Saturday, June 1, 2002
18:00 Welcome
Giancarlo Comi and Corrado Messina
Honorary Lecture: Neurological Rehabilitation
Alan Thompson
Sunday, June 2, 2002
Session I: Epidemiology
Chairman: Alan Thompson
08:00 Profile of cognitive impairment
Stephen Rao
08:30 Memory dysfunction in MS
John DeLuca
08:50 Cognitive impairment and MS phenotypes
Giancarlo Comi
09:20 Natural history
Maria Pia Amato
09:40 General discussion
Alan Thompson
10:00 Coffee break
Session II: Assessment
Chairman: William Beatty
10:30 Extensive evaluation
Dawn Langdon
11:00 Screening for cognitive dysfunction and a concensus on minimal examination
Ralph Benedict
11:20 Validation of short batteries
Alessandra Solari
11:40 Methodological problems in outcome studies
Gordon Chelune
12:00 General discussion
William Beatty
12:20 Lunch
Session III: Pathophysiology (MRI)
Chairman: Robert Grossman
16:00 MRI techniques in MS cognitive dysfunction
Robert Grossman
16:30 MRI correlates of dementias
Massimo Filippi
17:00 Functional MRI in attentional disorders
Iris-Katharina Penner
17:20 General discussion
Robert Grossman
18:00 Coffee break
Session IV: Pathophysiology (other techniques)
Chairman: Giancarlo Comi
18:30 PET-SPET
Eraldo Paulesu
19:00 Cognitive potentials
Geoff Barrett
19:20 EEG
Letizia Leocani
19:40 Cognitive dysfunction and the immune system
Gianvito Martino
20:00 General discussion
Giancarlo Comi
Monday, June 3, 2002
Session V: Quality of life
Chairman: Stephen Rao
08:00 Quality of life measures and issues in assessment
Jill Fischer
08:30 Impact of cognitive dysfunction
Graham Beaumont
09:00 Cognitive fatigue
Lauren Krupp
09:30 General discussion
Stephen Rao
10:00 Coffee break
Session VI: Treatment
Chairman: Jurg Kesselring
10:30 Impact of etiologic treatments on cognition
Scott Patten
11:00 Interferons and cognition
Xavier Montalban
11:30 Cognitive rehabilitation
Sarah Raskin
12:00 General discussion
Jung Kesselring
12:30 Lunch
Session VII: Affective disorders
Chairman: Michel Clanet
16:00 Depression
Michele Montreuil
16:30 Relationship of depression and cognitive dysfunction
Peter Amett
16:50 MRI correlates of depression
Marco Rovaris
17:10 Emotional liability
Jurg Kesselring
17:30 Pathophysiology and treatment
Anthony Feinstein
17:50 General discussion
Michel Clanet
18:10 Coffee break
Session VIII: Concluding remarks
18:30 Assessment and monitoring of cognitive and psychiatric dysfunction in MS
Jill Fischer
19:00 Pathophysiology of cognitive and psychiatric dysfunction in MS
Stephen Rao
19:30 Future activities
Giancarlo Comi
20:00 Meeting ends
