TIME

SESSION

PRESENTER

October 1, 2005

2:15PM

Welcome

Robert Friedland & Murat Emre

2:30

Insights into Basic and Clinical Neurobiology from Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases

Peter St. George-Hyslop  

3:15

Problems of Alzheimer's Disease in the Arab World

Ashraf Kurdi

3:45

ADI Address

Nori Graham

Clinical Features – Chair: Abdu Adem

4:00

Gender Differences in MiniMental State Examination in Arabic Cognitively Preserved Elderly 

Amin Abuful

4:20

Qualitative Assessment of the Writing Sentence Item in the MMSE

Iftah Biran

4:40

Break

5:00

Screening for Alzheimer’s Disease

Herman Buschke

5:20

Diagnosis and Management of Dementia: A Jordanian Experience

Marina Stoupa Hadidi

Genetics and Epidemiology – Chair: Joab Chapman

5:40

Gene-Environment Interactions in Alzheimer's Disease

Robert Friedland

6:00

Are there Sex Differences in Sociodemographic Background and Cognitive Functions Among Patients with Dementia - A Comparative Study among an Egyptian Sample

Abeer Eissa

6:20

Prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease among Centenarians in Lebanon  

Abdul Razzad Abyad

7:30  

Gala Dinner

October 2, 2005

Biology – Chair: Changiz Geula

8:30AM

Early and Selective Vulnerability of the Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease: Controversy and Resolution.

Changiz Geula 

8:50

The ERP Characteristics of Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Hakan Gurvit

9:10

Morphological and Morphometric Alterations of the Climbing Fibers of the Cerebellar Cortex in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Golgi and Electron Microscope Study

Stavros Baloyannis

9:30

Autoimmune Causes of Dementia: Antigenic and Behavioral Specificity

Joab Chapman 

9:50

Elderly Psychiatric Patients at Risk of Folic Acid Deficient: A Case Controlled Study

Yoram Barak

10:10

Plasma Total Homocysteine, Vitamin B12 and Folate Levels in Alzheimer's Disease and Healthy Aged Controls in Arabs Residing in Israel

Eli Mizrahi

10:30

Break

10:45

Hippocampal Muscarinic Receptor Changes in an Animal Model of Neurodegeneration and in Alzheimer’s Disease

Abdu Adem

Treatment and management – Chair: Murat Emre

11:05

Quality Of Life Of  Alzheimer's Disease Patients In Egypt

Doaa Hamed Moustafa Hewedi

11:25

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Patients with Vascular Dementia: Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis and Management

Yuri Aleeksenko

11:45

The Burden of Dementia in an Extended Family Social Network - a Historical Perspective

Nasser Loza

12:05PM

Nursing Home Care in Patients with Dementia - a National Survey in Cyprus

Chris Messis

12:25

Lunch Break

1:30

Quetiapine in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients with Behavioral and Psychotic Symptoms of Dementia – a Six Week Double Blind Placebo Controlled Study

Diana Paleacu

1:50

The Importance of Establishing Alzheimer's Associations in the Arab Countries

Diane Mansour

Ethics – Chair: Ashraf Kurdi

2:10

Ethical Issues  in End of Life Care in Geriatric Care: the Approach of the Three Monotheistic Religions: Judaism, Catholicism and Islam 

A. Mark Clarfield

2:30

Research for Peace in the Middle East.  The Need to Forget, not Remember

Abdelmoneim Ashour

2:50

What are the Ethical Dilemmas and Human Rights of Persons with Dementia?

Lilia Mendoza

3:10

Break

3:25

National Ethical and Legal Standards for People with Dementia in Israel

Ruth Goldberg

4:05

From   Research   to   Health Policy-Lessons Learnt from Goa

Amit Dias

Psychiatric features – Chair: Nasser Loza

4:25

Suicide in Depressed Geriatric Patients in Muslim Culture of Turkey

Isın Baral-Kulaksizoglu

4:45

Neuropsychiatric Disturbances in Parkinson's Disease

Rivka Inzelberg

5:05

Hallucinations and Delusions in Dementia

Engin Eker

5:25

Psychiatric Presentation of Alzheimer's Disease in Jordan

Jamal Al Khatib

5:45

The Clinical and Demographical Characteristics in Turkish Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Patients

Gorsev Yener

Conclusions 

6:05

Discussion

Robert Friedland and Murat Emre