60 minutes

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

Dr Krista Farrell

Consultant Neurologist, West Hertfordshire NHS Trust, and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square

  • Helpful tips on the Neurological Examination
  • Autoimmune encephalitis and other autoimmune disorders
  • Alzheimer’s and other dementias - Cognitive Examination and Use of Biomarkers
  • Functional Neurological Disorders

60 minutes

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
  • Guide to the EEG
  • Cognitive problems

60 minutes

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

60 minutes

Neuropsychiatry and Long COVID

Dr Matthew Butler

Wellcome Doctoral Clinical Research Fellow (King’s College London) and Specialist Registrar in Psychiatry (South London and Maudsley)Trust

  • Presentations
  • Psychology treatments
  • Medical treatments
  • Controversies
  • Overlap with psychiatric disorders

60 minutes

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.