3rd Neurology Update
for the Psychiatrist

This unique course is organised by Infomed Research and Training,
on Tuesday 16 March 2010 at the Russell Square Conference Centre, Russell Square House, London

Programme Advisors:

• Dr Niruj Agrawal, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, St George's Hospital, London

About this Course:

• This course is aimed at Consultants, Registrars and Staff Grades in Psychiatry

• This course has been reviewed in the light of delegates’ evaluation of the first and second update

• A practical focus on the assessment and management of difficult medical neurological disorders relevant to Psychiatric practice – what you won’t find in the textbooks

• Focuses on the day-to-day medical neurological psychiatrist problems

• Lectures by leading Neurologists

• Four Discussion Forums for practical discussion of grey cases in Psychiatric practice, involving the neurological topics addressed in the morning lectures – in depth analysis of real cases.

Faculty includes:

All consultants with a proven track record in the dissemination of medical know-how to front-line Clinicians.

• Dr Michael Samuel, Consultant Neurologist,  King’s College, London

• Prof Steven Hirsch, Consultant Psychiatrist, Imperial College

• Dr Howard Ring, Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Cambridge and Cambridge &
  Peterborough Foundation Trust

• Dr John Moriarty, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

• Dr Prem Rangi, Consultant Neuroradiologist, Royal Free Hospital, London

• Dr Robert Elwes, Consultant Neurologist and Neurophysiologist, King’s College, London

• Dr Nora Turjanski, Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist, Royal Free Hospital

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Discussion Forums

• Neurological examinations in psychiatric settings
• Assessment of common neurological conditions, such as headaches, dizziness and neuropathy
• Role of commonly used investigations

• Assessment of movement disorders, tremors
• Parkinson’s Disease - diagnosis and management
• What you need to know about antibasal ganglia antibodies
• Drug induced movement disorders – assessment and management
• Multiple sclerosis

• Epilepsy – investigation, diagnosis and management
• Neuropsychiatric consequences of epilepsy
• Anticonvulsants
• Guide to the EEG
• Cognitive problems

Discussion Forum A
Neurological Examination & Investigations
Facilitated by Prof Steven Hirsch,
Consultant Psychiatrist, Imperial College with
Dr Simon Shields, Consultant Neurologist,
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital


Discussion Forum B
Movement Disorders, Demyelination
and Degenerative Disorders
Facilitated by Dr John Moriarty, Consultant Neuropsychiatrist, with Dr Michael Samuel, Consultant Neurologist, King’s College, London


Discussion Forum C
EEG, Epilepsy & Neuropsychiatry
Facilitated by Dr Niruj Agrawal,
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist with Dr Robert Elwes, Consultant Neurologist and Neurophysiologist

Discussion Forum D
Neuro-Imaging in Psychiatry
Facilitated by Dr Nora Turjanski,
Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist,
Royal Free Hospital with Dr Prem Rangi,
Consultant Neuroradiologist,
Royal Free Hospital, London

• Different kinds of imaging available, how it assist, when to order?
• Excluding neurological causes – is it psychiatric
  or neurological?
• Tumours, dementia and other detectable conditions
• Understanding the report, MRI sequences & their usefulness

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