From Eye to Mind *** International Symposium 2008

Conference Programme

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Friday 24.10.2008 Low Vision Clinic. Please, find details about the location under "information" [>>]
17:00 – 18:00 Registration
18:00 Welcome Reception and Visit to Laboratory

Saturday 25.10.08 Conference Centre. Please, find details about the location under "information" [>>]

8:00 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 11:00 Session I
Welcome and Introduction: Eberhart Zrenner and Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski (Tübingen, D)
Retina: Functional Aspects of Maculopathies
Chairs: Karl Ulrich Bartz-Schmidt (Tübingen, D) and Ger van Rens (Amsterdam, NL)
1. Gary Rubin (London, UK)
Eye movements in AMD
2. Klaus Rohrschneider (Heidelberg, D)
SLO versus MP1 microperimetry in macular disease
3. Dorothea Besch (Tübingen, D)
Sensory aspects of macular translocation
4. Nhung Nguyen (Tübingen, D)
Improvement of reading speed by low vision aids in AMD
5. Ron Schuchard (Atlanta, USA)
Training of preferred retinal locus or of eccentric viewing: is there a difference?

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:15 Session II
Optic Nerve Diseases with Visual Impairment
Chairs: William F. Hoyt (San Francisco, USA) and Guntram Kommerell (Freiburg, D)
1. Kathleen Digre (Salt Lake City, USA)
Controversies in pseudotumor cerebri
2. Natascha Serova (Moscow, RU)
Papilledema in patients with brain tumor, visual disturbances – a clinical and epidemiological study
3. Helmut Wilhelm (Tübingen, D)
Optic nerve glioma – expectations and considerations
4. Klara Landau (Zürich, CH)
Optic nerve meningioma – associations and implications
5. Gordon Plant (London, UK)
Optic neuritis update

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 – 15:05 Session III
Cortical Adaptation to Vision Loss I
Chair: Christopher Kennard (London, UK)
1. Hans-Peter Thier (Tübingen, D)
Functional architecture of attention
2. Manfred Mackeben (San Francisco, USA)
Making the best of remaining vision – the role of focal attention

15:05 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:15 Session IV
Cortical Adaptation to Vision Loss II
Chairs: François Vital-Durand (Lyon, F) and Ingeborg Krägeloh-Mann (Tübingen, D)
1. Christoph Braun (Trento, I)
Cortical reorganisation after damage of the central nervous system
2. Antony B. Morland (York, UK)
Absence of relevant cortical reorganisation in patients with macular degeneration
3. Avinoam Safran (Geneva, CH)
Cortical plasticity following focal visual field alteration: Scotoma filling-in, visual hallucinations, and spatial distortion in spared visual areas
4. Ulrich Schiefer (Tübingen, D)
Visual agnosia – a challenge for ophthalmologists
5. Lea Hyvärinen (Helsinki, FI)
Assessment of visual processing disorders in children with other disabilities

Closing Remarks
Susanne Trauzettel-Klosinski (Tübingen, D)

19:00 Dinner at Bebenhausen Castle. Please, find details about the location under "information" [>>]
Special lecture: Neuro-Ophthalmology in Art, Pinar Aydin (Ankara, TR)

Musical performance by the MaMiGo-Singers


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