| Preface |
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| Part I Opening Lecture |
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Mapping the human nervous system in health and disease |
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| Part I Special Lectures |
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Principles and pitfalls of nerve conduction studies |
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Lecture in honour of Prof. Emeritus Fritz Buchthal. |
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Acute and chronic demyelinating polyneuropathy: an overview |
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| Part II Didactic Lectures |
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Utility of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) in spinal cord lesions and functional surgery of pain and spasticity |
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Multimodal approaches in the evaluation of epilepsy patients for surgery |
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Movement-related brain electrical activity |
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New trends in magnetoencephalography |
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Cognitive potentials and corticocortical connections in humans |
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85 | (10) |
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| Part III Plenary Sessions |
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What makes a brain oscillation abnormal? |
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95 | (8) |
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Electrophysiological and morphological changes in the peripheral nervous system with ageing |
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103 | (6) |
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Clinical applications of cyclic alternating pattern |
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109 | (4) |
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Power spectral sleep EEG findings in patients with obstructive sleep apnea and upper airway resistance syndromes |
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113 | (8) |
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Survey of inherited peripheral nerve diseases |
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121 | (8) |
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Interconnections between cortical areas revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation |
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129 | (4) |
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Isolation of late event-related components to checkerboard stimulation |
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Continuous EEG monitoring in the intensive care unit |
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150 | (6) |
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Percutaneous stimulation of mechanoreceptors and peripheral neural transmission in normal subjects and patients with hereditary ataxias |
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156 | (11) |
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Non-invasive pre-surgical evaluation with EEG/MEG source analysis |
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167 | (8) |
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Excitability of the motor cortex in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
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175 | (8) |
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Introducing priors in the EEG/MEG inverse problem |
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183 | (7) |
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Spinal mechanisms of spasticity |
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190 | (5) |
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Genotype--phenotype correlation in spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) |
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195 | (7) |
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Cortical visual processing |
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202 | (8) |
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Neuromagnetic recordings and magnetic brain stimulation in the evaluation of sensorimotor hand area interhemispheric differences: normative, experimental and patients' data |
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210 | (11) |
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Does the vestibulo-ocular reflex use the same pathways for functions in roll and pitch planes? |
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221 | (5) |
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Short and middle latency vestibular evoked potentials to angular and linear acceleration |
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226 | (9) |
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Evoked potentials in sound localization: timing of activity along the auditory pathway |
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235 | (8) |
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EEG band centroid modifications in HIV patients |
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243 | (7) |
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Genetic and antibody-mediated channelopathies at the neuromuscular junction |
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250 | (9) |
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Mechanisms involved in the propagation of interictal epileptiform discharges in partial epilepsy |
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259 | (22) |
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| Part IV Workshops and Advanced Courses |
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P300 and Alzheimer's disease: Oddball task difficulty and modality effects |
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281 | (7) |
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Value and limits of cardiovascular autonomic function tests |
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288 | (5) |
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Non-invasive assessment of motor unit properties with linear electrode arrays |
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293 | (8) |
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Electroencephalogram in metabolic encephalopathies |
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301 | (10) |
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Evoked potentials to painful laser stimulation |
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311 | (17) |
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Value and limits of expert systems in clinical neurophysiology: an integrated `Avicennian' approach |
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328 | (7) |
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Congenital muscular dystrophies. A short review of the recent progresses |
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335 | (6) |
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Model-based delta plots beat power-based ones |
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341 | (8) |
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Can evoked potentials be useful in monitoring multiple sclerosis evolution? |
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349 | (9) |
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Spinal reflex pathways transcend the scheme of an auxiliary or independent system |
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358 | (6) |
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Characteristics of SEP from subthalamic nucleus in human |
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364 | (9) |
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Spinal reflex studies enable to analyze supraspinal dysfunctions |
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373 | (4) |
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Neurophysiological aspects of diagnosis in neuromuscular transmission defects -- an update |
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377 | (9) |
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Movement-related potentials and magnetic fields: new evidence for SMA activation leading MI activation prior to voluntary movement |
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386 | (16) |
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Auditory information processing in comatose patients: EPs to synthesised `musical' tones |
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402 | (6) |
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High-rate transcranial magnetic stimulation: influence on short-term memory, heart rate and blood pressure changes |
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408 | (5) |
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413 | (6) |
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Diagnostic relevance of anti-neural antibodies in dysimmune neuropathies |
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419 | (9) |
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MEG spontaneous activity in patients with memory disorders |
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428 | (9) |
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| Part V Satellite Symposia |
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Inhibitory function in chronic focal epileptogenesis |
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437 | (6) |
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Do GABAergic circuitries play a critical role in the regulation of seizure-induced neuronal damage and synaptic reorganization in the rat hippocampus? |
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443 | (7) |
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Antiepileptic drugs potentiating GABA |
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450 | (8) |
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Cognitive effects of GABAergic antiepileptic drugs |
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458 | (7) |
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Cognitive Impairment in Multiple Sclerosis |
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Cognitive impairment in multiple sclerosis: a longitudinal study |
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465 | (4) |
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Event-related potentials in the assessment of cognitive function in multiple sclerosis |
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469 | (11) |
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Electrophysiological investigations in multiple sclerosis dementia |
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480 | (6) |
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Immunoglobulin Treatment of Peripheral Nervous System Disorders |
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Mechanisms of action of intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) in autoimmune and neuromuscular diseases |
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486 | (7) |
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Chronic inflammatory demyelination polyneuropathy (CIDP) |
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493 | (6) |
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IVIg in polymyositis and myasthenia gravis |
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499 | (7) |
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High-dose intravenous immunoglobulins in multifocal motor neuropathy |
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506 | (8) |
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Safety and tolerability of intravenous immunoglobulins |
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514 | (7) |
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Monitoring of Natural History and Therapeutic Interventions in Diabetic Neuropathy |
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Monitoring the natural history and results of therapeutic intervention in diabetic neuropathy: clinical measures |
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521 | (4) |
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Diabetic neuropathy-the utility of nerve biopsy |
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525 | (9) |
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Nerve conduction study in diabetic polyneuropathy: multicenter analysis on intertrial variability |
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534 | (7) |
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Autonomic tests in diabetic neuropathy |
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The Italian multicentre study on the prevalence of distal symmetric polyneuropathy: correlation between clinical variables and nerve conduction parameters |
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546 | (7) |
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Utility of the skin biopsy method |
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Measures of Disease Activity in Multiple Sclerosis |
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Clinical measures of disease activity in multiple sclerosis |
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560 | (5) |
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Non-conventional MR techniques in monitoring MS activity and evolution |
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565 | (5) |
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Immunological surrogate markers of disease activity in multiple sclerosis |
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570 | (14) |
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Neurophysiological markers of relapse, remission and long-term recovery processes in MS |
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Updates in Brain Functional Imaging |
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Monitoring temporal aspects of cortical information processing |
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591 | (7) |
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Neural bases of time estimation: a PET and ERP study |
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598 | (7) |
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| Subject Index |
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