fejerman and others

Awards and Lectures

• Prichard Award: Dr. Bwee Tien Poll-The´ (The Netherlands)
  • Topic: Peroxisomal diseases
• Frank Ford Memorial Lecture: Dr. Yukio Fukuyama
  • Topic: Overview of congenital muscular dystrophy

Iberoamerican Congress

• Last Day: Devoted to the Iberoamerican Congress
• Presentations: Most papers delivered in Spanish
• ICNA President's Presentation: Dr. Jean Aicardi
  • Topic: ‘Child neurology at the end of the century: a new world and its challenges’

Iberoamerican Academy of Pediatric Neurology

• Founded: 1992
• Journal: Acta Neuropediatrica
  • First Published: 1994
  • Unique Feature: Articles in both Spanish and English
  • Distribution: Almost 3000 readers

Reference:

(1992) 6th Congress of the International Child Neurology Association. 1st Iberoamerican Congress of Pediatric Neurology. Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 8-13, 1992. Abstracts. Pediatr Neurol 8 (5):344-411. PMID: 1358083. 

7th ICNA Congress (October 2–8, 1994, San Francisco)

• Event: 7th ICNA Congress
• Dates: October 2–8, 1994
• Location: San Francisco, USA
• Joint Meeting: First joint meeting of the ICNA with the Child Neurology Society (CNS)

Key Figures

• President of the Congress: Dr. David Stumpf (Chicago)
• Chairman of the ICNA Program Committee: Dr. Darryl De Vivo (New York)
• Chairman of the CNS Program Committee: Dr. Michael Johnston (Baltimore)

Program Highlights

• Attendance: 1200 child neurologists and members of other disciplines from around the world
• ICNA Presidential Symposium: ‘A perspective on childhood epilepsies’ organized by Dr. Aicardi
• CNS Presidential Symposium: ‘Development of the cerebral cortex – modern neurobiological perspectives’ organized by Dr. Joseph Volpe (Boston)
• Decade of the Brain Plenary Symposium:
  • Topics: Neurogenetics, ontogeny of receptor systems and brain vulnerability, growth factors in brain development, importance of neuroimaging in understanding brain development, mitochondrial genetics, and human diseases

Key Lectures and Awards

• Frank Ford Lecturer: Dr. Philip R. Dodge (St. Louis)
  • Topic: Autobiographical reminiscences
• Hower Award of the CNS: Dr. Hugo Moser
  • Topic: ‘Adrenoleukodystrophy: genetics, pathophysiology, and therapy’
• John Stobo Prichard Award: Dr. Najoua Miladi (Tunisia)
  • Topic: ‘Epidemiology of child inherited neurological diseases with metabolic basis in Tunisia’
• CNS Young Investigator Awardee: Dr. Mia M. McCollin (Boston)
  • Topic: ‘Molecular analysis of the neurofibromatosis II tumor suppressor’
• Bernard Sachs Lecture of the CNS: Dr. David Prince (Palo Alto, CA)
  • Topic: ‘Epilepsy and the immature brain’

Additional Congress Details

• Symposia: Nine symposia
• Posters and Platform Presentations: 472 posters and presentations
• Social Event: Dinner cruise on the San Francisco bay

Reference:
(1994) 7th Congress of the International Child Association. October 2-8, 1994, San Francisco, California. Abstracts. Pediatr Neurol 11 (2):81-180. PMID: 7945630.

25th Anniversary of ICNA and 8th ICNA Congress (September 13–17, 1998, Ljubljana)

• Event: 25th Anniversary of ICNA and 8th ICNA Congress
• Dates: September 13–17, 1998
• Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia

Attendance

• Participants: Approximately 920 attendees from all continents
• Notable Attendance: Largest number to date of child neurologists from the former USSR and other countries of Eastern Europe

Program Highlights

• Chairman of the Program Committee: Dr. Hugo Moser
• Program Content: Rich fare of symposia, plenary sessions, platform papers, and posters covering every aspect of the field

Key Lectures and Awards

• Frank Ford Memorial Lecture: Dr. Jean Aicardi
  • Topic: ‘Epilepsy, the hidden part of the iceberg’
• John Stobo Prichard Award: Dr. Ingrid Tein (Toronto)
  • Topic: ‘The impact of fatty acid oxidation disorders in child neurology’

Important Sessions

• Focus: The need for simple treatments for epilepsy in children in Africa and other countries with social dislocation, poverty, and extremely young populations

Opening and Closing Ceremonies

• Opening Ceremony: Included a pictorial review of the first 25 years of the ICNA
• Closing Ceremony: Dr. N. Paul Rosman (Boston) delivered a spectacular illustrated history of child neurology from Hippocrates to the present

Publications and Proceedings

• Congress Proceedings: 'New Developments in Child Neurology' edited by the congress president, Dr. Milovoj Velickovic Perat
  • Format: Available at the meeting as a book with a lovely view of Ljubljana on the cover
  • New Developments in Child Neurology, M. Velickovic Perat (ed.), Monduzzi Editore, Bologna (1998)

Cultural Events

• Classical Concert: Thrilling performance
• Entertainment: Folk dancers and other performances

Satellite Symposia

• Locations: London, Venice, Ljubljana, Bled, Vienna, Budapest, and Istanbul
• Topics: Modern methods of investigation in child neurology, neuromuscular disorders, Rett syndrome, rehabilitation, and pediatric behavioral neurology

Joint Congress of ICNA and AOCNA 2002
The 9th International Child Neurology Congress and The 7th Asian and Oceanian Congress of Child Neurology
September 20–25, 2002, Beijing, China

Dear Colleagues, Dear friends, Distinguished Guests and Leaders, Ladies and Gentlemen: Today the 9th International Child Neurology and the 7th Asian and Oceanian Child Neurology Joint Congress opens in Beijing in the season of golden autumn. I am honored on behalf of the congress organizers to extend my sincere welcome to all participants from 72 countries and regions around the world, and to extend my warm welcome to all special guests, outstanding leaders, and to all contributors.

The opening of the Congress coincides with the beginning of a new century, following ‘the decade of the brain’ which saw rapid development in information technology and biological sciences. In the year 2000, for continuing remarkable achievements of neuroscientists of the last century, three more neuroscientists were awarded the Nobel Prize. Today the structure of the human brain and its profound mysteries are being revealed one step at a time. Neuroscience will take its place in the forefront of the biological science of this new century, and moreover, the 21st century is then the ‘era of the brain’.

Concurrent with the progress of world’s economy, big changes can be seen in the spectrum of pediatric illnesses. Along with rapid progress in molecular biology, astounding progress has been made in developmental neuroscience, neurogenetics, neuroimaging, and many other aspects. They greatly promoted clinical diagnosis, treatment, prevention and habilitation for child neurology diseases. Child neurology, with reciprocal and mutual advancement of other related sciences, has become even stronger. Child neurology is increasingly receiving the attention and respect of medicine in every country. At the same time, we, child neurology clinicians, confront new difficulties everyday. How should we prevent the developmental brain damage? How do we guarantee the optimum development of the brain? How can we apply new findings to benefit our patients from the great achievements in Human Genome Project? I believe that at this Congress we will have a great deal of information exchange on topics of mutual interest.

Every country’s child neurology has a history that is worthy of remembrance. Over several decades, several generations of child neurologists have committed themselves to this field. Surmounting difficult struggles, these dedicated individuals have by their efforts personally established child neurology as a recognized discipline, and started and promoted international academic exchanges. Then and only then today’s worldwide child neurology did develop. We will not forget the contributions of them, and especially that their contributions for the progress of science were directed toward a single goal: ‘better health and quality of life for the children of the world’. Their contribution has inspired subsequent generations of young scientists to think beyond the obvious, to stretch contemporary ideas into the future. I am happy today there are several generations of child neurologists seated in this hall. Welcome you. The bright future will belong to all of you.

Today, you have come to Beijing, China. China’s population is 1.2 billion, of which 0.4 billion are children under the age of 18. China’s culture goes back to thousands of years, and its people have a fine tradition of making friends with, and learning from other countries. Now we also want to make our own even greater contributions to the world. After several generations of effort, and through the help given to us by many of you, today child neurology in China has made progress. The very fact that we can host this congress in Beijing makes us proud indeed, and provides us with excellent opportunity to learn from each other.

At this time, I want to thank especially the chairman of the scientific program committee of this Congress. Professor Yoshiyuki Suzuki, through his enormous efforts and the efforts of the committee members, we have planned an outstanding program with a rich academic content including the newest discoveries of child neurology. There are lectures by many world famous child neurologists and neuroscientists. I know we will all surely reap a great harvest.

On behalf of local organizers I would like to express my sincere thanks for the help and friendship from the entire Board of ICNA/AOCNA; for the contributions from all of the organization and company sponsors, and from all of our colleagues. The new century is filled with challenges, we deeply feel the weight of the responsibilities on our shoulders, and each of us has the obligation to exert our best efforts in this new century. Child neurology today occupies an important place in the field of medicine. How will it develop in the future? We are filled with confidence and hope, for the future of world child neurology. Let us together put forth our greatest effort. I wish great success for this congress, and health and happiness to all participants. Please enjoy!

• Congress Leadership

  • Congress President: Professor Xi-Ru Wu
  • Secretaries: Yu-Wu Jiang, Xin-Hua Bao

• Local Organizing Committee Members

  • Qing Lin
  • Fang Cheng Cai
  • Jiong Qin
  • Dao Kai Sun
  • Li Wang
  • Virginia Wong

• International Scientific Program Committee

  • Chair: Professor Yoshiyuki Suzuki
  • Members:
    • Paul Casaer
    • Darryl C. De Vivo
    • Philippe Evrard
    • Natalio Fejerman
    • Shaul Harel
    • Veena Kalra
    • Qing Lin
    • Hugo Moser
    • Milivoj Velickovic Perat
    • Kazuyoshi Watanabe
    • Virginia Wong
    • Xi-Ru Wu

• Highlights

  • First worldwide international child neurology congress held in China.
  • Over 120 well-known speakers invited to give lectures.
  • High academic level of lectures and presentations.
  • Both scientific and social programs were highly appreciated by participants.

Satellite Meetings

Update in the Understanding and Management of Epilepsy

• Organizer: Professor Pongsakdi Visudhiphan
• Location: Bangkok, Thailand
• Date: September 18–19

Autism/Neuromuscular Disorders

• Organizer: Professor Virginia Wong
• Location: Hong Kong, China
• Date: September 18–19

International Symposium on Developmental Pediatrics

• Organizer: Professor Xiaoming Shen
• Location: Shanghai, China
• Date: September 18

Rett Syndrome Satellite Meeting

• Organizers: Professor Sakkubai Naidu, Professor Xi-Ru Wu
• Location: Beijing, China
• Date: September 20

Organization Sponsors

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
• Japanese Society of Child Neurology (JSCN)
• The North American Medical Association, Hong Kong (NORAM)
• Rett Syndrome Research Foundation (RSRF)
• International Rett Syndrome Association (IRSA)

Company Sponsors

• Janssen-Cilag, Johnson and Johnson (Golden sponsor)
• Nestle (China) Ltd.
• Wyeth–Ayerst (China) Ltd.
• Sanofi–Synthelabo Minsheng (China)
• SHS North America (USA)
• Keyi Pharmaceutic Co Ltd., Hubei (China)
• Seikagaku Corporation (Japan)

Scientific Program

Saturday, Sept. 21, 2002

Morning Seminars (07:30–08:20)

• Nutrition and Developing Brain
  • Hans Demmelmair (Germany): Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in perinatal nutrition: functional outcomes
• Peripheral Neuropathy
  • Fang-Cheng Cai (China): Progressive understanding of the pathogenesis of Guillain–Barre´ syndrome
  • Robert Ouvrier (Australia): Advances in childhood neuropathy 2002

Keynote Lecture (08:30–09:00)

• Yoshiyuki Sakaki (Japan): Human genome project and its medical implications

Plenary Lecture 1 (09:00–09:50)

• Michael Johnston (USA): Clinical disorders of brain plasticity

Topic Update 1 (09:50–10:30)

• Yan Shen (China): Disease gene hunting in China
• David R. Colman (USA): The CNS synaptic junction: evolution, architecture, and plasticity of an adhesive device

Symposium 1 (15:30–18:00) Pathogenesis and Prevention of Prenatal and Perinatal Brain Damage

• Wei-Song Shan (USA): Structural and functional studies on cadherins, synaptic adhesion molecules
• Philippe Evrard (France): Basic mechanisms and prevention of prenatal brain damage
• Akihisa Okumura (Japan): Neurophysiological analysis of periventricular leukomalacia in preterm infants
• Akira Oka (Japan): Pathogenesis, plasticity, and prevention of perinatal brain damage

Symposium 2 (15:30–18:00) Neuromuscular Disorders

• Ching H. Wang (USA): The molecular genetics of spinal muscular atrophy: recent progress and therapeutic implication
• Ikuya Nonaka (Japan): Recent advances in congenital muscular dystrophies
• Salvatore Di Mauro (USA): Mitochondrial myopathies
• Ingrid Tein (Canada): Lipid storage myopathies

Symposium 3 (15:30–18:00) Molecular Basis of Neurological Diseases in Children

• Edwin H. Kolodny (USA): Identification and characterization of novel mutations of the aspartoacylase gene in non-Jewish patients with Canavan disease
• Natte Raksadawan (Thailand): Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD)
• Masafumi Matsuo (Japan): Duchenne muscular dystrophy: from gene diagnosis to molecular therapy
• Jaak Jaeken (Belgium): Signal transduction defects: an emerging family of genetic encephalopathies
• Yoshikatsu Eto (Japan): Gene therapy/cell therapy for genetic neurological disorders

Symposium 4 (15:30–18:00) Epilepsies and Related Disorders in Infancy, Childhood and Adolescence

• Yu-Wu Jiang (China): Seizure-induced brain injury in immature rat: short term and long term
• Federico Vigevano (Italy): Idiopathic focal epilepsies in infancy
• Natalio Fejerman (Argentina): Benign focal epilepsies in childhood and adolescence
• Jean Aicardi (France): Myoclonic epilepsies in childhood
• Antonio V. Delgado-Escueta (USA): Lafora’s progressive myoclonus epilepsy: clinical and genetic advances

Sunday, Sept. 22, 2002

Morning Seminars (07:30–08:20)

• Case Discussion
  • Xiang Cai, Yu-Wu Jiang, Xin-Hua Bao, Ying-Hua Zou, Jiong Qin (China): Cerebral vascular malformations: intravascular interventional therapy
  • Yushiro Yamashita, Ikuko Kondo (Japan): Atypical Rett syndrome
• Ethics and Brain Death
  • Stephen Ashwal (USA): The minimally conscious state in children and ethical issues
  • Philippe Evrard (France): Ethical decisions in neurology of early life

Plenary Lecture 2 (08:30–09:20)

• Joseph Volpe (USA): Brain injury in the premature infant – recent advances

Topic Update 2 (09:20–10:00)

• Hiroshi Yoshioka (Japan): Neuropathological studies on neonatal hypoxic–ischemic brain damage in experimental animals
• Petra Huppi (Switzerland): Neuroimaging characteristics of neonatal brain injury

Workshops (10:30–12:00)

• Cerebral Palsy
  • Veena Kalra (India): Etiology and risk factors for cerebral palsy
  • You-Quan Zhong (China): Evaluation of the risk factors associated with cerebral palsy in children
  • Kazuo Kodama (Japan): Severe forms of cerebral palsy
  • WT Philomena Tse (Hong Kong, China): Risk factors for pathological fractures in non-ambulatory cerebral palsy children – a case control study
  • Gaynor Cole (UK): Cerebral palsy – therapeutic possibilities
  • Xue-Juan Zhou (China): Treatment of 140 cerebral palsied children based on a combination of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine
• Epilepsy
  • Qi-Kun Huang (China): The clinical efficacy of midazolam on childhood status epilepticus
  • Jun Li (China): Five children with frontal lobe epilepsy
  • Yutaka Awaya (Japan): Reappraisal of a peculiar form of acute encephalitis/encephalopathy presenting with catastrophic status
  • Tateki Fujiwara (Japan): Study of genotypes and phenotypes of severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy
  • R. van Empelen (The Netherlands): The effects of epilepsy surgery on the quality of life of children
  • Melinda A. Nolan (Australia): Memory impairment in specific childhood epilepsy syndromes
  • Goryu Fukuma (Japan): Genetic abnormalities underlying severe myoclonic epilepsy in infancy in Japanese
  • Berten Ceulemans (Belgium): Severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy and SCN1A: phenotypical–genotypical correlation
  • Osamu Kanazawa (Japan): Rotatory seizures in non-lesional frontal lobe epilepsy – Ictal recordings with Video – EEG, SPECT, and MEG
• Specific Learning Disabilities
  • Che Kan Leong (Hong Kong, China): Dyslexia in the Chinese language
  • Tan Li Hai (Hong Kong, China): FMRI and reading
  • Catherine CC LAM (Hong Kong, China): Clinical diagnosis and management
  • Chok-Wan Chan (Hong Kong, China): Specific learning disabilities (SLD): advocacy

Symposia (15:30–18:00)

• Neuroimaging
  • Kazuie Iinuma (Japan): Introduction: focused on functional neuroimaging
  • Harry Chugani (USA): Applications of PET scanning in pediatric neurology
  • Willam Logan (Canada): Functional MRI (fMRI) in children
  • Stephen Ashwal (USA): Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy in children with acute brain injury
  • Akira Ohnuma (Japan): Diffusion tensor imaging
• Channelopathies
  • Kazuhiro Yamakawa (Japan): Mutations of sodium channels in GEFS+ and SMEI
  • Shinichi Hirose (Japan): Benign familial neonatal convulsions
  • Ingrid Scheffer (Australia): GABA genes in human epilepsy
  • Xiao-Xi Qiao (USA): Mechanisms of epilepsy in a mouse model of calcium channelopathy
  • Jeffrey L. Noebels (USA): Epileptic channelopathies in man and mouse
• What Happens to a Child at Risk for Developmental Delay/Disability
  • Shaul Harel (Israel): Introduction
  • Michael Shevell (Canada): School age outcomes of preschool children diagnosed with either global developmental delay or specific language impairment
  • Giovanni Cioni (Italy): Cerebral visual disorders in children with brain lesions: outcome and correlation with neuroimaging
  • Georg Spiel (Austria): The study investigates long-term effects of slight biological and slight socioeconomic risks on complex achievement variables using two different data sets
  • Yael Leitner (Israel): Neuropsychological outcome of children with IUGR
  • Tatyana Velickovic (Slovenia): The outcome of early intervention in neurodevelopmental disabilities
• Neurometabolic Disorders Update
  • Bridget Wilcken (Australia): Screening for neurometabolic disorders
  • Hui-Ping Shi (China): Postnatal and prenatal diagnosis of lysosomal storage diseases
  • Marc Patterson (USA): Biology and therapy of Niemann–Pick disease, type C
  • Gregory Pastores (USA): Neuropathic Gaucher disease: diagnosis and management
  • Yoshiyuki Suzuki (Japan): New therapeutic approach for lysosomal storage disorders

Monday, Sept. 23, 2002

Morning Seminars (07:30–08:20)

• Medical Informatics
  • David Stumpf (USA): Medical informatics
• Environmental Medicine
  • Xiao-Ming Shen (China): Preventing lead neurotoxicity in Shanghai, China
  • Morri Markowitz (USA): Neurotoxic effects of lead in children

Plenary Lecture 3 (08:30–09:20)

• Kazuyoshi Watanabe (Japan): Epilepsy and the developing brain

Topic Update 3 (09:20–10:00)

• Olivier Dulac (France): Pediatric epilepsy: clinical update
• Ingrid Scheffer (Australia): Genetics of epilepsy

Frank Ford Memorial Lecture (10:30–11:20)

• Hugo Moser (USA): Adrenoleukodystrophy: The challenge of applying 25 years’ knowledge to benefit patients and families

John Stobo Prichard Award Lecture (11:20–12:10)

• Marjo van der Knaap (The Netherlands): Childhood leukoencephalopathies: beyond the image

Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2002

Morning Seminars (07:30–08:20)

• Headache
  • David Rothner (USA): Headache
• Rett Syndrome
  • Yoshiko Nomura (Japan): Short introduction
  • Alison Kerr (UK): The autonomic problem in Rett disorder
  • John Christoudoulou (Australia): MECP2 and beyond: phenotype–genotype correlations in Rett syndrome and related disorders
  • SakkuBai Naidu (USA): Concluding remarks

Plenary Lecture 4 (08:30–09:20)

• Charles Newton (Kenya): Neurological manifestations of falciparum malaria in children

Topic Update 4 (09:20–10:00)

• Veena Kalra (India): Bacterial meningitis
• Hartmut Wekerle (Germany): Immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

Symposia (15:30–18:00)

• Child and Adolescent Epilepsy in the Framework of the ILAE/IBE/WHO Global Campaign against Epilepsy
  • Shunsuke Ohtahara (Japan): Epilepsy in infancy and childhood: incidence, prevalence, and clinical spectrum in infancy and adolescence
  • Satish Jan (India): The ILAE/IBE/WHO global campaign against epilepsy: A progress report
  • Jiang-Zhong Wu (China): A demonstration project of the global campaign against epilepsy in the P.R. China: The methods and the first result
  • Milda Endziniene (Lithuania): The impact of epilepsy: The influence of epilepsy on the lives of the child, the parents, and the siblings
  • Rakhi Sehgal (India): Living with epilepsy – a patient’s story
• Tourette Syndrome
  • James Leckman (USA): Phenomenology and natural history of tic disorders
  • Huei-Shyong Wang (Taiwan, China): Tourette syndrome in Taiwan
  • Yoshiko Nomura (Japan): Tourette syndrome in Asian countries
  • Harvey Singer (USA): Neurobiology of Tourette syndrome
  • John Walkup (USA): Recent advances in genetics on Tourette syndrome
• Neurocutaneous Syndromes
  • Paolo Curatolo (Italy): Advances in understanding neurological and behavioral phenotypes in tuberous sclerosis
  • Eiji Nanba (Japan): Recent progress in mutational analysis of TSC1 and TSC2 genes and functions of the hamartin protein
  • Orvar Eeg-Olofsson (Sweden): Typical and atypical non-neoplastic brain abnormalities on MRI in children and adolescents with neurofibromatosis type 1
  • Ignacio Pascual Castroviejo (Spain): Vascular malformations and neurocutaneous diseases
  • Henri B. Szliwowski (Belgium): The syndrome of facial hemangioma–cerebral cortical and vascular dysplasia: a rare neurocutaneous syndrome associated with epilepsy
• Education of Child Neurologists
  • Robert Ouvrier (Australia): Overview of peripheral neuropathy in childhood 2002
  • Xi-Ru Wu (China): Education of child neurologists in China
  • Julius Familusi (Nigeria): Electroencephalographic photosensitivity among Zimbabwean youths
  • Kenneth Swaiman (USA): Education approach to metabolic abnormalities in childhood
  • Shunsuke Ohtahara (Japan): Intractable pediatric epilepsy syndromes in early infancy

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002

Morning Seminar 9 (07:30–08:20)

• Neuro-Oncology
  • Roger J Packer (USA): Childhood brain tumors: biologic breakthroughs, therapeutic advances, and ongoing challenges

Morning Seminar 10 (15:30–18:00)

• Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
  • Philip Walson (USA): Therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of anti-epileptic drugs in children
  • Hisao Miura (Japan): Developmental and therapeutic pharmacology of antiepileptic drugs

Plenary Lecture 5 (08:30–09:20)

• Pauline Filipek (USA): Screening, diagnosis, and treatment of autistic spectrum disorder

Topic Update 5 (09:20–10:00)

• Toshiaki Hashimoto (Japan): Neuroimaging in autism
• Martha Denckla (USA): ADHD: Current concepts and neurobiology

Symposia (14:00–16:30)

• Pervasive Developmental Disorders
  • Pauline Filipek (USA): Earliest signs of autism in infants
  • James T. McCracken (USA): Genetics
  • Tatsuya Koeda (Japan): Pragmatic difficulties of figurative and sarcastic sentences in pervasive developmental disorders
  • Masutomo Miyao (Japan): Neurophysiology of pervasive developmental disorders
• Neurosurgery
  • Shlomi Constantini (Israel): New technical advances in pediatric neurosurgery
  • Shizuo Oi (Japan): Modern treatment of hydrocephalus with emphasis on neuro-endoscopy
  • Anthony Hockley (UK): Current status of craniofacial surgery
  • Concezio Di Rocco (Italy): Neurosurgical treatment of phacomatoses
  • Toshiaki Abe (Japan): Current treatment of the Chiari malformation with and without syringomyelia
  • Chun-De Li (China): Microsurgical treatment for hypothalamic hamartoma in children with precocious puberty
• Oriental Medicine
  • Virginia Wong (Hong Kong, China): Tongue acupuncture and neurological disorder
  • Ein-Yao Shen (Taiwan, China): Neurotransmitters and acupuncture
  • Ping-Ping Zuo (China): Studies of mechanism of ‘kangxian’ capsule on convulsion in experimental epilepsy rats induced with metrazol
  • Li Wang (China): Antiepileptic action and its immunological mechanisms of traditional Chinese medicine
• Infectious Diseases
  • Anita Belman (USA): HIV-1/AIDS in children
  • Hussain Imam Hj Muhammad Ismail (Malaysia): Viral encephalitis
  • Pongsakdi Visudhiphan (Thailand): Tuberculosis of the central nervous system in children
  • Polrat Wilairatana (Thailand): Management of cerebral malaria
  • Phillip Peterson (USA): New concepts in the immunopathogenesis of central nervous system infections

Reference:

(2002) Abstracts of the 9th International Child Neurology Congress and the 7th Asian and Oceanian Congress of Child Neurology. September 20-25, 2002, Beijing, China. Brain Dev 24 (6):345-663. DOI: 10.1016/s0387-7604(02)00091-8 PMID: 12208449.

(2003) Gilles de la Tourette's Syndrome. Proceedings of the Joint Congress of the 9th International Child Neurology Congress and the 7th Asian and Oceanian Congress of Child Neurology, September 20-25, 2002, Beijing, China, and the Tourette's Syndrome symposium, September 27, 2002, Tokyo, Japan. Brain Dev 25 Suppl 1 ():S1-84. PMID: 14980364.

10th ICNC 2006: Montreal, Canada, June 11-16

Congress Leadership

• Congress President: Dr. Michael Shevell (Canada)
• Chair of the Scientific Program Committee: Dr. Michael Shevell
• ICNA President: Dr. Paolo Curatolo (Italy)

Congress Overview

• Attendance: 1596 registrants from 73 countries
• Scientific Program:
  • Symposia: 30 symposia
  • Abstract Submissions: 650 total, with 118 selected for platform presentations and the rest as posters

Keynote Speakers and Topics

• Leon Epstein: Viral Infections in the CNS of Children, Prevention and Therapeutic Strategies
• Karin Nelson: New Insights into Causes of Cerebral Palsy
• Victor Dubowitz: Therapeutic Innovations in the Neuromuscular Disorders
• Richard Robertson: Current Status and Future Challenges in Fetal and Neonatal Neuroimaging
• Takao Takahashi: Neocortical Histogenesis - Initial Steps Towards Acquiring Higher Cortical Functions

Symposium Themes

• Neonatal brain injury
• Developmental delay/intellectual disability
• Advances in cerebral palsy
• Developmental disorders of neuronal migration
• Cognitive neuroscience in childhood
• The neurologic basis of autism
• Traumatic brain injury
• Pediatric neurotransmitter diseases
• Movement disorders and stereotypies
• Neurometabolic disorders
• Congenital myopathies and muscular dystrophies
• Advances in childhood peripheral neuropathies
• Myasthenia and myasthenic syndromes
• Neuroprotection
• Ischemic stroke in infants and children
• Channelopathies
• The genetic basis of epileptic syndromes
• Epileptic encephalopathies in infancy and childhood
• Medical and surgical treatment of epilepsy
• Myelin disorders
• Neurooncology
• Neuroimmunology
• Revisiting the cerebellum: structure and function
• Updates in pediatric neurosurgery
• The global burden of neurologic disease in children
• CNS infections
• Ethical issues in child neurology
• Neuroinformatics and technology in child neurology

Award Lectures

• Frank Ford Memorial Lecture: Dr. Shunsuke Ohtahara (Japan) - Age-dependent epileptic encephalopathy
• John Stobo Prichard Young Investigator Award: Dr. Berge Minassian (Canada) - Lafora disease: Are we There Yet?
• Sheila Wallace Young Investigator Award: Dr. Dina El-Metwally (Egypt) - Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy. Still haunting.

Interactive Sessions

• Daily special interest group sessions
• Round table discussions by symposia organizers
• ‘Meet the expert’ sessions
• Focus on neuroinformatics and development of ICNApedia

Cultural Highlights

• Classical Music Concert: Performed by the ‘I Medici’ orchestra at St. Patrick’s Basilica
  • Gothic revival architecture with 25-meter columns, rosette stained-glass windows, Casavant Freres pipe organ, and 150 oil paintings
• Old Montreal Experience: Enjoyed the croissanteries, charcuterie, and fireworks display to classical music at the St. Lawrence River
• Special Program Insert: “Michael’s Montreal” - Dr. Michael Shevell’s tips on favorite Montreal restaurants and experiences

(2006) Abstracts of the 10th International Child Neurology Congress, June 11-16, 2006, Montreal, Canada. Neuropediatrics 37 Suppl 1 ():S1-183. PMID: 16775886. 

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Joint Congress of the 12th International Child Neurology Congress and the 11th Asian and Oceanian Congress of Child Neurology Brisbane, Australia
27 May - 1 June 2012
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