BUDAPEST HUNGARY 28th International Epilepsy Congress

GENERAL SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM
Presidential Symposium
909 - 2009: a century of achievements
Lund, S (Sweden) & Wolf, P (Denmark) Chair
History medical and social
Reynolds, EH (UK)
Stigma: has perception of epilepsy changed at all?
Acevedo, C (Chile)
The role of genetic discoveries
Avanzini, G (Italy)
Paths to seizure freedom: the achievements in
epilepsy treatment
Andermann, F (Canada)
Political influence and impact - has epilepsy legislation
been successful?
Lee, P (UK)
The future hopes and aspirations perspective:
where are we going?
Wolf, P (Denmark)
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28 th International Epilepsy Congress
Many developments and many changes have occurred about epilepsy in the 100
years of the ILAE’s existence, and the League has contributed to many of them.
Numerous examples can be found in the programme of our Centenary Congress. In
this symposium we wish to highlight and review some of the developments which
we consider particularly important, both in the medical and the social field. At the
end we will try to make some guesses into where epileptology will move in the
coming years.
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