Wednesday 6 November 2024

09.30 – 10.30

Neurological Examination and Investigations in Psychiatric Settings - Perspectives from a Neurologist

Dr Krista Farrell

Consultant Neurologist, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

  • Helpful tips on the Neurological Examination
  • Autoimmune encephalitis and other autoimmune disorders
  • Functional Neurological Disorders

10.30 – 11.00

BREAK

11.00 – 12.00

Alzheimer’s and other dementias in Psychiatry patients

Dr Aaron Sturrock

Consultant Neurologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

  • Alzheimer's disease vs other dementias
  • The tests to be familiar with
  • Alzheimer's and schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Psychosis
  • Does schizophrenia predispose dementia?
  • Pseudodementia and dementia
  • What can a psychiatrist do for Alzheimer's patients?

12.00 – 13.00

EEG, Epilepsy and Anticonvulsants

Professor Andrea Cavanna

Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Consultant in Behavioural neurology at the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Birmingham, and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust

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

13.00 – 13.40

LUNCH

13.40 – 14.40

Movement Disorders

Professor Andrea Cavanna

Professor of Neuropsychiatry and Consultant in Behavioural neurology at the Department of Neuropsychiatry, Birmingham, and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust

  • Assessment of movement disorders, tremors
  • Common neurodevelopmental movement disorders
  • Tics and Tourette syndrome
  • Common neurodegenerative movement disorders
  • Parkinson’s Disease - diagnosis and management

14.40 – 15.40

Neuropsychiatry in Long COVID

Dr Matthew Butler

NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, Psychiatrist, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

  • Common presentations of FND: core and associated symptoms
  • Diagnosis of FND: positive clinical signs
  • Overlap between FND and other disorders
  • Treatment avenues
  • Looking to the future

15.45 – 16.00

BREAK

16.00 – 17.15

Neuroimaging in Psychiatry

Dr Maureen Dumba

Consultant Neuroradiologist at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

  • The relevant anatomy
  • Kinds of imaging available, CT, MRI, etc.
  • What images to order and when?
  • 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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