NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE WORKSHOP
COURSE AIMED AT: Neuropsychologists, Psychologists, Speech Therapists, Therapists, Nurses, Neurosurgeons, and all professionals involved in the peri- and intra-operative (neuro)psychological assistance WEDNESDAY | November 18th - Location: Dissection room 08:30 – 08:45 Delivery of documentation 08:45 – 09:00 Course presentation 09:00 – 09:30 Theoretical framework behind awake brain surgery: from historical to contemporary models.
Anna Gasa-Roqué / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska09:30 – 09:45 How to define a candidate for an awake brain surgery? Rapid fire Q & A session with Dr. Andreu Gabarrós (Chief of the Neurosurgery Department of the University Hospital of Bellvitge), about the dialogue between neurosurgeons and neuropsychologists in presurgery preparation.
Moderators: Anna Gasa-Roqué / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska09:45 – 10:05 Neuropsychological assessment of glioma patients undergoing awake brain surgery in the left-dominant hemisphere: before and after surgery.
Anna Gasa-Roqué10:05 – 10:30 From design to implementation: validating and adapting intraoperative tasks through "de novo" development and linguistic tailing to participant profiles.
Deva Álvarez / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska10:30 – 10:45 Crash course in psychometrics: understanding what the results mean for each person given their profile.
Anna Gasa-Roqué / Dr. Laura Maldonado-Murciano10:45 – 11:00 Discussion panel: Design, assessment, and interpretation of neuropsychological domains before, during, and after the surgery.
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE 11:30 – 11:45 Precision medicine: personalized electrical stimulation mapping tasks for tumor resection.
Victor Cepero / Dr. Xim Cerdà-Company11:45 – 12:40 Workshop 1. Cognitive and language assessment before and after surgery. Neuropsychological battery of tests, scoring and interpretation for patients with tumors located in the left-dominant hemisphere.
Instructors: Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Anna Gasa-Roqué12:40 – 13:00 Workshop 1. wrap-up and discussion.
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH 14:30 – 16:15 Workshop 2 Cortical and white matter mapping and intraoperative monitoring by clinical cases - hands-on intraoperative evaluation and scoring based on live surgeries (video material).
Instructors: Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Anna Gasa-Roqué16:15 – 16:30 Workshop 2 wrap-up and discussion. 16:30 – 17:00 COFFEE 17:00 – 18:00 Keynote Speaker: Mapping right hemisphere functions with direct electrostimulation: current practice and future directions.
Dr. Guillaume Herbet
18:00 – 18:30 Discussion and closing remarks DINNER (Only for the full course participants) Download here the PROGRAM
