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

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

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

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

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 

2:30

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

Abdelmoneim Ashour

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

Lilia Mendoza

3:25

National Ethical and Legal Standards for People with Dementia in Israel

Ruth Goldberg

From   Research   to   Health Policy-Lessons Learnt from Goa

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

Conclusions 

6:05

Discussion

Robert Friedland and Murat Emre