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2012 UNE Psychiatry Symposium:
Back to the basics – Understanding Neuropsychiatry
Saturday, 25th February 2012 School of Rural Medicine, UNE
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The University of New England (UNE) is an international university located in a rural setting. The School of Rural Medicine, UNE is part of the Joint Medical Program with the University of Newcastle. The JMP mission is to train medical students to be excellent clinicians, who are able to practice medicine with confidence in either a rural or urban setting.
The 2012 UNE Psychiatry Symposium will be the first in a series of seminars in Psychiatry. The series will run over a two year period bringing together leading clinicians to this interactive meeting which will include several distinguished speakers, delivering lectures covering the key aspects of basic science and clinical practice in neuropsychiatry.
Presenters:
Professor Dinesh Arya – Chairman
Dr S Umesh Babu – “Traumatic Brain Injury – the neuropsychiatric trajectory”
Dr Andrew Gardner – “Performing a cognitive assessment at the bedside”
Professor Brian Kelly – “DelIrium”
Professor Saroja Krishnaswamy – “Seizures and pseudoseizures – examining the fundamentals”
Associate Professor Jerry Maguire – “The Neurophysiological basis of stuttering and its treatment implications”
Dr Vasilis Mantzioris – Case Study: “ At the molecular level in neuropsychiatry”
Professor Perminder Sachdev – “Classifying Neurocognitive disorders fo the 21st century: Dementia in DSM-5 and ICD-11”
Dr Peter Schofied - "Traumatic Brain Injury and offending, impulsivity and violence"