14th International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) School on Pre-Surgical Evaluation for Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery (EPODES Basic)

14th International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) School on Pre-Surgical Evaluation for Epilepsy and Epilepsy Surgery (EPODES Basic) is organized by International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), TA-SERVICE s.r.o. (Congress Agency) at HOTEL INTERNATIONAL BRNO, Brno, Czech Republic.

Course Description:
14^th EPODES Basic 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 mainly basic information including selection of surgical candidates, presurgical evaluation, different focal epilepsies-Surgical techniques and outcome. The programme 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. Tutors, representing all relevant professional fields, are invited from representative epilepsy surgery programs throughout Europe.

The course program will offer mainly basic information including selection of surgical candidates, presurgical evaluation, different focal epilepsies-Surgical techniques and outcome. 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.