13th International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) School on Pre-Surgical Evaluation for Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery (EPODES Advanced II)

13th International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) School on Pre-Surgical Evaluation for Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery (EPODES Advanced II) is organized by International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), TA-SERVICE s.r.o. (Congress Agency) and will be held from Jan 22 - 26, 2024 at HOTEL INTERNATIONAL BRNO, Brno, Czech Republic.

Description:
13th EPODES Advanced II is an interactive course on surgically remediable epilepsies, presurgical evaluation, scalp and intracranial EEG, neuropsychology, imaging and psychiatric issues of surgical patients before and after surgery. EPODES courses are organized in three-year cycles. This year the course will be dedicated to epilepsy surgery focused on paediatric age, palliative surgery and neuromodulation. The program consists of presentations by keynote speakers and case presentations by tutors and students.

The course will consist of an intensive 5 days program with alternating face to face lectures, video-demonstrations and case presentations by students as well as tutors. Students will be neurologists, neurosurgeons and neuropsychologists from centres where there is interest to develop a full epilepsy surgery program. Tutors, representing all relevant professional fields, are invited from representative epilepsy surgery programs throughout Europe.

The course program will offer an advanced information about epilepsy surgery for surgically remediable epilepsies in adults and children. Students will learn about the presurgical evaluation with scalp and intracranial video EEG, imaging and neuropsychology, the surgical procedures and the psychosocial and psychiatric issues of surgical patients, before and after surgery.

Great emphasis will be put on practical aspects relating to the identification of suitable patients, the possibilities of performing surgery (non-invasive video-EEG, MRI, neuropsychology) evaluation the recognition of potential red flags, the indications for additional studies, including intracranial studies and functional neuroimaging.

For this reason, these subjects will not only be dealt with in plenary theme lectures but notably during group discussions where students will present and discuss patients from their own practice for surgical options and where tutors will present representative cases in a stepwise format, allowing the students to follow the decision-making process.

Both the student and tutor presentations should be interactive with all group members actively participating in the clinical discussion, the tutor acting as moderator.

Interaction is also to be stimulated during the plenary lectures and during breaks and meals when students and faculty will sit together and students may discuss clinical problems with the faculty or amongst themselves.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.