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March 20 - Sunrise Seminars SS1/1 Spreading Depolarization
David O Okonkwo - Takeshi Maeda - Plenary room 1

07:45 - 08:05 SS1.1 (3) Spreading depolarization in acute neuronal injury

Jens P Dreier

Center for Stroke Research, Department of Experimental Neurology and Neurology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Germany

08:05 - 08:25 SS1.2 Arguments why spreading depolarization will lead us nowhere

Andreas Unterberg

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany

08:25 - 08:45 SS1.3 (25) Spreading depolarizations: monitoring a neuronal pathophysiologic process in traumatic brain injury

Jed A Hartings

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinatti, OH, USA

08:45 - 08:55 Discussion

March 20 - Sunrise seminars SS1/2 Communication with the Comatose Brain
Emmanuel A Stamatakis - Reggie V Edgerton - Plenary room 2

07:45 - 08:05 SS2.1 (4) Imaging covert cognition and consciousness

Athena Demertzi

Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Li?ge, Li?ge, Belgium

08:05 - 08:25 SS2.2 A new fMRI approach for establishing conscious awareness and communication in behaviourally nonresponsive patients (Cancelled attendance)

Lorina Naci

The Brain and Mind Institute, Western University,London, ON, Canada

08:25 - 08:45 SS2.3 (140) Right median nerve electrical stimulation improves the outcome of traumatic coma patients

Guo-yi Gao

Department of Neurosurgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

08:45 - 08:55 Discussion

March 20 - Sunrise seminars SS1/3 Host factors: Comorbidities,Genomics and Epigenetics
Michael G Fehlings - Oliver W Sakowitz - Plenary room 3

07:45 - 08:05 SS3.1 (75) TBI in an ageing population with co-morbidities and their therapies

Fiona Lecky

School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

08:05 - 08:25 SS3.2 Genetic Factors and Outcome Post TBI

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia

Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Rockville, MD, USA

08:25 - 08:45 SS3.3 (156) Rehabilomics Research: Examining Approaches to Personalized Medicine in TBI

Amy K Wagner

Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

08:45 - 08:55 Discussion

March 20 - Morning Plenary State-of-the-art Lectures
Edward D Hall - András Büki - Plenary room 1-2

09:15 - 09:45 PL1 State-of-the-art Lecture on Traumatic Brain Injury

John T Povlishock

Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA

09:45 - 10:15 PL2 State-of-the-art Lecture on Spinal Cord Injury

Michael G Fehlings,

Institute, University Health Network; Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Spinal Program, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network; Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery and Spinal Program, University of Toronto, Canada

10:15 - 10:45 PL3 Lifetime Perspective on Head Injury

Thomas A Gennarelli

Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

March 20 - Pro and con session and parallel plenary session PC1 ICP Monitoring
David K Menon - Plenary room 1

13:45 - 13:50 Moderators intro

David K Menon

13:50 - 14:00 PC1.2 (122) A Swine Model of Intracellular Cerebral Edema

Guy Rosenthal

Guy Rosenthal, Fernando Ramirez de Noreiga, Samuel Moscovici, Eyal Itshayek, Ramez Abu Shkara, Yakov Felig, Geoffrey T Manley

Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel

14:00 - 14:10 PC1.3 (202) Optimal cerebral perfusion pressure - towards individualised treatment in severe traumatic brain injury

Marek Czosnyka

Marcel J Aries1,2, Angelos G Kolias1, Marek Czosnyka1, Karol P Budohoski1, Luzius A Steiner3, Andrea Lavinio1,4,6, Ken M Brady5, David K Menon4,6, John D Pickard1, Peter J Hutchinson1, Peter Smielewski1

1Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital & University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK 2Department of Neurology, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

14:10 - 14:40 PRO-CON Debate

Randall M Chesnut

Dept. of Neurological Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

14:40 - 15:10 PRO-CON Debate

Andrew IR Maas

Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium

15:10 - 15:40 Discussion

March 20 - Pro and con session and parallel plenary session PC2 Preclinical Discovery
W Dalton Dietrich - Plenary room 2

13:45 - 13:50 Moderators intro

W Dalton Dietrich

13:50 - 14:00 PC2.1 (66) Treatment with combined EPO and BDNF supports hippocampal neurogenesis and improves functional outcome following focal TBI

Nicole Bye

Nicole Bye, Alison Conquest, Alex Gotama, Jeffrey V Rosenfeld, Maria Cristina Morganti- Kossmann

National Trauma Research Institute, Alfred Hospital and Department of Surgery, Monash University, Victoria, Australia

14:00 - 14:10 PC2.2 (114) Characterization of TBI Models and Evaluation of Efficacy of Nicotinamide, Erythropoietin, and Cyclosporin A using Serum Biomarkers: Results from Operation Brain Trauma Therapy

Stefania Mondello

Stefania Mondello1, Deborah A Shear2, Helen M Bramlett3, C Edward Dixon4, Kara Schmid2, W Dalton Dietrich3, Kevin KW Wang5, Ronald L Hayes6, Frank C Tortella2, Patrick M Kochanek4

1Department of Neuroscience, University of Messina, Messina, Italy 2Department of Applied Neurobiology, Division of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA

14:10 - 14:20 PC2.3 (44) Extracellular Matrix Biomarkers for Acute Neurological Injury

Jonathan Lifshitz

Jonathan Lifshitz, Caroline Addington, Christine Pauken, Daniel R Griffiths, Sarah Stabenfeldt

Barrow Neurological Institute at Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Department of Child Health, University of Arizona, College of Medicine - Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona, USA Phoenix Veterans Administration Health Care System, Phoenix, Arizona, USA School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

14:20 - 14:50 PRO-CON Debate

Edward C Dixon

Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

14:50 - 15:20 PRO-CON Debate

Esther Shohami

Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

15:20 - 15:40 Discussion

March 20 - Pro and con session and parallel plenary session PP1 Assessing and Predicting Outcome
Nicole von Steinbüchel - Marc J Simard - Plenary room 3

13:45 - 14:05 PP1.1 (174) Predicting Outcome after TBI: current status and future perspectives

Ewout Steyerberg

Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands

14:05 - 14:25 PP1.2 (227) Outcome prediction in persistent post traumatic coma

Louis Puybasset

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care; Pitié-Salp?tri?re Hospital,Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, Paris, France

14:25 - 14:45 PP1.3 (158) Head-Injured Patients Who Talk and Deteriorate: Analysis of 192 Cases Registered in the Japan Neurotrauma Data Bank

Takeshi Maeda

Department of Neurosurgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

14:45 - 15:05 PP1.5 (229) Outcome assessment after acquired brain injury

Nicole von Steinbüchel

Dept. of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany

15:05 - 15:15 Discussion
15:15 - 15:25 PP1.4 (43) Injury Severity and Seizure Development after Traumatic Brain Injury

Helen M Bramlett

Helen M Bramlett, Justin Sick, Joseph Wasserman, Amade Bregy, W Dalton Dietrich, Thomas Sick

Departments of Neurological Surgery and Neurology, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA Bruce W. Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Miami, Florida, USA

15:25 - 15:35 PP1.6 (198) CT and MRI findings are not predictive of long-term outcome following mild traumatic brain injury

Paul McMahon

Paul McMahon, Ava Puccio, Jamie Pardini, Allison Hricik, David O Okonkwo

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

15:35 - 15:45 PP1.7 (223) Factors of influence on surgical decision making and outcome in patients with acute subdural hematoma: a retrospective study of 109 patients with evaluation of quality of live

TA van Essen

TA van Essen, GC de Ruiter, WC Peul

Department of Neurosurgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Center Haaglanden, The Hague, The Netherlands

15:45 - 15:55 Discussion

March 20 - Afternoon parallel plenary session PP2 Diffuse Axonal Injury International Society for Neurochemistry Symposium on Diffuse Brain Injury
John T Povlishock - Guo-yi Gao - Plenary room 1

16:10 - 16:30 PP2.1 (228) The Pathology of Diffuse Axonal Injury

Willie Stewart

Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow, United Kingdom

16:30 - 16:50 PP2.2 (207) Tackling Concussion: Neuromechanics and Neuropathology

Douglas H Smith

Center of Brain Injury and Repair, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

16:50 - 17:10 PP2.3 Delayed Onset of Axonal Demage Following Experimental TBI: Implications for chronic neurodegeneration in brain injury and disease

Ronald L Hayes

Banyan Biomarkers Inc. / Banyan Laboratories, Alachua, FL, USA

17:10 - 17:30 PP2.4 Therapeutic Targets

David O Okonkwo

Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

17:30 - 17:40 Discussion
17:40 - 17:50 PP2.5 (214) Prognostic relevance of longitudinal brain atrophy estimation in posttraumatic diffuse axonal injury

Monti Emanuele

Monti Emanuele1, Balbi Sergio1, Pedoia Valentina2, Binaghi Elisabetta2, Minotto Renzo3, Mauri Marco3, Sangiorgi Simone3, De Benedictis Alessandro3

1Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Scienze della vita, Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese 2Dipartimento di Scienze teoriche ed applicate, sezione Informatica, Universita degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese 3Ospedale di Circolo Fondazione Macchi, Varese

17:50 - 18:00 PP2.6 (182) A Preliminary Study Serum ß-Actin as Potential Biomarker of Diffuse Axonal Injury in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Antonino Germano

Antonino Germano, L Merlo, F Cimino1, A Speciale1, M Cristani1, D Fratantonio1, G Raffa, S Priola, RV Abritti, A Saija1, A David2

1Department Pharmaco-Biologico, Neurosurgical Clinic, University of Messina, Italy 2Intensive Care Unit, Neurosurgical Clinic, University of Messina, Italy

18:00 - 18:10 PP2.7 (149) The cerebrovascular and axonal responses to repetitive mild traumatic brain injury in the juvenile rat

Takashi Miyauchi

Takashi Miyauchi1,2, Enoch P Wei1, John T Povlishock1

1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA 2Yamaguchi Medical Center, Yamaguchi, Japan

18:10 - 18:20 PP2.8 (69) Evaluating APP96- 110, a peptide derived from the Amyloid Precursor Protein, as a novel therapeutic agent against traumatic brain injury

Stephanie Plummer

Stephanie Plummer1, Emma Thornton1, Frances Corrigan1, Robert Vink1, Roberto Cappai2, Corinna van den Heuvel1

1Adelaide Center for Neuroscience Research, The University of Adelaide, Australia 2Department of Pathology, The University of Melbourne, Australia

18:20 - 18:30 Discussion

March 20 - Afternoon parallel plenary session PP3 International Initiatives in Neurotrauma Research
Andrew IR Maas - Alexandra Brazinova - Plenary room 2

16:10 - 16:30 PP3.1 (204) NIH Participation in the International Traumatic Brain Injury Research (InTBIR) Initiative

Ramona Hicks

National Institute of Health, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, MD, USA

16:30 - 16:50 PP3.2 (175) The International Traumatic Brain Injury Research (InTBIR) Initiative

Philippe Cupers

European Commission, Research and Innovation, Brussels, Belgium

16:50 - 17:10 PP3.3 (222) Canadian Participation in the International Initiative for Traumatic Brain Injury Research (InTBIR)

Anthony G Phillips

Institute of Neurosciences, Mental Health and Addiction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

17:10 - 17:20 Discussion
17:20 - 17:30 PP3.4 (34) The Austrian Project. Improvement of prehospital and early hospital care of TBI patients: Goal and Methods of the study

Alexandra Brazinova

Alexandra Brazinova1,2, Walter Mauritz2,3, Marek Majdan1,2

1Dept. of Public Health, Faculty of Health Care and Social Work, Trnava University, Slovakia 2International Neurotrauma Research Organisation, Vienna, Austria 3Trauma Center ?Lorenz Boehler?, Vienna, Austria

17:30 - 17:40 PP3.5 (101) The effect of crossovers in the first randomised controlled trial of surgery for traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage [STITCH(trauma)]

Barbara A Gregson

Barbara A Gregson, David A Mendelow, Elise N Rowan, Richard Francis, Patrick Mitchell

Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

17:40 - 17:50 PP3.6 (99) Results from the first randomised controlled trial of surgery for traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage [STITCH(trauma)]

David A Mendelow

David A Mendelow, Barbara A Gregson, Elise Rowan, Richard Francis, Patrick Mitchell

Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

17:50 - 18:00 PP3.7 (37) The Austrian Project Improvement of prehospital and early hospital care of TBI patients Results of the study

Alexandra Brazinova

Walter Mauritz1,2, Alexandra Brazinova1,3, Marek Majdan1,3

1International Neurotrauma Research Organisation, Vienna, Austria 2Trauma Center ?Lorenz Boehler?, Vienna, Austria 3Dept. of Public Health, Faculty of Health Care and Social Work, Trnava University, Slovakia

18:00 - 18:10 PP3.8 (48) The effectiveness evaluation of helicopter ambulance transport among neurotrauma patients in Korea - Neurosurgical helicopter ambulance transport in small country

Jin Mo Cho

Jin Mo Cho, Sook Jin Seo, Se-Hyuk Kim

Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

18:10 - 18:30 Discussion

March 20 - Afternoon parallel plenary session PP4 Advanced Imaging
Péter Bogner - Walter Schneider - Plenary room 3

16:10 - 16:30 PP4.1 (172) Quantitative assessment of cortical atrophy and axonal demyelination in severe traumatic brain injury using multimodal neuroimaging

Andrei Irimia

Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, Department of Neurology, University of California, CA, USA

16:30 - 16:50 PP4.2 (26) Functional MRI in TBI

Emmanuel A Stamatakis

Division of Anaesthesia, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

16:50 - 17:10 PP4.3 (234) Recovery of sensory-motor function of the lower limbs after complete paralysis: How, Why and What is to follow?

Reggie V Edgerton

Department of Neurosurgery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

17:10 - 17:20 Discussion
17:20 - 17:30 PP4.4 (120) Dynamic evolution of atrophy after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury

Virginia Newcombe

Virginia Newcombe, Christian Ledig, Guilia Abate, Joanne Outtrim, Doris Chatfield, Thomas Geeraerts, Anne Manktelow, Peter J Hutchinson, Jonathan Coles, Guy Williams, Daniel Rueckert, David Menon

Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, University of Cambridge Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK

17:30 - 17:40 PP4.5 (104) Quantitative Assessments of Traumatic Axonal Injury in the Living Human Brain: Combined Microdialysis and Advanced MRI Approaches

Sandra Magnoni

Sandra Magnoni1, Christine L Mac Donald5, Thomas J Esparza5, Valeria Conte1, James Sorrell5, Giulio Bertani2,4, Riccardo Biffi3, Mario Macri4, Antonella Costa3, Brian Sammons5, Abraham Z Snyder5,6, Joshua Shimony6, Fabio Triulzi3, Nino Stocchetti1,4, David L Brody5

1Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione IRCCS C Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy 2Department of Neurosurgery, Fondazione IRCCS C Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy 3Department of Neuroradiology, Fondazione IRCCS C Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

17:40 - 17:50 PP4.6 (135) Symptoms after mild traumatic brain injury correlate with cerebrovascular reactivity changes in BOLD MRI

Leodante da Costa

Leodante da Costa, CHB van Niftrik, D Crane, J Fierstra, A Bethune

Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, Sunnybrook Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

17:50 - 18:00 PP4.7 (6) Very High Resolution Ultrasound Imaging to Assess the Injured Spinal Cord and Extent of Blood- Spinal Cord Barrier Disruption

Marc Soubeyrand

Marc Soubeyrand, Anna Badner, Reaz Vawda, Young Sun Chung, Michael G Fehlings

Division of Genetics and Development and Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

18:00 - 18:10 PP4.8 (231) Quantifying White Matter Structural Integrity with High Definition Fiber Tracking in Traumatic Brain Injury

David O Okonkwo

David O Okonkwo, Walter Schneider, Nora Presson, Sue Beers, Lisa Marrow, Allison Borasso, Ava M Pucci

Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

18:10 - 18:30 Discussion

March 21 - Sunrise seminars SS2/4 BBB and Vascular Dysfunction
Antonino Germano - Pál Barzó - Plenary room 1

07:45 - 08:05 SS4.1 (210) Vascular Compromise in Contusion Expansion

J Marc Simard

University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

08:05 - 08:25 SS4.2 (224) Blast-Induced Cerebral Vascular Dysfunction (Cancelled attendance)

Douglas DeWitt

Charles R Allen Research Laboratories, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA

08:25 - 08:45 SS4.3 (136) Blood Brain Barrier Disruption Persists for Years After a Single Traumatic Brain Injury in Humans

Jennifer Hay

Department of Neuropathology, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, UK

08:45 - 08:55 Discussion

March 21 - Sunrise seminars SS2/5 Pediatric Neurotrauma
Guy Rosenthal - Zsolt Kopniczky - Plenary room 2

07:45 - 08:05 SS5.1 Clinical Management

Anthony Figaji

Institute for Child Health, Red Cross Children?s Hospital Rondebosch, University of Cape town, Cape Town, South Africa

08:05 - 08:25 SS5.2 (10) Approaches and Decisions for Acute Pediatric TBI - An International Effort

Michael J Bell

Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

08:25 - 08:45 SS5.3 (22) Animal Models of Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury

Susan Margulies

Penn Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

08:45 - 08:55 Discussion

March 21 - Sunrise seminars SS2/6 Axonal Pathfinding and regeneration
Willie Stewart - Douglas Smith - Plenary room 3

07:45 - 08:05 SS6.1 (141) Regeneration and Relays in the Injured Spinal Cord

Armin Blesch

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany

08:05 - 08:25 SS6.2 (14) Cytoskeletal Mechanisms of Axonal Growth and Regeneration

Frank Bradke

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany

08:25 - 08:45 SS6.3 (188) Modeling spinal cord injury in the primate

Jacqueline C Bresnahan

Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

08:45 - 08:55 Discussion

March 21 - Morning plenary Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Edward C Dixon - Anthony Figaji - Plenary room 1-2

09:15 - 09:45 PL4 (78) Biomarkers of Mild TBI

Bo-Michael Bellander

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section for Neurosurgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

09:45 - 10:15 PL5 (9) Treatment of Sports Related Concussion: Summary of the Current Recommendations of Three Prominent Sports Medicine Organizations

Donald W Marion

The Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC, WA, USA

10:15 - 10:45 PL6 (23) Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries

Mayumi Prins

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Department of Neurosurgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

March 21 - 3 minute Flash presentations
Esther Shohami - Edward D Hall - Andreas Unterberg - Plenary room 2

10:45 - 10:48 F01 Amelioration of traumatic brain injury-induced increased cerebrovascular permeability by endothelial progenitor cells in mice

Nino Muradashvili

Nino Muradashvili, Reeta Tyagi, Timothy E O?Toole, Suresh C Tyagi, David Lominadze

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

10:48 - 10:51 F02 A novel mouse model of penetrating TBI

Stefan Plantman

Stefan Plantman, Marten Risling, Johan Davidsson

Departement of Neuroscience Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden

10:51 - 10:54 F03 Treatment with etifoxine improves functional recovery following traumatic brain injury in rats

Emmanuelle Simon O'Brien

Emmanuelle Simon O'Brien, Marc Verleye

Biocodex, Gentilly, France

10:54 - 10:57 F04 Seizure susceptibility after traumatic injury to the pediatric mouse brain

Bridgette D Semple

Bridgette D Semple1, Kayleen Gimlin1, Terence OBrien2, Linda Noble-Haeusslein1

1Department of Neurological Surgery, and Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA 2Dept. of Medicine (Royal Melbourne Hospital), Melbourne Brain Centre, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

10:57 - 11:00 F05 Characterisation of a Novel Model of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Kelly McAteer

Kelly McAteer, Frances Corrigan, Emma Thornton, Corinna van den Heuvel, Robert Vink

Discipline of Anatomy and Pathology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

11:00 - 11:03 F06 Measurement of biomarkers of brain damage in TBI patients recruited in the EPO-TBI randomised clinical trial

Hellewell SC

Hellewell SC1,2, Conquest AL1,2, Bye N1,2, Morganti-Kossmann MC3,4,5

1National Trauma Research Institute, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2Department of Surgery, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 4Australian New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 5Barrow Neurological Institute, Department of Child Health, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA

11:03 - 11:06 F07 Defining platelet function in polytrauma patients with traumatic brain injury upon admission to the emergency department

Gretchen M Brophy

Gretchen M Brophy1, Bassem M Mohammed1, Nathan J White2, Erika J Martin1, Jason Newton1, Daniel Contaifer1, Jingmei Song1, Penny S Reynolds1, Kevin R Ward3, Donald F Brophy1

1Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA 2Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, Washington, USA 3University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

11:06 - 11:09 F08 PTSD and mild traumatic brain injury: changes in the serotonergic, noradrenergic and galanin systems

Lizan Kawa

Lizan Kawa1, T Hökfelt1, D Agoston1,2, U Arborelius1, M Risling1

1Karolinska Institutet, Neuroscience, Stockholm, Sweden 2Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

11:09 - 11:12 F09 Should patients with GCS score 13 be classified as moderate traumatic brain injury?

Cathrine Elisabeth Einarsen

Cathrine Elisabeth Einarsen1,2, Rune Hatlestad Karlsen1, Stine Borgen Lund3, Kent Goran Moen1,3, Anne Vik1,3, Toril Skandsen1,2

1Department of Neuroscience, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 2Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway 3Department of Neurosurgery, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Norway

11:12 - 11:15 F10 Different implications of mild traumatic brain injury - our experience

Mladen Karan

Mladen Karan1, Kosta Petrović2, Vojislava Bugarski3, Bojan Jelača1, Vladimir Papić1, Đula Đilvesi1, Željka Nikolašević4, Petar Vuleković1

1Clinic of Neurosurgery, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia 2Radiology Centre, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad,Serbia 3Neurology Clinic, Clinical Centre of Vojvodina, Novi Sad,Serbia 4Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

11:15 - 11:18 F11 Is N-acetylaspartate a measure of mitochondrial dysfunction after traumatic brain injury?

William Brooks

William Brooks, Janna Harris, Henry Yeh, In-Young Choi, Phil Lee, Russell Swerdlow

University of Kansas Medical Center, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA

11:18 - 11:21 F12 Can magnetic resonance spectroscopy simultaneously probe links between edema and energy disruption following traumatic brain injury?

William Brooks

William Brooks, Janna Harris, Henry Yeh, Phil Lee, In-Young Choi, Russell Swerdlow

University of Kansas Medical Center, Hoglund Brain Imaging Center and Departments of Neurology, Biostatistics, and Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Kansas City, USA

11:21 - 11:24 F13 Lateral Ventricle Volume Asymmetry Predicts Midline Shift and 6-month Outcome in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Arnold Tóth

Arnold Tóth1, Ilona Schmalfuss2, Shelley C Heaton3, Andrea Gabrielli4, H Julia Hannay5, Linda Papa6, Gretchen M Brophy7, Kevin KW Wang8, András Büki1, Attila Schwarcz1, Ronald L Hayes9, Claudia S Robertson10, Steven A Robicsek11

1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary 2Department of Radiology, North Florida/ South Georgia Veterans Administration & University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 4Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 5Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA 6Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando, FL, USA 7Department of Pharmacotherapy & Outcomes Science and Neurosurgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA 8Center for Neuroproteomics & Biomarkers Research Departments of Psychiatry & Neuroscience McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

11:24 - 11:27 F14 Estimation of the prognostic value of brain stem segmentation by probabilistic tractography in severe traumatic brain injury and its verification by anatomical dissection

Dávid Kis

Dávid Kis1, Adrienn Máté1, Zoltán Mencser1, Andrea Czigner2, Pál Barzó1

1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary 2Institute of Anatomy, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

11:27 - 11:30 F15 Intraparenchymal electrode recordings of cortical spreading depolarisation and continuous seizure activity - neurovascular disruption and seizure oxygen thresholds

Toby Jeffcote

Toby Jeffcote1, S Jewell1, C Pahl1, C Tolias1, D Walsh1, A Strong1, S Mulcahy2, M Boutelle2

1Kings College London 2Imperial College London

11:30 - 11:33 F16 Effects of hydrostatic cerebrospinal fluid pressure in different body positions on cerebrospinal fluid movement

Klarica M

Klarica M1, Vukić M2, Radoš M1, Jurjević I1, Erceg G1, Petošić A3, Orešković D4

1University of Zagreb, School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Croatian Institute for Brain Research, Zagreb, Croatia 2Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb,Croatia 3University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Dept. of Electroacoustics, Zagreb, Croatia 4Ruđer Bošković Institute, Department of Molecular Biology, Zagreb, Croatia

11:33 - 11:36 F17 Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 Levels are Increased in Peri-Contusional Brain: A Paired Microdialysis Study

Mathew R Guilfoyle

Mathew R Guilfoyle1, Adel Helmy1, Keri LH Carpenter1,2, David K Menon2,3, John D Pickard1,2, Peter J Hutchinson1,2

1Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 2Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK 3Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

11:36 - 11:39 F18 National study of chronic subdural haematoma in the United Kingdom

Angelos G Kolias

Angelos G Kolias1, Ian C Coulter2, Alexis J Joannides1, Barbara Gregson3, Paul M Brennan4, Peter J Hutchinson1 on behalf of the British Neurosurgical Trainee Research Collaborative (BNTRC)

1Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital & University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK 2Division of Neurosurgery, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK 3Neurosurgical Trials Unit, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK 4Division of Neurosurgery, Western General Hospital & University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

11:39 - 11:42 F19 Injured Spinal Cord Pressure Evaluation (ISCoPE) study - expansion duroplasty reduces spinal cord pressure in acute spinal cord injury

Phang IS

Phang IS, Werndle MC, Varsos G, Smielewski P, Czosnyka M, Zoumprouli A, Papadopoulos MC

Academic Neurosurgery Unit, St George's University of London, London Department of Neurosurgery, Cambridge University, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge Department of Neuroanaesthesia, St George's NHS Trust, London

11:42 - 11:45 F20 A time-course of histological and behavioral pathology associated with intracranial pressure elevation following moderate diffuse traumatic brain injury

Audrey Lafrenaye

Audrey Lafrenaye, John T Povlishock

Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, VA, USA

11:45 - 11:48 F21 Hypothermia in TBI for control of intracranial hypertension: Standalone therapeutic option or adjunct?

Deepak Gupta

Deepak Gupta1, Ashish Bindra1, Pankaj Kumar Singh1, Peter Andrews2, SS Kale1, BS Sharma1

1Department of Neurosurgery and Neuroanesthesia, JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS, Delhi 2Department of Anesthesia, University of Edinburgh, UK

11:48 - 11:51 F22 Pre- and Postoperative Cerebral Perfusion Assessments in Chronic Subdural Hematoma

Antonino Germano

Antonino Germano, L Merlo, A Campenn1, G Trimarchi2, Baldari S1

1Department of Radiology - Nuclear Medicine, Neurosurgical Clinic, University of Messina, Italy 2Department of Economics, Neurosurgical Clinic, University of Messina, Italy

11:51 - 11:54 F23 Remote-ischemic preconditioning as a prophylactic treatment for mild traumatic brain injury

Eugene Park

Eugene Park1, Misbah Nadeem Lalani2, Andrew J Baker1,2,3

1Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute at St. Michael?s Hospital, Toronto, Canada 2Departments of Anesthesia & Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 3Department of Critical Care St. Michael?s Hospital, Toronto, Canada

11:54 - 11:57 F24 The effect of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) on the structural plasticity of the axon initial segment (AIS)

Michal Vascak

Michal Vascak, Anders H?nell, John E Greer, Kimberle M Jacobs, John T Povlishock

Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Medicine

11:57 - 12:00 F25 Molecular mapping of the brain of PACAP deficient and wild-type mice with imaging mass spectrometry

Rivnyák Ádám

Rivnyák Á1, Maasz G2,3,4, Schmidt J2,3,4, Pirger Zs1,5, Mihalik A1, Kiss P1, Gaszner B1, Hashimoto H6, Tamás A1, Mark L2,3,4, Reglődi D1

1Department of Anatomy, PTE-MTA ?Lendulet? PACAP Research Team, Pécs, Hungary 2Department of Analytical Biochemistry Institute of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry 3Imaging Center for Life and Material Sciences 4Janos Szentagothai Research Center, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary 5Chemical Ecology and Neurobiology, Department of Experimental Zoology, Balaton Limnological Institute, Centre for Ecological Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary 6Graduate School of Pharmacological Sciences, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

12:00 - 12:03 F26 Traumatic brain injury by controlled cortical impact in mice - time courses of neuroinflammation, corpus callosum demyelination, sensorimotor deficits, edema and lesion

Cho AH

Cho AH, Taib T, Leconte C, Deou E, Palmier B, Plotkine M, Marchand-Leroux C, Besson VC

Paris Descartes University, Sorbonne Paris Cité Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques et Biologiques - Pharmacology of Cerebral Circulation, Paris, France

March 21 - Roundtable discussions Codman Neuro Seminar Surgical Approaches To TBI: Bone Decompression And More
András Büki - Plenary room 3

10:45 - 10:50 Introduction

Prof. András Büki

10:50 - 11:10 Who may benefit from Decompressive Carniectomy? Lessons to learn from recent and ongoing trials

Prof. Peter J Hutchinson

Addenbrooke?s Hospital & University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

11:10 - 11:30 Surgical approaches to TBI before and after decompression

Prof. Franco Servadei

University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy

11:30 - 11:45 Q&A Session & Closing Remarks

Prof. András Büki

University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

March 21 - Roundtable discussions Round Table Discussion on Biomarkers in Neurotrauma
David K Menon - Plenary room 3

13:30 - 13:55 Standardization of data collection - clinical experience: the Common Data Elements - approach

David O Okonkwo

Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

13:55 - 14:20 Biomarkers of the acute phase in TBI of various severity

Viktoria Bogner

Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

14:20 - 14:45 Biomarkers of the chronic phase of TBI/markers of neurodegeneration

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Rockville, MD, USA

14:45 - 15:10 Novel candidate biomarkers and novel avenues of assay development

Douglas H Smith

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

March 21 - Roundtable discussions CENTER-TBI: Investigator initiated research questions and other global initiatives
Andrew IR Maas - Plenary room 3

15:15 - 15:30 CENTER-TBI study

David K Menon

Department of Anaesthesia, Addenbrooke?s Hospital, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

15:30 - 15:45 TRACK-TBI and CENTER-TBI: accelerating research by collaboration

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia1, David O Okonkwo2

1Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Rockville, MD, USA 2Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

15:45 - 15:55 CENTER-TBI in China

Guo-yi Gao

Department of Neurosurgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

15:55 - 16:05 CENTER-TBI in India

Deepak Gupta

Department of Neurosurgery and Neuroanesthesia, JPN Apex Trauma Centre, AIIMS, Delhi

16:05 - 16:30 Round table discussions

March 22 - Sunrise seminar SS3/7 Hypothermia for Spinal Cord Injury
David O Okonkwo - Edward C Dixon - Plenary room 1

07:45 - 08:05 SS7.1 The use of therapeutic hypothermia targeting severe spinal cord injury

W Dalton Dietrich

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA

08:05 - 08:25 SS7.2 Hypothermia for Spinal Cord Injury

Michael G Fehlings

Institute, University Health Network; Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Spinal Program, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network; Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery and Spinal Program, University of Toronto, Canada

08:25 - 08:45 SS7.3 (5) Future directions of hypothermia therapy for traumatic brain injury from clinical studies in Japan

Eichi Suehiro

Department of Neurosurgery, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan

08:45 - 08:55 Discussion

March 22 - Sunrise seminars SS3/8 Therapeutic Windows for Neuroprotection in Animals and Humans
Mayumi Prins - Steven A Robicsek - Plenary room 2

07:45 - 08:05 SS8.1 (142) Identifying the Therapeutic Window; the Issue of Timescales in Clinical versus Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury

Denes V Agoston

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA

08:05 - 08:25 SS8.2 (79) The Neuroprotective Therapeutic Windows for Inhibiting Post-TBI Secondary Injury are Similar in Animals and Humans

Edward D Hall

Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center,University of Kentucky, Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, KY, USA

08:25 - 08:45 SS8.3 (20) Lessons in Critical Care Research from a Global Phase 3 Trial of Progesterone in Patients with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (sTBI)

Neta R Nelson

VP Project Management & Operations Besins Healthcare/ BHR Pharma, LLC affiliate, Herndon, VA, USA

08:45 - 08:55 Discussion

March 22 - Sunrise seminars SS3/9 Contemporary challenges in the care for severe TBI
Randall M Chesnut - György T Szeifert - Plenary room 3

07:45 - 08:05 SS9.1 Antiplatelet therapy in TBI

Oliver W Sakowitz

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

08:05 - 08:25 SS9.2 (159) Neurotraumathe role of the residents? The changing face of TBI care

Doortje Engel

Department of Neurosurgery, Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

08:25 - 08:45 SS9.3 Hemostatic disorders after Traumatic Brain Injury

Marc Maegele

Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University of Witten/ Herdecke, Cologne-Merheim Medical Center, Cologne, Germany

08:45 - 08:55 Discussion

March 22 - Morning plenary Imaging in the assessment of TBI
Andrew IR Maas - Tamás Dóczi - Plenary room 1-2

09:15 - 09:45 PL7 Novel imaging techniques for characterising TBI severity at admission

David O Okonkwo

Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

09:45 - 10:15 PL8 Imaging approaches to mapping pathophysiology

David K Menon

Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

10:15 - 10:45 PL9 Neuroanatomical substrates of TBI outcomes

Walter Schneider

Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

March 22 - Pro and con session and parallel plenary session PP5 Preclinical Neuroprotection
Ronald L Hayes - Cristina Morganti-Kossmann - Plenary room 2

13:45 - 14:05 PP5.1 (45) TBI-Preclinical Neuroprotection

Alan I Faden

Department of Anesthesiology & Center for Shock, Trauma and Anesthesiology Research (STAR), National Study Center for Trauma and EMS, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

14:05 - 14:25 PP5.2 (176) Exercise Dependent Plasticity in the Injured Spinal Cord

John D Houle

Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Spinal Cord Research Center, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

14:25 - 14:45 PP5.3 (221) Neuroprotection: Preclinical/Translational Discovery

Robert Vink

Discipline of Anatomy and Pathology, Adelaide Centre for Neuroscience Research, School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia

14:45 - 14:55 Discussion
14:55 - 15:05 PP5.4 (86) Pivotal role of vasopressin v1a receptors for brain edema formation, secondary brain damage and regulation of cerebral aquaporins following traumatic brain injury in mice

Katrin Rauen

Katrin Rauen1, Raimund Trabold1, Viorela Pop2, Jerome Badaut2, Nikolaus Plesnila1,3

1Institute for Surgical Research & Department of Neurosurgery, University of Munich Medical Center, Munich, Germany 2Department of Pediatrics, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Loma Linda, CA, USA 3Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University of Munich Medical Center, Munich, Germany

15:05 - 15:15 PP5.5 (98) Riluzole provides neuroprotection and attenuates ischemia reperfusion injury following surgical decompression in experimental cervical spondylotic myelopathy

Spyridon Karadimas

Spyridon Karadimas1,2, A Laliberte1,2, YS Chung2, WD Foltz3,4, MG Fehlings1,2,5

1Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2Division of Genetics & Development, Toronto Western Research Institute, and Spinal Program, Krembil Neuroscience Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3STTARR Innovation Centre, Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

15:15 - 15:25 PP5.6 (116) Bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells drive protective M2 microglia polarization after brain trauma

Elisa R Zanier

Elisa R Zanier, Francesca Pischiutta, Loredana Riganti, Federica Marchesi, Elena Turola, Stefano Fumagalli, Carlo Perego, Emanuela Parotto, Paola Vinci, Pietro Veglianese, Giovanna D?Amico, Claudia Verderio, Maria-Grazia De Simoni

IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri, Department of Neuroscience; Milan, Italy

15:25 - 15:35 PP5.7 (18) Blocking p75NTR signal reduces white matter damage and aids recovery after controlled cortical impact brain injury

Michael Beattie

Michael Beattie, Sang Mi Lee, Amity Lin, Jeffrey Sacramento, Ernesto Salegio, Leda Mannent, Marie-Noelle Castel, Benoit Canolle, Jacqueline C Bresnahan

1Department of Neurological Surgery, Brain and Spinal Injury Center, University of California San Francisco, CA, USA 2Sanofi R&D, 1 avenue Pierre Brossolette, Chilly-Mazarin, France

15:35 - 15:45 PP5.8 (85) Acute antagonism of the complement anaphylatoxin receptor C5aR improves the outcome from experimental spinal cord injury

Marc J Ruitenberg

Marc J Ruitenberg1,2, Faith H Brennan1, Richard Gordon1, Linda V Blomster1, Hong Wa Lao1, Gary J Cowin3, Stephen M Taylor1, Trent M Woodruff1

1The School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

15:45 - 15:55 Discussion

March 22 - Pro and con session and parallel plenary session PP6 Rehabilitation in Neurotrauma
W Dalton Dietrich - Bo-Michael Bellander - Plenary room 3

13:45 - 14:05 PP6.1 (76) Multi-target, dual-electrode deep brain stimulation of the thalamus and subthalamic area for treatment of Holmes? tremor after brain injury

Kazutaka Kobayashi

Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Neurological Surgery, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

14:05 - 14:25 PP6.2 Tau, P-tau alternations and linkage to tauopathy after TBI

Kevin KW Wang

Center for Neuroproteomics & Biomarkers Research, Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

14:25 - 14:35 Discussion
14:35 - 14:45 PP6.3 (32) Manipulating initiation time and duration of environmental enrichment exposure after traumatic brain injury to more accurately mimic clinical rehabilitation

Anthony E Kline

Anthony E Kline, Vincent V Mattiola, Jacob B Leary

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Center for Neuroscience, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Psychology, Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

14:45 - 14:55 PP6.4 (180) Long term outcome of severe TBI patients admitted to the largest neurotrauma center in Budapest

Gábor Nardai

Gábor Nardai, Erzsébet Baracskai

Péterfy Hospital and Trauma Center, Budapest, Hungary

14:55 - 15:05 PP6.5 (31) Environmental enrichment restores attentional set-shifting and behavioral flexibility after controlled cortical impact injury in male rats

Corina O Bondi

Corina O Bondi, Jeffrey P Cheng, Heather M Tennant, Naima Lajud, Christina M Monaco, Jacob Leary, Anthony E Kline

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, Center for Neuroscience, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Psychology, Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

15:05 - 15:15 PP6.6 (194) Prognosis of severe traumatic brain injury in Hungary? Analysis of the first ten years of the ?Pécs Severe Head Injury Database?

Noémi Kovács

Noémi Kovács1, Endre Czeiter1,2,3, Krisztina Amrein1,3, Erzsébet Ezer1, József Szabó4, Béla Demeter5, János Sándor6, András Büki1,2,3

1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary 2MTA-PTE Clinical Neuroscience MR Research Group, Pécs, Hungary 3University of Pécs, János Szentágothai Research Centre, Pécs, Hungary 4Vas County Hospital, Szombathely, Hungary 5BAZ County Hospital, Miskolc, Hungary 6Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

15:15 - 15:25 PP6.7 Validation of a new coma scale: Emergency Coma Scale

Katsuji Shima

Katsuji Shima1,2, Tomio Ohta2, Hiroshi Okudera2, Masaaki Iwase2, Yasuhiko Ajimi2

1Department of Neurosurgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan 2Japan Society of Neurosurgical Emergency

15:25 - 15:35 Discussion

March 22 - Pro and con session and parallel plenary session PC3 Decompressive craniectomy
Peter J Hutchinson - Plenary room 1

13:45 - 13:50 Moderator's intro

Peter J Hutchinson

13:50 - 14:00 PC3.1 (36) Decompressive craniectomy for severe traumatic brain injury: Ethical considerations

Stephen Honeybul

Stephen Honeybul, Grant Gillet, Kwok Ho

Sir Charles Gairdner Royal Perth Hospital, Nedlands, Australia

14:00 - 14:10 PC3.2 (110) Morphological changes on cortical surface and their correlation of with neurological outcome in patients with bone defects after decompressive craniectomy

Arthur Maynart Pereira Oliveira

Arthur Maynart Pereira Oliveira, Robson Luís Oliveira de Amorim, Wellingson Silva Paiva, Almir Ferreira de Andrade, Fernando Mendes Paschoal Junior, Edson Bor Seng Shu, Fernanda Coelho, Gabriel Scarabotolo Gattas, Renato Anghinah, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira

University of San Paulo, Department of Neurology, Discipline of Neurosurgery, Sao Paulo, Brazil

14:10 - 14:20 PC3.3 (127) RESCUE-ASDH study - A randomised trial of primary decompressive craniectomy versus craniotomy for acute subdural haematomas

Angelos G Kolias

Angelos G Kolias1, Antonio Belli2, Geoffrey T Manley3, Clare N Gallagher4, Andrew T King5, Ivan Timofeev1, A David Mendelow6, Gillian S McHugh7, John D Pickard1, Franco Servadei8, Peter J Kirkpatrick1, David K Menon9, Peter J Hutchinson1 on behalf of the RESCUE-ASDH Collaborative Group

1Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital & University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK 2NIHR Centre for Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital & University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

14:20 - 14:30 PC3.4 (148) 25 years experience of DC: the question has been reduced to only when and how instead of doing it or not

András Csókay

A Csókay, L Lipóth, A Jósvai

Military Hosp. Department of Neurosurgery, Budapest, Hungary

14:30 - 15:00 PRO-CON Debate

Ji-yao Jiang

Department of Neurosurgery, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, People?s Republic of China

15:00 - 15:30 PRO-CON Debate

Jamie Cooper

Intensive Care Research Centre, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

15:30 - 15:50 Discussion

March 22 - Afternoon parallel plenary session PP7 Non-Invasive and Multimodal Monitoring
Franco Servadei - Jamie Cooper - Plenary room 1

16:10 - 16:30 PP7.1 (27) Non-invasive ICP Monitoring

Marek Czosnyka

Academic Neurosurgical Unit, University of Cambridge Clinical School, Cambridge, UK

16:30 - 16:50 PP7.2 Microdialysis/Licox/ Autoregulation

Steven A Robicsek

College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville,FL, USA

16:50 - 16:55 Discussion
16:55 - 17:05 PP7.3 (42) Assessment of the CerOx Cerebral Oxygenation Monitor in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Patients

Guy Rosenthal

Guy Rosenthal, Alex Furmanov, Eyal Itshayek, Yigal Shoshan, Vineeta Singh

Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center University of California, San Francisco,USA

17:05 - 17:15 PP7.4 (100) The clinical pitfalls and possibilities using S100B monitoring in neuro intensive care of patients suffering from traumatic brain injury

Eric Thelin

Eric Thelin, Bo-Michael Bellander

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Section for Neurosurgery, Sweden

17:15 - 17:20 Discussion

March 22 - Afternoon parallel plenary session
Jed A Hartings - Ramon Diaz-Arrastia - Plenary room 2

16:10 - 16:30 PP8.1 Identification of bloodbased metabolic markers of traumatic braininjury

Matej Oresic

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland

16:30 - 16:50 PP8.2 Current status of the clinical application of microdialysis

Peter J Hutchinson

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke?s Hospital & University of Cambridge, UK

16:50 - 16:55 Discussion
16:55 - 17:05 PP8.3 (63) Energy Metabolism in Human Traumatic Brain Injury: 13C-Labelled Cerebral Microdialysis and High- Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies

Ibrahim Jalloh

Ibrahim Jalloh, Carpenter KLH, Gallagher CN, Grice P, Howe DJ, Mason A, Timofeev I, Helmy A, Murphy MP, Kirkpatrick PJ, Menon DK, Sutherland GR, Carpenter TA, Pickard JD, Hutchinson PJ

Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, UK

17:05 - 17:15 PP8.4 (72) New microdialysis method for protein biomarker sampling in the neurointensive care setting

Lars Hillered

Lars Hillered, Andreas Dahlin, Karlis Purins, Magnus Wetterhall, Jonas Bergquist, Klas Hjort, Per Enblad, Anders Lewén

Div of Neurosurgery, Dept of Neuroscience and Div of Microsystems Technology, Dept of Engineering Sciences, Div of Analytical Chemistry, Dept of Chemistry, BMC, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

17:15 - 17:20 Discussion

March 22 - Afternoon parallel plenary session PP9 Inflammation and Oxidative Damage in CNS Injury
Alan I Faden - Denes V Agoston - Plenary room 3

16:10 - 16:30 PP9.1 (173) Inflammasomes in the Central Nervous System

Robert W Keane

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Miller School of Medicine; University of Miami, FL, USA

16:30 - 16:50 PP9.2 (155) Immune Markers of Inflammation in TBI

Cristina Morganti-Kossmann

Dept. of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Victria, Australia

16:50 - 16:55 Discussion
16:55 - 17:05 PP9.3 (41) Protecting glia from oxidative stress during secondary degeneration following neurotrauma

Melinda Fitzgerald

Melinda Fitzgerald, Ryan L O?Hare Doig, Sophie C Payne, Carole A Bartlett, Donna L Savigni

Experimental and Regenerative Neurosciences, School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia, Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA, Australia

17:05 - 17:15 PP9.4 (56) Recombinant Human Interleukin-1 Antagonist Modifies the Neuro-inflammatory Response to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Adel Helmy

Adel Helmy, Mathew R Guilfoyle, Keri LH Carpenter, John D Pickard, David K Menon, Peter J Hutchinson

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

17:15 - 17:20 Discussion