Investigators Workshop | Multi-disciplinary Approaches for Cognitive and Affective Fingerprinting in Epilepsy

Saturday, December 4, 2021
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OVERVIEW :

This workshop highlights recent efforts to characterize cognitive and affective abilities in individual patients, leveraging cutting-edge behavioral, imaging and electrophysiological techniques.  

Cognitive and affective co-morbidities contribute to the overall burden across epilepsy syndromes. Precise characterization of these functions and their underpinnings is crucial to establish individual phenotypes, and devise therapeutic interventions tailoring individual needs. This session covers: 

  1. Behavioral assays to address inter-individual differences in cognitive impairment in temporal lobe epilepsy 
  2. Task-based neuroimaging techniques characterizing cognitive network organization 
  3. Intracranial EEG analyses probing affective and cognitive processing in patients with insights derived from single neurons to population neuronal dynamics 

Learning Objectives:

Following participation in this activity, participants will be able to: 

  • Characterize phenotypic variations in cognitive and affective functions, and impairments in single patients, using behavioral methods and novel connectome analysis 
  • Explain cutting-edge dynamic network analyses to profile large-scale systems involved in executive and language function via task-based functional MRI, and obtain patient-specific biomarkers of dysfunction 
  • Interrogate circuits involved in cognitive and emotional processes using intracranial investigations of the mesial temporal lobe 

Program:

Moderators: Boris C. Bernhardt, PhD and Carrie McDonald, PhD 

Speakers: Lorenzo Caciagli, MD, PhD, Anny Reyes, MS, and Jack Lin, MD, FAES 

Activity Type
Investigators Workshop
Credit
Non-CME
Format
In person
On-demand
Career Stage
Early Career (typically 0-5 years from completion of training)
Mid-Career (typically 6-15 years from completion of training)
Senior (typically >15 years from completion of training)
Audience
Clinicians
Fellows/Trainees
Scientists/Researchers
Demographic
Clinical
First-time Attendees
Research
Young Professionals