Northern Lights Neuroscience Symposium 2024:

Preliminary program
Northern Lights Neuroscience Symposium 2024: Expanding Spectrum of Common Dementia Disorders
Hanasaari, Helsinki, Finland

Thursday, 26 September 2024

10.00-10.30 Poster viewing and coffee

10.30 Welcoming words

10.45 Introduction:
• Expanding spectrum of dementia disoders - Prof. Irina Alafuzoff, Uppsala, Sweden
11.30- 13.00 Limbic predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE)
• Neuropathology – Prof. Peter Nelson Kentucky, USA
• Clinical features/Imaging - Prof. David Wolk, UPENN, USA
13.00-14.00 Lunch and poster viewing
14.00-14.45 Novel forms of tauopathies
• PART, ARTAG etc. –Prof. Gabor Kovacs, Toronto, Canada
14.45-15.15 Abstract presentations
15.15-15.45 Coffee break and poster viewing
15.45—16.30 Patrik Sourander Lecture
• The role of choroid plexus in neurological diseases - Prof. Maria Lehtinen, Harvard, USA
16.30-18.30 Free time (time for exploring Hanasaari, sauna and swimming)
18.30 – Networking event (Cruise in the archipelago of Helsinki and dinner in the center - Katajanokan kasino)

Friday, 27 September 2024

9.30-10.00 Abstract presentations
10.00-11.30 Subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease
• Neuropathology - Prof. Melissa Murray, Jacksonville, USA
• Imaging - Assistant prof. Jacob Vogel, Lund, Sweden
11.30-12.30 Lunch and poster viewing
12.30-14.00 Subtypes of Lewy body diseases
• Clinical features/imaging - Prof. Per Borghammer, Aarhus, Denmark
• Neuropathology - Assoc. prof. Liisa Myllykangas, Helsinki, Finland
14.00-14.30 Coffee and poster viewing
14.30 – 15.15 Vascular cognitive impairment
• Pathology, clinical features - Prof. Masafumi Ihara, Osaka, Japan
15.15-16.00 Mixed pathology
• Prof. Johannes Attems, Newcastle, UK
16.00 Closing remarks
16.15-17.30 General assembly of SNS for members