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Commission Members
Michael Trimble
London, England |
Steffi Koch-Stoecker
Bielefeld, Germany |
Cesare Cornaggia
Milano, Italy |
John Gates
Minnesota, USA |
Kousuke Kanemoto
Aichi-gun, Japan |
E.S. Krishnamoorthy
Chennai Tamil Nadu, India |
John Moriarty
London, England |
Frank Besag
Bedford, England |
Bettina Schmitz, Chair
Berlin, Germany |
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Subcommissions
| Epilepsy surgery |
Learning disability |
| Dissociative seizures |
Affective disorders |
| Periictal disorders |
Transcultural aspects |
| Behavioural side effects of Anticonvulsants |
Aims
- To improve the knowledge of epileptologists
with respect to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of
psychiatric disorders in people with epilepsy
- To develop standardised research instruments for the asessment
of psychiatric disorders
in epilepsy
- To explore transcultural differences in the epidemiology
of psychiatric disorders in people with epilepsy.
Commission Activities
July 31, 2003 to June 30, 2004
Roundtable discussion: Neurobiological links of epilepsy,
bipolar disorder and anticonvulsants, Berlin, Germany, 11-18
July 2004.
Workshop: Cognitive and Behavioural Outcomes of Epileptic Syndromes,
Bologna, Italy, 8-9 October, 2004
Upcoming Activities
Joint meeting with the Commission on Transcultural Affairs in
India, September 2005: Transcultural Perspectives in the Neuropsychiatry
of Epilepsy.
Main sessions and parallel meetings in Paris with psychiatric
topics, ILAE August 2005, planned together with Y. Inoue: Main
Session: Affective disorders in people with epilepsy, Post Main
Session: Anxiety disorders in people with epilepsy, Parallel Session
1: Epilepsy and psychosis, Parallel Session 2: Psychiatric issues
in epilepsy surgery, Parallel Session 3: Epilepsy and autism spectrum
disorders, Breakfast Seminar: Attention disorders in children with
epilepsy.
Bettina Schmitz
Chair
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