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Program
Basic and Clinical Aspects of Vertigo and Dizziness
22nd - 25th June 2008
Kloster Seeon
Sunday, 22nd June 2008
Arrival of the participants (Shuttle service from MUC Airport)
2.00 pm Welcome Reception and Introduction
Chairpersons: David Zee & Daniele Nuti
2.30 pm Paul Smith: Balance before reason in rats and humans
2.45 pm Cynthia Darlington: Anxiety-related behaviour and biogenic amine pathways in the rat following bilateral vestibular lesions
3.00 pm Ian Curthoys: The configuration and attachment of the utricular and saccular membranes to the temporal bone. New
evidence from micro-CT studies of the labyrinth.
3.15 pm Michael Halmagyi: Head impulse test in bilateral vestibular loss due to systemic gentamicin toxicity
3.30 pm Kikuro Fukushima: Interaction of vestibular and neck velocity signals in pursuit neurons of the simian frontal eye
fields
3.45 pm Ji Soo Kim: Head shaking nystagmus in central vestibulopathies
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm Break
Chairpersons: Robert Daroff & Christopher Kennard
4.30 pm Thomas Haslwanter: Applying knowledge - Technical challenges in bringing scientific advances to dizzy patients
4.45 pm Daniele Nuti: Lateral canal BPPV revisited
5.00 pm Stefano Ramat: The influence of the neural integrator on the estimate of the rVOR time constants: a modeling study
5.15 pm Thomas Lempert: Vestibular migraine
5.30 pm Erich Schneider: The combination of galvanic vestibular stimulation with roll rotation induces the perception of linear
motion
5.45 pm Andreas Straube: Temporary lesions of the caudal deep cerebellar nucleus in non-human primates: Gain, offset and ocular
alignment
6.00 pm Michael Strupp: The intensity of downbeat nystagmus during daytime, and the underlying mechanism of this modulation
6.15 pm Diethilde Theil: Presence of HSV-1 immediate early genes and clonally expanded
T-cells with a memory effector phenotype in human trigeminal ganglia
6.30 pm Marianne Dieterich: Neural correlates of hemispheric dominance and ipsilaterality within the vestibular system
6.45 pm Karl-Friedrich Hamann: Disturbances of spatial memory in vestibular lesions
7.00 pm Heiner Deubel: Visual memory supports perceptual stability across eye movements
7.15 pm End of the lectures
7.45 pm Dinner
Monday, 23rd June 2008
7.00 am Breakfast
7.50 am Beginning of the session
Chairpersons: Ji Soo Kim & Adolfo Bronstein
8.00 am Thomas Brandt: Model of visuo-spatial hemineglect
8.15 am Ulrich Büttner: Vestibular processing in cerebellar structures
8.30 am Jean Büttner-Ennever: Parallel pathways between the vestibular and oculomotor nuclei
8.45 am Klaus Jahn: Supraspinal control of locomotion: parahippocampal activity in healthy and sensory deprived subjects
9.00 am Thomas Eggert: Non-temporal mechanisms of predictive smooth pursuit
9.15 am Stefan Glasauer: Investigating human path integration
9.30 am Anja Horn-Bochtler: A reappraisal of the Edinger-Westphal nucleus
9.45 am Laurence Young: Adapting to Coriolis-cross-coupled stimulation for artificial gravity
10.00 am – 10.30 am Break
Chairpersons: Dora Angelaki & Wim Bles
10.30 am Christoph Helmchen: How does the brain respond to chronic peripheral vestibular lesions?
10.45 am Detlef Kömpf: Virtual model of homonymous hemianopia
11.00 am Johannes Dichgans: Molecular mechanisms of aging
11.15 am Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer: Eye-movements during natural exploration
11.30 am Thomas Mergner: Posture control in vestibular loss patients
11.45 am Klaus-Peter Hoffmann: Comparative neurobiology of the optokinetic system in vertebrates
12.00 pm Mikael Karlberg: Phobic postural vertigo – easy to diagnose and treat
12.15 pm Måns Magnusson: Vestibular prehab
12.30 pm End of the lectures
12.30 pm - 1.20 pm Lunch
1.30 pm Photo session in front of the church
2.00 pm - 11,59 pm Social events
2.15 pm Meeting at the church for departure by bus from Kloster Seeon to Seebruck
2.30 pm Bus from Kloster Seeon to Seebruck
3..0 pm - 5.30 pm Boat trip around Lake Chiemsee
5.30 pm - 6.00 pm Bus from Seebruck to Kloster Seeon
6.00 pm - 7.00 pm Leisure time
7.00 pm - 11.59 pm Official Dinner and Social Program (location and dress code depend on the weather)
Tuesday, 24th June 2008
7.00 am Breakfast
7.50 am Beginning of the session
Chairpersons:Kikuro Fukushima & James Sharpe
8.00 am Hans Straka: Vestibulo-ocular signal transformation in separate frequency-tuned channels
8.15 am Charles Pierrot-Deseilligny: Role of gravity in vertical vestibular eye movements
8.30 am Michel Lacour: Vestibular rehabilitation by the light of the recent advances on vestibular compensation mechanism
8.45 am Alain Berthoz: Anatomical anomalies of the vestibular organs and their consequences for cognitive, psychiatric and
sensorimotor function
9.00 am Pierre-Paul Vidal: Critical vestibular period, maturation of the central vestibular neurons and navigation
9.15 am Volker Dietz: From cat to man: Neurobiology of vertebrate locomotion
9.30 am Dominik Straumann: High-acceleration vestibulo-ocular reflex in patients with polyneuropathy
9.45 am John Allum: Vestibular and proprioceptive contributions to human balance corrections: aiding these with prosthetic
feedback
10.00 am Herman Kingma: New insight in complaints associated with vestibular deficits
10.15 am Wim Bles: Respiratory impact on motion sickness induced by linear motion
10.30 am – 11.00 am Break
Chairpersons: Bernhard Cohen & Volker Dietz
11.00 am Adolfo Bronstein: What the broken escalator phenomenon teaches us about balance
11.15 am Michael Gresty: Impact of disorientation and vertigo on cognitive processes
11.30 am Christopher Kennard: Lesions, functional imaging and voluntary eye movement control
11.45 am Kathleen Cullen: How Actions Alter Sensory Processing: reafference in the vestibular system
12.00 pm James Sharpe: The Initial and Sinusoidal Vestibulo-ocular Reflex after Focal Brainstem Lesions
12.15 pm Poster Session
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm Lunch
Chairpersons: Michael Halmagyi & Dominik Straumann
2.00 pm Sergei Yakushin: The cervico-ocular reflex in normal and canal-plugged animals
2.15 pm Bernard Cohen: Effect of canal plugging on gait and head movements in monkeys during quadrupedal locomotion
2.30 pm Gary Paige: Perception of self-motion: What is vestibular and what is not
2.45 pm Lloyd Minor: Interactions of basic research and clinical investigation in the vestibular system
3.00 pm David Zee: Neural cross-axis saccade adaptation in humans: a window to multiple times scales of motor learning
3.15 pm Carey Balaban: Neurological linkage models for the co-morbidity of balance disorders, migraine and anxiety disorders
3.30 pm John Leigh: The human vertical translation vestibulo-ocular reflex (tVOR): normal and abnormal responses
3.45 pm Robert B. Daroff: Migrainous vertigo/Vertiginous migraine: 2008
4.00 pm – 4.30 pm Break
Chairpersons: John Leigh & Alain Berthoz
4.30 pm Michael Mustari: Signal processing and distribution in cortical-pontine pathways for smooth pursuit eye movements
4.45 pm Dora Angelaki: Vestibular and visual responses in parietal and insular cortex and thalamus
5.00 pm Fay Horak: Postural compensation for vestibular loss
5.15 pm F. Owen Black: Influence of electrotactile tongue feedback on control of upright stance during rotational and/or
translational support surface sway-referencing during galvanic vestibular stimulation
5.30 pm Joanna Jen: Familial Episodic Ataxia: a model for migrainous vertigo
5.45 pm Open discussion and round Table
7.00 pm End of the lectures and poster presentation
7.15 pm Dinner
Wednesday, 25th June 2008
6.00 am - 10.00 am Breakfast
9.00 am End of the meeting
Departure of the participants (Shuttle service to MUC Airport)
Presentation of the posters
Poster will be displayed near the lecture hall for the duration of the meeting. There will be time to discuss the posters with the presenters during the breaks and the two poster presentation sessions.