20. Annual Meeting 2020 of the EURLSSG

 

ATTENTION:  VIRTUAL  MEETING !!!

This year ONLY FOR MEMBERS OF THE EURLSSG, accessible for free !!

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Friday, December 11th, 2020, time: 4 pm - 6:30 pm

Saturday, December 12th, 2020, time: 10 am - 12:30 am

 

Downloads:

  • Agenda Friday, 13th December (download)
  • Agenda Saturday, 14th December (download)

 

 

Friday-Agenda:

16:00  Welcome and Introduction (Rosalia Silvestri, EURLSSG president, Italy)

Animal Models
Chairperson: Alessandro Silvani, Italy

16:05  Guidelines for face validity of RLS animal models (Mauro Manconi, Switzerland)

16:15  Guidelines for construct validity of RLS animal models (Aaro Salminen, Germany)

16:25  A mouse model of RLS with aberrant cortical rhythms (Rhiannan Williams, Germany)

16:35  Questions & Answers (questions collected during the talks by chat)

 

Leg movements
Chairperson: Ambra Stefani, Austria

16:41  Leg movements during sleep in RLS: beyond perodicity (Alessandro Silvani, Italy)

16:51  Pharmacological responsiveness of periodic limb movement (Silvia Riccardi, Switzerland)

17:01  Questions & Answers (questions collected during the talks by chat)

 

17:05  -- Coffe break --

 

Genetic
Chairperson: Juliane Winkelmann, Germany

17:15  Taking RLS genom-wirde association studies to the next level - results from a meta-analysis including more than 100,000 cases (Barbara Schormair, Germany)

17:25  Questions & Answers (questions collected during the talks by chat)

 

RLS in special conditions/situations
Chairperson: Georgios Sakkas, Greece

17:27  RLS and PLM in pregnancy: The Life-ON Project (Mauro Manconi, Switzerland)

17:37  RLS and PLM in Multiple Sclerosis (David Sparasci, Switzerland)

17:47  Restless Legs Syndrome, sleep quality and associated factors in a cohort of peritoneal dialysis patients (Thomas Mitterling, Austria)

17:57  RLS during COVID-19 lockdown: a survey (Samson Khachatryan, Armenia)

18:07  Questions & Answers (questions collected during the talks by chat)

 

18:15  Final remarks (Rosalia Silvestri, EURLSSG president, Italy)

 

 

 

Saturday-Agenda "Year in Review":

10:00  Welcome and Introduction (Rosalia Silvestri, EURLSSG president, Italy)

Chairperson: Yves Dauvilliers, France

10:05  Animal models (Aaro Salminen, Germany)

10:17  Genetic (Speaker from the Institute of Neurogenomics, Director Prof. Juliane Winkelmann, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany)

10:29  Gender aspects (Federica Provini, Italy)

10:41  Children (Rosalia Silvestri, Italy)

10:53  Questions & Answers (questions collected during the talks by chat) 

 

11:05  -- Coffe break --

 

Chairperson: Federica Provini, Italy

11:15  RLS and iron homeostasis (Yves Dauvilliers, France)

11:27  Neuroradiology (Ambra Stefani, Austria)

11:39  RLS and cardiovascular risk (Roselyne Rjisman, The Netherlands)

11:51  EU VoT RLS study (Giorgos Sakkas, Greece)

12:03  Questions & Answers (questions collected during the talks by chat) 

 

12:15  Final remarks and conclusion (Rosalia Silvestri, EURLSSG president, Italy)