17th Congress of
Child Neurologists of Mediterranean

September 14-17, 2011, Piran, Slovenia

Author, Co-author(s) and Title


  • Hussein Hosny Abdel-Dayem (Egypt): The Impact of a Child's Disability on Psychological Well–Being in Siblings and Mothers of Children with Autism
  • Imen Abid, Emna Ellouz, Ines Hsairi, Ines Ayadi, Houda Ben Othmen, Meriem Meziou, Fatma Kamoun, Chahnez Charfi Triki (Tunisia): Epilepsy with Rolandic Features in Children: Factors Predicting Neuro-imaging Abnormalities
  • Marija Avsenik (Slovenia): Treatment of Children with Developmental Disorders at the Primary Level
  • Ines Ayadi, Ines Hsairi, Emna Ellouz, Imen Abid, Houda Ben Othmen, Meriem Meziou, Fatma Kamoun, Chahnez Charfi Triki (Tunisia): Neocortical Epileptic Syndromes with Onset in Infancy and Childhood
  • Anila Babameto-Laku, Valentina Tashko (Albania): Homozygous Alpha-Sarcoglycan Mutation in Two Albanian Siblings with Muscular Dystrophya
  • Aleš Belič (Slovenia): Brain-Computer Interfaces: Will Artificial Avatars Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Marianne Berenyi (Hungary): Symptomatic Epilepsy in Brain Damaged Neonates and Young Infants
  • Tina Bregant, Metka Derganc, David Neubauer (Slovenia): Quality of Life and Unwholesome Behaviours in Adolescents who Experienced Perinataly Mild and Moderate Hypoxic-Ischaemic Encephalopathy
  • Giuseppe Capovilla (Italy): Conundrum of EEG in Symptomatic Epilepsies
  • Francisco Carratalá-Marco (Spain): Genetics and Neurobehavioural Disorders
  • Francisco Carratalá-Marco (Spain): Spanish Neuropaediatric History
  • Francisco Carratalá-Marco (Spain): Cerebral Function Monitoring in the Neonatal Period and Neurological Outcome
  • Veronica Deysi Colombo, Elisabetta Salvatici, Giacomo Cagnoli (Italy): Evaluation of Executive Functions in a Population with Hyperphenylalaninemia
  • Dana Craiu (Romania): Brain Abnormalities Produced by Cooper Metabolism Disturbances
  • Ljerka Cvitanović Šojat, Monika Kukuruzović, Romana Gjergja Juraški, Maša Malenica, Kristina Kužnik, Tina Šojat, Maja Vugrinec (Croatia): Neurological Complications Associated with Influenza A/B and Parainfluenza III in Children
  • Athanasios Covanis (Greece): Conundrum of EEG in IGE Syndromes
  • Irina Datsenko (Ukraine): Organic Type Performing Personality Disorders on Brain Dysfunction Adolescents: Causes, Development Mechanisms, Clinics, Habilitation
  • Dirk M. Dhossche (USA): Catatonia is Hidden in Plain Sight Across Different Child and Adolescent Disorders
  • Petia Dimova (Bulgaria): Conundrum of EEG in Idiopathic (Benign) Focal Syndromes
  • Tatjana Dolenc Veličković (Slovenia): Signs of Abnormal Movements and Posture in Infancy
  • Bernard Echenne (France): History of Child Neurology in France
  • Bernard Echenne, Agathe Roubertie (France): Infantile and Early-onset Parkinsonism
  • Emna Ellouz, Norhene Fendri, Ines Hsairi, Fedia Jardak, Fatma Kamoun, Faiza Fakhfakh, Fatma Kamoun, Chahnez Charfi Triki (Tunisia): Clinical and Molecular Studies of Febrile Seizures in South Tunisia
  • Emna Ellouz, Ines Hsairi, Fedia Jardak, Houda Ben Othmen, Fatma Kamoun, Zeineb Mnif, Chahnez Charfi Triki (Tunisia): Horizontal Gaze Palsy and Progressive Scoliosis: a Case Report
  • Maria-José Fonseca, José Paulo Monteiro, Ana Duarte, Luisa Rocha, Lurdes Lourenço, Laura Lourenço (Portugal): Cortical Developmental Malformations: Imaging, Clinical Features and Folow-up
  • Ines Hsairi, Emna Ellouz, Neila Belghith, Houda Ben Othmen, Norhene Fendri, Fatma Kamoun, Hassen Kamoun, Faiza Fakhfakh, Chahnez Charfi Triki (Tunisia): Cytogenesis and Molecular Abnormalities of Chromosome X in Tunisian Children with Mental Retardation
  • Fedia Jardak, Emna Ellouz, Ines Hsairi, Ines Ayadi, Houda Ben Othmen, Meriem Meziou, Fatma Kamoun, Chahnez Charfi Triki (Tunisia): Study of Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome in 20 Patients - a Tunisian Experience
  • Maja Jekovec - Vrhovšek, Matevž Kržan, David Gosar, Ljubica Vrba, Svetlana Simič, David Neubauer (Slovenia): Medical and Psychosocial Issues in Children with Cerebral Palsy and Epilepsy in Slovenia
  • Juan José García-Peñas, Jana Domínguez-Carral (Spain): Efficacy and Safety of Add-on Lacosamide in Children with Refractory Epilepsy
  • Juan José García-Peñas, Jana Domínguez-Carral (Spain): Association of Autism Spectrum Disorders, Epilepsy, and Temporal Lobe Pathology
  • Juan José García-Peñas (Spain): Association of Autism, Epilepsy and Temporal Lobe Pathology
  • Juan-José García-Peñas, Jana Domínguez-Carral (Spain): Cutaneous and Systemic Manifestations of Phace Syndrome
  • Pierre Genton (France): Idiopathic Myoclonic Epilepsies
  • Hojka Gregorič Kumperščak (Slovenia): Schizofrenia - Like Phenotype with Early Neurological Signs in Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
  • Franco Guzzetta (Italy): Development of Children with Dravet Syndrome: an Overview
  • Jan Hadač (Czech Republic): Unilateral Thalamic Infarction in Full-term Neonates is Associated with the Risk of Later Development of the Electrical Status Epilepticus during Slow Sleep (ESES Syndrome)
  • Svetlana Hadjiu (Moldova): History of Child Neurology in Moldova
  • Shaul Harel (Israel): History of Child Neurology in Israel
  • Shaul Harel (Israel): Intrauterine Growth Retardation (IUGR): Resilience, Memory, Transmission and Long-Term Neuropsycholgical Outcome
  • Mohamed Hassan (Great Britain): Estimating the prevalance of Autism in Ethnic groups in London Borough of Tower Hamlets
  • Ahmed Raouf Ibrahim (Egypt): History of Child Neurology in Egypt
  • Ahmed Raouf Ibrahim (Egypt): Cerebral Palsy and Role of ARRC in Management - An Egyptian Experience
  • Michael Johnston (USA): Neuroprotection, Structural Neuroplasticity and Genetic Influences
  • Maja Jurin (Croatia): History of Child Neurology in Croatia
  • Maja Jurin (Croatia): Evidence Based Treatment of a First Seizure in Children
  • Maja Jurin, Hrvoje Hećimović, Tomislav Sajko (Croatia): Symptomatic Epilepsy with Complex Partial Seizures Caused by Hippocampal Mesial Sclerosis
  • Paraskevi Karagianni (Greece): Neurological Outcome in Preterm Small for Gestational Age Infants
  • Paraskevi Karagianni, Maria Kyriakidou, Elias Chatziioannidis, Christos Tsakalidis, Maria Lithoxopoulou, Nikolaos Nikolaidis (Greece): Evaluating 18 Months Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Twins = 34 Weeks of Gestation at Birth
  • Paraskevi Karagianni, Maria Kyriakidou, Sotiria Exadaktilou, Stergiana Douma, Evanthia Goutsiou, Nikolaos Nikolaidis (Greece): Grades I-II Intraventricular Haemorrhage in Low Birth Weight Infants: Effects on Cognitive and Motor Outcomes
  • Parvaneh Karimzadeh, Mohammad Reza Aalaei (Iran): Association of EEG Abnormality and Developmental Delay in Phenylketonuria
  • Volodymyr Kharytonov, Sergey Kharchuk, Yuriy Vinnik (Ukraine): Experience of vEEGmonitoring Use in the Diagnosing of Paroxysmal States
  • Migena Kika, Artur Rada, Fjorda Dragoti, Ralph Hassink (Albania, Switzerland): Experiences of Magnesium Therapy for the Treatment for Children with Autism in the National Center for Growth, Development and Rehabilitation of children in Tirana
  • Jernej Kovač (Slovenia): Some Regulating Genes in Autistic Spectrum Disorder
  • Maria Kyriakidou, Paraskevi Karagianni, Georgios Mitsiakos, Alice Gaga, Evanthia Goutsiou, Nikolaos Nikolaidis (Greece): Early Cognitive and Motor Assesment in Preterm Infants - Integration of Traditional Neurologic Examination and Bayley III Scales
  • Lieven Lagae (Belgium): The Relationship between Autism and Epilepsy
  • Lieven Lagae (Belgium): Which Epilepsy Conditions Respond to a Ketogenic Diet?
  • Marta Macedoni-Lukšič (Slovenia): Biochemical Markers in Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Marta Macedoni-Lukšič, Katja Stres Kaučič, Veronika Gomboc, Ana Štruc, Mirjam Pleterski (Slovenia): Applied Behaviour Analysis in Children with Low Functioning Autism
  • Muhammad Mahajnah (Israel): A Novel Mutation of the CLN8Gene: Is there a Mediterranean Phenotype?
  • Adel Mahmoud (Saudi Arabia): History behind the Ketogenic Diet
  • Adel Mahmoud (Saudi Arabia): Need of Routine Renal Ultra Sound during Topiramate Use
  • Nagwa Abdel Meguid, Cherine Fahim (Egypt): Do Autism and Fragile X Syndrome share Neurobiological Markers?
  • Brahim Tabarki Melaiki (Tunisia): Neonatal Vitamin-responsive Epileptic Encephalopathy
  • Anica Mikuš Kos (Slovenia): Helping Children with Developmental and Emotional Disorders in Areas Affected by Armed Conflicts and Poverty
  • Ranka Mirković (Montenegro): Child Neurology in Montenegro in the Past
  • Mahmoud Mohammadi (Iran): Febrile Seizures - Four Steps Algorithmic Clinical Approach
  • José Paulo Monteiro, Maria-Jose Fonseca (Portugal): Transient Idiopathic Dystonia of Infancy
  • Godfrey Muwonge (Uganda): Africa and European Intervention in Cerebral Palsy and the Affected Famillies
  • Rima Nabbout (France): Fever Induced Epileptic Encephalopathies in Children
  • Brian Neville (Great Britain): Pathogenic Sequences in the Cerebral Palsies
  • Sheila Nirenberg (USA): How Visual Scenes are Encoded in Retinal Ganglion Cells
  • Antigone Papavasiliou (Greece): Reaction of Parents of Children with Cerebral Palsy to the "CP Graph on Treatment Modalities for Gross Motor Function"
  • Sanja Pejić Roško, Vlatka Mejaški Bošnjak, Zrinka Ereš Hrvaćanin, Ivan Krajinović (Croatia): Prevalence of Cerebral Palsy on Country Level in Croatia
  • Tatyana Pomerantseva, Natalia Moghaeva, Natalia Fomenko, Irina Shuiskaya, Olga Vinnitskaya, Olga Skorobogatova, Tatyana Alipova (Ukraine): Epidemiology of Cerebral Palsy in the Lugansk Region
  • Tatyana Pomerantseva, Natalia Fomenko, Natalia Moghaeva, Irina Shuiskaya, Olga Vinnitskaya, Olga Skorobogatova, Tatyana Alipova (Ukraine): Analysis of the First Found Cerebral palsy Cases in the Lugansk Region
  • Zvonka Rener-Primec, Natalija Krainc, Mirjana Perković Benedik, Matevž Kržan (Slovenia): Efficacy and Tolerability of Vagal Nerve Stimulation in Children and Adolescents with Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy in Slovenia
  • Raili Riikonen, Jarmo Jääskeläinen (Finland): Infantile Spasms - Epileptic EncephalopathyIgor
  • Mihael Ravnik, Natalija Krajnc, Vali Glavič Tretnjak, Matevž Kržan, David Gosar, Neža Župančič, Svetlana Simić (Slovenia): Collaborative Cross Border Management of Drug Resistant Paediatric Epilepsy – Example of a Small Mediterranean Country
  • Igor Mihael Ravnik, Vlado Bricelj (Slovenia): Multiple Sudden Unexpected Deaths in a Family with Suspected Neurocardiac Disorder
  • Melissa Rosa Rizzotto, Anna Carla Turconi, Laura Visonà Dalla Pozza, Emanuela Pagliano, Pasquale Mandalari, Odoardo Picciolini, Ermellina Fedrizzi,
    Paola Facchin, Study Group GIPCI
    (Italy): Results of a Multisite Clinical Trial on Unimanual vs Bimanual Intensive Training in Children with Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy: the Role of Parents
  • Robert Rust (USA): Autism: Current Controversy and Emerging Science
  • Masaya Segawa (Japan): Movement Disorders Characteristics and Rationale of their Occurrence in the Developing Brain
  • Taisiya Serganova, Ludmila Churkina (Russia): Hydrorehabilitation as a Component of Complex Regenerative Treatment of Children with Perinatal Cerebral Pathology
  • Elena Shestova (Ukraine): Malformations of Cortical Development at “Routine” Methods MR (T1-, T2- Weighted Images)
  • Pratibha Singhi (India): Epilepsy in Children with Cerebral Palsy
  • Fatma Müjgan Sonmez, Joe Gleeson, Figen Celep, Sibel Kul (Turkey, USA): VLDLR Associated Pontocerebellar Hypoplasia and Dysmorphic Features in three Turkish Patients
  • Hasan Tekgul (Turkey): Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Paediatric Neurology
  • Hasan Tekgul (Turkey): Status Epilepticus - Treatment Protocols and Outcome
  • Haluk Topaloglu (Turkey): Approach to Floppy Infant
  • Meral Topçu (Turkey): Clinical and Genetics of Dravet Syndrome
  • Meral Topçu (Turkey): Role of  Functional Magnetic Resonance in Child Neurology
  • Chahnez Charfi Triki (Tunisia): Child Neurology in Maghreb Countries
  • Chahnez Charfi Triki (Tunisia): Contribution of Ophthalmological Examination in the Diagnosis of Encephalopathy
  • Milivoj Veličković Perat (Slovenia): History of Child Neurology in Slovenia
  • Lee Elizabeth Wachtel (USA): Catatonia in Autism - Aetiology, Incidence and Treatment
  • Lee Elizabeth Wachtel (USA): Electroconvulsive Therapy of Catatonia in Autism
  • Kalbiye Yalaz (Turkey): Paediatric Neurology Practice in Turkey Covering 1900-1960’s
  • Stanislav Yevtushenko, Anna Morozova, Tatiana Morozova, Marina Moskalenko (Ukraine): Multifocal Evoked Potentials - Marker of Cerebral Phenotype among the Paediatric Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
  • Deniz Yuksel, Baris Diren, Banu Anlar (Turkey): Brain Imaging Findings in Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis (SSPE)
  • Sotirios Youroukos (Greece): History of Child Neurology in Greece
  • Nathanel Zelnik (Israel): Characteristics of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children with Epilepsy
  • Valery Zykov, Denis Safronov (Russia): Relevance of VEPs in Young Children with Epilepsy