Registrar’s Prize in Clinical Neuroscience
Director: Dr. Christopher McGuigan
Sponsored by: Biogen Idec Ireland
22,Merrion Square, Dublin
November 7th 2014
09.00 – 09.20Registration
09.20 – 09.30Welcome and Introduction
Dr. Christopher McGuigan
09.30Novel use of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator in an acute holocord spinal epidural haematoma in a patient with coagulopathy.
Sweeney KJ, O’Sullivan P, Bolger C.
09.41Intracranial meningioma harbouring a colon metastasis
Dunlea O, O’Brien D, Farrell M.
09.52Metastasis to the Medulla: A Rare Entity
Duddy JC, Grandish J, O’Brien D.
10.03Unusual Brain Stone; Heavily Calcified Primary Neoplasm With Some Features Suggesting Angiocentric Glioma.
Sajjad J, Kaliaperumal C, Bermingham N, Marks C, Keohane C
10.14Periodic Muscle Paralysis – a different perspective
Munteanu T, Redmond J, Langan Y, Brett F.
10.25Funny speech in a dialysis patient
Olszewska DA, Lynch T, Smyth S.
10.36“Tiptoeing Around the Edges”
Gaughan M, Bermingham N, O’Leary P, Cronin S.
10.47Another case of refractory chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy or what?
Chalissery A, Smyth S, Murray B, O’Rourke K, Lynch T.
10.58Supernumerary Phantom Limb: Discussion of a rarely seen Neurological Phenomenon.
Doherty CM, Forbes RB.
11.15 – 11.40Tea and Coffee
11.40Unmasking the Harlequin
Lonergan R, McGurgan I, Farrell C, Killeen R, Connolly S, Tubridy N.
11.51Acute Cerebral Infarction as the Presenting Feature of anti-PL-7 Anti-Synthetase Syndrome.
McNicholas N, Kennedy M, Ryan AM.
12.02“Beware the Wicklow Way?”
O’Dowd S, Alexander M, Murphy S.
12.13A case of mitochondrial cytopathy with a novel MTTD (mt-tRNA) mutation.
Kearney H, Farrell MF, Taylor R, Lynch J.
12.24Spastic Ataxia due to SPG 7 mutation-Is it in the eyes
Bhattacharjee S, MacCarthy A, Smyth S, Murray B, Lynch T.
12.35“Metal Mickey”
Kinney M, Hunt S.
12.46Iron Propelled Movements
Abkur T, Lynch B, Lynch J.
12.57The first Irish case of Mucolipidosis Type IV
Gorman K, King MD.
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15Attention and Motor Preparation in Freezing of Gait: An Evoked Potential Perspective.
Fearon C, Wächter S, Butler JS, McDonnell C, Killane I, Stoneman S, Magennis B, Lynch T, Reilly RB.
14.31The diagnostic usefulness of smartphone video recording in psychogenic non-epileptic seizures
McGinty R, Costello D.
14.47Sun exposure is an environmental factor for the development of blepharospasm.
Molloy A, Williams L, Kimmich O, Butler JS, Beiser I, McGovern E, O’Riordan S, Reilly RB, Walsh C, Hutchinson M.
15.03Validating the Brief International Cognitive Assessment for Multiple Sclerosis (BICAMS) tool in an Irish population with multiple sclerosis (MS).
O’Connell K, Langdon D, Tubridy N, Hutchinson M, McGuigan C.
15.19Sex Hormones Modulate Glutamate Reuptake By Spinal Excitatory Amino Acid Transporters In Rat Spinal Cord
Sajjad J, Cryan JF, O’Mahony SM.
15.35Women do it better: sexual dimorphism in temporal discrimination.
Williams L, Kimmich O, Molloy A, Butler JB, O’Riordan S, Reilly RB, Hutchinson M.
15.51Clinical Implications of screening for NMDAr antibodies in first episode psychosis.
Kelleher E, McNamara P, Fitzmaurice B, Walsh R , Langan Y, Whitty P, Vincent A, Gill M, Doherty CP, Corvin A
16.30Tea and Coffee
Judges deliberation
16.45 Announcement and Presentation of awards