Two-day seminar on Dementia

In order to create awareness about Alzheimer’s Disease and to strengthen the need for caring the patients, which is the only treatment as of now possible, the Trivandrum chapter of Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Society of India (ARDSI) and the Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology Section, Department of Neurology, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) are jointly organising a memory walk and two-day seminar at the Sree Chitra Institute of Medical Science on September 21 and 22. and ARDSI.

The important seminar sessions on the first day include, ‘Dementia - A Global and Public Perspective’ by Dr. Syam Krishnan, Department of Neurology, SCTIMST, ‘Cognitive Rehabilitation in Early Dementia by Dr.Nandakumaran Nair U, visiting professor, PMR section, SCTIMST. ‘Issues Connected with Caring and Care-giver Stress’ by Radhamony, ARDSI Trivandrum Chapter, ‘Management of Behaviour Problems in a Person with Dementia’ by Aley Alexander, psychologist, SCTIMST, ‘Improving Communication in a Person with Advanced Dementia’ by Priyanka Suresh, Speech Therapist, SCTIMST, ‘Epidemiology of the Degenerative Dementias’ by Dr. P S Mathuranath, NIMHANS, Bangalore, ‘General Approach to the Dementing Patient’ by Dr. Ramshekhar Menon, SCTIMST, ‘Bed-side Mental Status and Neuropsychological Evaluation’ by Dr M Madhusudhanan, PRS Hospital, ‘Memory Systems in Alzheimer’s Dementia & MCI’ by   Dr. Anand Kumar, AIMS, Kochi and ‘Executive Systems and Frontotemporal Dementias’ by Dr. Robert Mathew, SK Hospital.

On September 22 there will be four sessions starting with ‘Evaluation of the Primary Progressive Aphasias’ by Annamma George, former speech therapist, SCTIMST. It will be followed by ‘Motor Programming Disorders Associated with Dementia’ by Dr. Asha Kishore,  SCTIMST, ‘Parkinsonism-dementia Complexes’ by

Dr. Syam Krishnan, SCTIMST, ‘Vascular Cognitive Impairment’ by Dr. Sylaja P N, SCTIMST, ‘Young Onset and Rapidly Progressive Dementias’ by Dr. Ramshekhar Menon, ‘Perceptual Disorders in Dementia’ by

Dr. Thomas Iype, MCH, ‘Neuroimaging of Degenerative Dementias by Dr. C Kesavadas, SCT1MST, ‘Clinical Use of Biomarkers in Dementia - from MRI-PET to CSF and Genetics’ by Dr. P S Mathuranath, ‘Neuropsychiatric Issues in Dementia : Psychosis,

Agitation and Aggression’ by Dr. Anil Prabhakar, MCH, ‘Neuropsychiatric Issues in Dementia : Mood, Anxiety, Apathy and Odd Behaviours’ by Dr. Arun Nair, MCH and ‘Can Alzheimer’s Disease be Prevented? Prevention Trials and Possible Future Cures’ by Dr. Robert Mathew.

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