Highlights From AES2020, a Virtual American Epilepsy Society Experience
Year: 2021
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: Due to COVID-19 a live, in-person meeting was not possible for the American Epilepsy Society in 2020. An alternative, virtual event, the AES2020, was held instead. AES2020 was a great success with 4679 attendees from 70 countries. The educational content was outstanding and spanned the causes, treatments, and outcomes from epileptic encephalopathy to the iatrogenicity of epilepsy interventions to neurocognitive disabilities to the approach to neocortical epilepsies. New gene therapy approaches such as antisense oligonucleotide treatment for Dravet syndrome were introduced and neuromodulation devices were discussed. There were many other topics discussed in special interest groups and investigators' workshops. A highlight was having a Nobel prize winner speak about memory processing. Human intracranial electrophysiology contributes insights into memory processing and complements animal work. In a special COVID symposium, the impact of COVID on patients with epilepsy was reviewed. Telehealth has been expanded rapidly and may be well suited for some parts of epilepsy care. In summary, the epilepsy community was alive and engaged despite being limited to a virtual platform.
Institutions: Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center, Wake Forest University, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of California, Los Angeles, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Yale University, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Maryland Medical Center, University of South Alabama, Barrow Neurological Institute, Columbia University, Medical University of South Carolina, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Children's National
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3160280405