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| Wednesday 10th | Thursday 11th | Friday 12th | Saturday 13th |        | Poster Sessions |

  updated: 2007-10-01
Thursday, 11th Oct.
Main Topic IV: Syncope and Drug-Induced OH
  Chairs: S Raj (USA) & J-M Senard (France)
09:00 - 09:30 Dopaminergic Therapy and Dysautonomia in Parkinson's Disease
J-M Sénard
Toulouse, France
09:30 - 09:45 Levodopa ingestion and metabolism in patients with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease
F Adams, M Boschmann, E Lobsien, A Lipp, G Franke, MC Leisse, S Gottschalk, J Spranger, A Kupsch,
J Jordan
Berlin, Germany
09:45 - 10:00 Susceptibility to vasoactive drugs in syndromes with pre- and postganglionic sympathetic denervation
A Lipp, P Sandroni, J Gehrking, PA Low
Berlin, Germany
10:00 - 10:15 AAS Travel Fellowship Award
Eyewitness account of transient loss of consciousness: clue or pitfall?
RD Thijs, WA Wagenaar, W Wieling, JG van Dijk
Leiden, The Netherlands
10:15 - 10:30 Decrease in splanchnic resistance contributes to the mechanism of simple faint
I Taneja, JL Glover, MS Medow, JM Stewart
Valhalla, NY, USA
10:30 - 10:45 Supine splanchnic compression enhances cardiovascular recovery from orthostatic hypotension in familial dysautonomia patients
MJ Hilz, EC Ehmann, H Marthol, R Baltasdzhieva, S Moeller, FB Axelrod, D Berlin, T Haendl
New York, NY, USA & Erlangen, Germany
10:45 - 11:00 Orthostatic stress activates coagulation: a novel physiologic mechanism for hypercoagulation
M Masoud, G Sarig, B Brenner, G Jacob
Haifa, Israel
11:00 - 11:30 Novartis Lecture - Chair: F Skrabal (Austria)
Modern antihypertensive drugs - better control of arrhythmia?
A Podczeck-Schweighofer
Vienna, Austria
DAVID H. P. STREETEN SESSION
11:30 - 12:15 Streeten Lecture
POTS: Deconditioning, pseudodeconditioning, both or neither
M Joyner
Rochester, MN, USA
12:15 - 12:30 Streeten Travel Fellowship Award
Impact of spinal cord injury on emotion and autonomic function: an exploratory brain functional magnetic resonance imaging study
A Nicotra, HD Critchley, RJ Dolan, CJ Mathias
London, UK
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session II
EFAS Board Meeting (at Style Hotel)
   
Main Topic V: Autonomic Failure In Parkinsonism
  Chairs: C Mathias (UK) & P Low (USA)
14:00 - 14:30 Neuropathologic basis of autonomic manifestations of multiple system atrophy and Lewy body disorders
E Benarroch
Rochester, MN, USA
14:30 - 14:45 Autonomic indices as predictors of worse outcome in multiple system atrophy and Parkinson’s disease: a preliminary report
A Lipp, P Sandroni, JE Ahlskog, TL Gehrking, RD Fealey, J Gehrking, KK Nickander, D Sletten, W Singer, DM Maraganore, CM Shults, PA Low
Berlin, Germany
14:45 - 15:00 Is Parkinson disease with neurocirculatory failure associated with generalized dysautonomia? Results of neurochemical and neuropharmacologic testing
Y Sharabi, R Imrich, BA Eldadah, C Holmes, S Pechnik, DS Goldstein
Bethesda, MD, USA
15:00 - 15:30 Chelsea Lecture
A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study to determine the efficacy and safety of droxidopa in the treatment of orthostatic hypotension associated with multiple system atrophy or Parkinson’s disease

CJ Mathias, JM Senard, P Cortelli
London, UK
15:30 - 16:00 Novartis Lecture - Chair: W Grisold (Austria)
Nonmotor symptoms in Parkinson's disease
W Gerschlager
Vienna, Austria
16:00 - 16:30 Break
   
Main Topic VI: ANS and the Perception of Music
  Chairs: E Altenmüller (Germany) & T Chelimsky (USA)
16:30 - 16:55 Music or noise: different effects on the ANS
J-L Elghozi
Paris, France
16:55 - 17:15 The importance of silence in music: effects on the ANS
L Bernardi, C Porta, P Sleight
Pavia, Italy
17:15 - 17:30 Classical music inducing negative emotions decreases cardiovagal modulation in young healthy persons
MJ Hilz, S Wong, S Buechner, B Stemper, MHM Lee, T Gryc, J Nath,
L Habib-Romstöck, P Stadler
Erlangen, Germany
17:30 - 19:00 AAS Board Meeting (at Style Hotel)
   
20:00 Gala Dinner at the City Hall of Vienna
  Allergan Lecture with Music Performance
Emotional effects of music and its impact on the autonomic nervous system: the "chill effect"!
E Altenmüller
Hannover, Germany
   

| Wednesday 10th | Thursday 11th | Friday 12th | Saturday 13th |        | Poster Sessions |

updated: 2007-10-01

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