Programme

Northern Lights Neuroscience Symposium 2024: Expanding spectrum of common dementia disorders
Hanasaari, Finland

Preliminary program
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