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