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Third International Congress on Neuropathic Pain

Workshops & Lectures at NeuPSIG 2010

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Wann 27.05.2010 09:00 bis
30.05.2010 12:30
Wo Athens, Greece
Name CONGRESS SECRETARIAT, Kenes International
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NeuPSIG 2010 will feature an advanced scientific program, with keynote and plenary lectures, topical workshops, industry sponsored symposia and poster presentations.


Participants can choose from six different workshop tracks: Treatment (T), Syndromes (C), Mechanisms (M), Assessment (A), Structure and Organisation of the CNS (S), Interventions (B).

Thursday, May 27, 2010

09:00 - 10:30

Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Local Anesthetics
C - Radicular Pain
M - Primary Headaches
S - Astrocyte Regulation via neural glial interactions

11:00 - 12:30

Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Management of Central Pain
C - Diabetic Neuropathy
M - NP and other pathophysiologies
A - How to diagnose NP
S - Autonomic & microvascular dysfunction in CRPS
B - Neuropathic Pain Management

17:30 – 19:00

Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Emerging Drug Treatments
C - Post Herpetic Neuralgia
M - Non Dermatomal Somatosensory Deficits
A - Learning & Placebo Effect
S - Trigeminal Pains
B - Which patients might benefit from SCS?

 

Friday, May 28, 2010 

15:30 – 17:00

Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Personalized Treatment
C - Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
M - Sodium Channels
A - Sensory Testing by Primary Care doctors
S - The Spinothalamic Tract
B - NP in Cancer Patients



Saturday, May 29, 2010

11:30 – 13:00

15:30 – 17:00

Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Opioid-tolerance and Hyperalgesia
C - Mechanisms of TGN
M - Surrogate Models
A - Attention to Pain
S - Genes involved in peripheral neuropathy and its treatment
B - Which Blocks Work for NPP?

Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Opioids for Chronic NP
C - Postsurgical Pain
M - Abeta Fibres in Paroxysmal Pain
A - NeuPSIG Recommendations
S – Central Neuropathic Pain: Anical and Human Studies
B - Treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia

 

Sunday, May 30, 2010

09:00– 10:30

Parallel Workshops & Interactive Sessions
T - Cost Effectiveness of Treatment
C - HIV Sensory Polyneuropathies
M - Endogenous Pain Modulation
A - Spontaneous Activity in Nociceptors
S - Genetics & NPP
B - (Pulsed) Radiofrequency

PLENARY & SPONSORED LECTURES

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Friday, May 28, 2010

14:30 – 15:30

09:00 – 11:00

Keynote Theme: Stimulation of the Central Nervous System-Mechanisms and Management

Spinal Cord Stimulation - Richard North, UK 
Motor cortex stimulation for chronic pain: can we proceed from phenomenology to mechanisms - Luis Garcia-Larrea, France

The Spinal Cord
Peripheral Sodium Channels as Gate-Keepers for Pain - Suleyman Dib-Hajj, USA 
Chemokines in Neuropathic Pain - Steve McMahon Novel opioid actions in the spinal cord -
Jurgen Sandkuhler, Austria
Spinal cord injury pain - from symptom to pathology - Gunnar Wasner, Germany

 

Saturday, May 29, 2010

08:00 - 09:00

Parallel Sponsored Breakfast Sessions:
The science behind stimulation: Anatomical considerations for successful pain therapy. Meet the Experts Session Sponsored by St. Jude Medical
Meet the Experts Session Sponsored by Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd

09:00 – 11:00

Genetics and Epidemiology 
Epidemiology of Neuropathic Pain.  What do we really know? -Blair Smith, UK
 Pain Genes - Marshall Devor, Israel 
The threat of chronic pain - Johann Vlayen, Belgium


Sunday, May 30, 2010

11:00 – 12:30

Drugs 
Neuropathic Pain Clinical Trials and Tribulations: There’s Many a Slip ‘Twixt Cup and Lip
Robert Dworkin, USA 
Drug treatments for NPP – looking at the evidence with a cold and fishy eye 
 Andrew Moore, UK
Peter Nathan, His Work - Geoff Schott, UK 

 

http://www2.kenes.com/neuropathic/Documents/Timetable.pdf