NEW WORKSHOP! Neuropsychological assistance hands-on 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 22nd - Location: Room 209 08:30 – 09:00 Delivery of documentation 09:00 – 09:30 Introduction: Intraoperative mapping and monitoring of language and cognition during awake surgery from a neuropsychological standpoint.
Dr. Anna Gasa09:30 – 10:00 Neuropsychological assessment of glioma patients undergoing awake brain surgery in the left-dominant hemisphere: before and after surgery.
Dr. Joanna Sierpowska10:00 – 11:00 Workshop 1: Cognitive and language assessment before surgery. Neuropsychological battery of tests for patients with tumors located in the perisylvian areas in the left-dominant hemisphere.
Dr. Anna Gasa / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr. Imma Rico11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE 11:30 – 12:30 Workshop 2: Cognitive and language assessment before surgery. Neuropsychological battery of tests for patients with tumors located in the supplementary motor area in the left-dominant hemisphere.
Dr. Anna Gasa / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr. Imma Rico12:30 – 13:00 Discussion
13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH 14:30 – 14:45 Assessment of language and cognition during the surgery: methodological aspects and tasks to use intraoperatively.
Dr. Anna Gasa14:45 – 15:00 Precision medicine: personalized electrical stimulation mapping tasks for tumor resection.
Dr. Xim Cerdá-Company15:00 – 16:30 Workshop 3: Cortical and subcortical mapping and intraoperative monitoring by clinical cases - hands-on intraoperative evaluation and scoring based on live surgeries (video material).
Dr. Anna Gasa / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr. Imma Rico16:30 – 17:00 COFFEE 17:00 – 17:30 Crash course in psychometrics:
understanding what the results mean for each person given their profile (age and education).
Dr. Laura Maldonado-Murciano17:30 – 18:30 Workshop 4: Scoring and interpretation of cognitive and language performance before, during and after surgery.
Dr. Anna Gasa / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr. Imma RicoDownload here the PROGRAM
