A two-day seminar on clinical, cognitive, and brain imaging evaluations in drug-resistant epilepsy

A two-day seminar on clinical, cognitive, and brain imaging evaluations in drug-resistant epilepsy was held on February 20st & 21st, 2019 at NBML.

The main subjects of the seminar were structural imaging and neural function, neural-clinical psychology, Electrophysiology, and electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain in the pre-operation evaluation, and also:

• Long term monitoring in EPU before surgery
• Reading and interpretation of EEG signals of epileptic activity
• How to design cognitive fMRI tasks?
• How to interpret fMRI findings?
• How to apply neuro-psych tests in pre-operation evaluations?
• Neuroimaging findings in epilepsy
• MRI Structural biomarkers in epilepsy
• Why and how transcranial stimulations can be used in epilepsy evaluations?

Interested professors and students from different disciplines took part in this seminar.

Speakers in alphabetical order:

• Dr. Sanaz Ahmadi
• Dr. Marjan Asadollahi
• Dr. Babak Babakhani
• Dr. Majid Barakatin
• Dr. Mahgol Tavakoli
• Dr. Narges Hosseini Tabatabayi
• Dr. Amir Hossein Javadi
• Dr. Elham Rahimian
• Dr. Reza Rostami
• Dr. Mahmoud Motamedi
• Dr. Jafar Mehvari Habibabadi
• Dr. Mohammad Reza Nazemzadeh
• Dr. Reza Nilipour
• Dr. Zahra Vahabi
• Dr. Sohrab Hashemi feshari