The 4th Advanced Residential Course in Neonatal Epilepsy will take place in Catania on 24-25 September 2024 and is addressed to neonatologists, child neurologists, neuropsychiatrists, and clinical neurophysiology technicians. Presidents of the corurse: Prof. Martino Ruggieri and Prof. Raffaele Falsaperla.

Our advanced course of Neonatal Epileptology and Neuropghysiology is addressed to neonatologists, child neurologists, neuropsychiatrists, and clinical neurophysiology technicians to provide the appropriate cultural tools on the management of infants with epileptic disorders.

The course is based on anatomical, neurophysiological, biochemical and pharmacological notions together with advanced neurophysiological topics. The “gold” standard to diagnose epileptic diseases remains the EEG that in Neonatal Intensive Care Units has become a very useful tool for the diagnostic and therapeutic management of neonatal seizures.

The course includes practical interactive clinical sections on genetic epileptic encephalopaties with the intent to underlie the clinical clues for diagnosis and on practical use of EEG.

In addition, we also plan interdisciplinary sessions with multidisciplinary physicians specialist on different aspects of infant epilepsy, in order to provide future scenarios of innovative therapies. We will focus on the specific features of neonatal seizures, addressing special sessions on the diagnosis of subtle seizures and their early recognition. Moreover, we will address our attention on the autonomic signs and symptoms related to neurologic diseases, as early symunderlaptoms of epilepsy, when clinical and EEG signs are not still evident.

Finally, there will be also a session on genetic diseases, which are considered an important challenge to reduce mortality and morbidity of neonates with epileptic diseases.

All these sessions will be combined with the presentation of the most recent literature data, in order to provide topics for further multicenter research networks.

We hope you will enjoy our program.

Prof. Raffaele Falsaperla

Prof. Martino Ruggieri