World Congress on Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis - Montreal 2008
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TC 1 : Overview of MS for the non-clinician - JOINTLY SPONSORED BY EndMS
2 presentation(s)
MRI: terminology, diagnosis, uses in clinical trials by Tony Traboulsee   available!
 
Disability scales in MS (EDSS/ MSFC) by Paul Giacomini     available!
 
TC 2 : MS mimics: identification and management
4 presentation(s)
Introduction: criteria for mimic vs subtype of idiopathic... by Brian Weinshenker   available!
 
Approach to identifying MS mimics by Michael Hutchinson   available!
 
Neuromyelitis optica and NMO spectrum disorders by Brian Weinshenker   available!
 
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis by Brenda Banwell   available!
 
TC 3 : Immunology of MS - JOINTLY SPONSORED BY FOCIS
2 presentation(s)
Update on immunology by Andrew Lichtman   available!
 
Update on autoimmunity by Amit Bar-Or   available!
 
TC 4 : MS genetics and epidemiology
3 presentation(s)
Introduction by Jorge Oksenberg   available!
 
Genome-wide association studies in MS by Stephen Sawcer   available!
 
Beyond SNPs and transcripts: pathways and networks analys... by Sergio Baranzini   available!
 
TC 5 : Diagnosis of MS and monitoring treatment: conventional MRI (JOINTLY SPONSORED BY MAGNIMS)
4 presentation(s)
MRI protocol and indications by David Li   available!
 
Clinically isolated syndromes: update on MRI criteria by Alex Rovira   available!
 
Atypical MRI presentations by Franz Fazekas   available!
 
Predicting treatment response to interferon using MRI by Jack Simon   available!
 
TC 6 : Overview of MS for the non-clinician (continued) - JOINTLY SPONSORED BY EndMS
1 presentation(s)
Cognition in MS: focus on issues in trials by John Fisk   available!
 
TC 7 : MS treatments: conventional, emerging, rescue
3 presentation(s)
Conventional therapies by Hillel Panitch   available!
 
Emerging therapies by Timothy Vollmer   available!
 
Rescue therapies by Brian Weinshenker   available!
 
TC 8 : Pathology of MS: fundamentals and new ideas
3 presentation(s)
New information on inflammatory changes in MS by Hans Lassman   available!
 
Axonal and cortical changes in MS by Wolfgang Brück   available!
 
Remyelination in MS: mechanisms, assessment, and therapeu... by Samuel Ludwin   available!
 
TC 9 : MS and vision: the disease in microcosm
3 presentation(s)
Pupils and ocular motility by Elliot Frohman   available!
 
Visual acuity and OCT by Laura Balcer   to be announced!
 
OCT and axon degeneration by Peter Calabresi   available!
 
TC 10 : Understanding disability: advanced MRI techniques (JOINTLY SPONSORED BY MAGNIMS)
5 presentation(s)
Brain atrophy in MS: technique and interpretation by Hugo Vrenken   available!
 
Understanding disability: combined MTR, spectroscopy, and... by Claudia Leite   available!
 
Primary progressive MS: relevance of MRI by Jerry Wolinsky   available!
 
MR spectroscopy by Nicola De Stefano   available!
 
Functional plasticity: fMRI by Maria Assunta Rocca   available!
 
Plenary Session 1
1 presentation(s)
ACTRIMS/CMSC Donald Paty Memorial Lecture: The changing f... by Jock Murray   available!
 
Plenary Session 2
1 presentation(s)
ECTRIMS Lecture: "What can we learn from treating multipl... by Chris Polman   available!
 
Late Breaking News
4 presentation(s)
Results from a phase III, one-year, randomized, double-bl... by Giancarlo Comi   available!
 
Nordic trial of methylprednisolone as add-on therapy to i... by Per Soelberg Sorensen   available!
 
VLA-4 antisense: an oligonucleotide targeting VLA-4 mRNA ... by Volker Limmroth   available!
 
Causal link between human herpesvirus-6 and central infla... by Claude Genain   available!
 
Plenary Session 3
1 presentation(s)
LACTRIMS Leonor Gold Memorial Lecture: Past, present and ... by Nora Fernandez Liguori   available!