SNC'21 Programme

Thursday, 23 September 2021


13:45	Opening of the SNC'21 \| 13:45—14:00

14:00	Symposium \| 14:00—16:00 SARS-CoV-2 and Brain Chair: Maja Bresjanac
	Neuro-COVID - what it is and what it is not Raimund Helbok
	Neurological Associations of COVID-19 Vaccines Jennifer Frontera
	Learning during the pandemic: mapping potential educational inequalities across Europe Zsuzsa Blaskó
	Cognitive and Neurological Consequences of COVID-19 Adrian Owen

16:00	Symposium \| 16:00—18:00 Metabolic Brain Imaging in Neurodegenerative Disorders Chair: Matej Perovnik and Maja Trošt
	Mechanisms of tau pathology spreading in Alzheimer’s disease and 4R tauopathies Nicolai Franzmeier
	Developing and Interpreting a Deep Learning Model for Alzheimer’s Disease Tracking Alison Deatsch
	Technical Factors Affecting Image Quality in PET Mauro Namías
	Cognition-related functional topographies in Parkinson’s disease: Localized loss of the ventral default mode network Katharina A Schindlbeck
	Metabolic correlates in PSP clinical subtypes Gloria Martí-Andrés
	Specific Metabolic Brain Patterns in Alzheimer’s dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies Matej Perovnik
	Correlations between brain metabolism and neuropathology in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Tomaž Rus

18:15	Plenary talk \| 18:15—19:00 Can brain imaging unravel the tangled web of neurodegeneration? Thilo van Eimeren

Friday, 24 September 2021


11:00	Short Oral Presentations Session I

11:00	Biogen satellite symposium: Nusinersen treatment of spinal muscular atrophy Vladka Salapura

11:30	Pfizer satellite symposium: From transthyretin neuropathy to cardiomyopathy Janez Zidar, Gregor Zemljič

12:00	Dr. Janez Faganel Memorial lecture \| 12:00—12:45 Small fiber neuropathy Giuseppe Lauria

13:00	Symposium \| 13:00—14:30 Deep Brain Stimulation for movement disorders – A neuroimaging perspective Chair: Maja Trošt and Dejan Georgiev
	Non-motor symptoms in Parkinson's disease and Dystonia: Neuroimaging perspective Vladimira Vuletić
	The effect of Deep Brain Stimulation on Brain Metabolism in Movement Disorders Maja Trošt
	Parkinson's disease as a network disorder: Lessons from connectivity studies Rok Berlot
	Frequency modulation in deep brain stimulation: Does it work and is there neuroimaging proof of its action? Dejan Georgiev
	Impulsivity in STN-DBS PD: More than a unitary phenomenon Tjaša Mlinarič
	Effects of subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on language in advanced Parkinson's disease Živa Drakulić

13:00	Symposium \| 13:00—18:00 Ljubljana Clinical Neurophysiology Symposium Chair: Blaž Koritnik
	Pattern recognition approach to neuropathy and neuronopathy Richard J. Barohn
	New 2021 EAN/PNS CIDP guideline Peter Van den Bergh
	Multifocal motor neuropathy Bruce V. Taylor
	Paraproteinemic neuropathies Elie Naddaf
	Inherited neuropathies Michaela Auer-Grumbach
	Small fiber neuropathy – Slovenian experience Mateja Baruca Grad
	Measurement of axonal excitability Mihai Moldovan
	Investigations of cardiovascular autonomic nervous system Ellen Merete Hagen
	Utility of ultrasonography in polyneuropathies Simon Podnar

15:00	Symposium \| 15:00—19:45 Educational Workshop on Proteostasis and Protein Misfolding in CNS Disorders

18:00	Roche satellite symposium: SMA - new treatment options Damjan Osredkar, Lea Leonardis

19:00	AOŽ Memorial lecture \| 19:00—19:45 Genetic prion disorders and patient-scientist's mandate Sonia M. Vallabh

19:45	Neuroscience and Society Dialogue: Conversation with Dr. Sonia M. Vallabh

Saturday, 25 September 2021


11:00	Short Oral Presentations Session II

12:00	Plenary talk \| 12:00—12:45 Systems all the way down: studying mental health problems as biopsychosocial systems Eiko Fried

13:00	Symposium \| 13:00—15:00 Music and Brain: Evidence-based music interventions in medicine Chair: Igor M. Ravnik and Uroš Kovačič
	Neurology of Music and Brain Daniele Schoen
	Research towards evidence-based music interventions Stefan Koelsch
	The mother's voice, singing and speaking, as a special tool for early interventions in the NICU Manuela Filippa
	Heart rate variability in relation to self-selected music or music genres preselected by the researchers Uroš Kovačič

15:00	Symposium \| 15:00—17:00 Brain health across the lifespan – Findings from the Lifebrain project Chair: Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne
	Ageing and brain imaging in Lifebrain Klaus P. Ebmeier for Lifebrain Consortium
	What can blood biomarkers tell us about the brain? Christian A. Drevon
	What is brain health? Perceptions of respondents to the Global Brain Health Survey Isabelle Budin-Ljøsne for Lifebrain Consortium
	Brain asymmetry in aging and Alzheimer's disease James M. Roe

17:00	Plenary talk \| 17:00—17:45 Extracellular vesicles as stress signals: Identifying novel mechanisms of neurodevelopmental programming Tracy Bale

17:45	SNC'21 Closing \| 17:45—18:00

Short oral presentations (Posters)

Friday, 24 September 2021


11:00	Short Oral Presentations Session I
	Effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on language performance in Alzheimer’s Disease: a Slovene-speaker case study Georgia Roumpea
	The Alzheimer’s Disease Assessment Scale–Cognitive Subscale (ADAS-Cog): standardisation of Slovenian version Janina Ulbl
	DNA methylation of candidate genes BDNF and COMT in Alzheimer's disease Alja Videtić Paska
	Expression of Na+,K+-ATPase isoenzymes and myokines in cultured human myotubes innervated by rat spinal cord explants Vid Jan

Saturday, 25 September 2021


11:00	Short Oral Presentations Session II
	DNA methylation of candidate genes BDNF and COMT in Alzheimer's disease Alja Videtić Paska
	Role of PDGFRα - Integrin interactions in Anoikis resistance mediated glioblastoma progression Pampa Pain
	HMGB1 inhibition attenuates lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced neuroinflammation, cognitive dysfunction and sickness behavior Devlina Ghosh
	Educated vs. lay public view of neuroscience and science based brain health recommendations in Slovenia Matej Perovnik
	Physicians’ standpoints for the use of music-based interventions in Slovenian health care system Ana Kuder