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 Gasa-Roqué
09:30 – 10:00 Neuropsychological assessment of glioma patients undergoing awake brain surgery in the left-dominant hemisphere: before and after surgery.
Dr. Joanna Sierpowska
10:00 – 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-Roqué / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr. Imma Rico

11:00 – 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-Roqué / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr. Imma Rico
12:30 – 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 Gasa-Roqué
14:45 – 15:00 Precision medicine: personalized electrical stimulation mapping tasks for tumor resection.
Dr. Xim Cerdá-Company
15:00 – 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-Roqué / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr. Imma Rico

16:30 – 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-Murciano
17:30 – 18:30

Workshop 4: Scoring and interpretation of cognitive and language performance before, during and after surgery.
Dr. Anna Gasa-Roqué / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr. Imma Rico

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