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TARGET AUDIENCE

Family Physicians, Specialists, Internists, General Neurologists, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Clinicians, Residents, Students, and Other Health Professionals. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By attending this activity, participants will be able to: 

1. Synthesize the clinical diagnosis and management of a first seizure and risk of developing epilepsy. 
2. Summarize the pathophysiology, characteristic MRI findings and the treatment options of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy; the most common surgically remediable epilepsy syndrome. 
3. Confer seizures in the elderly when compared to younger adults, their treatment options and prognosis. 
4. Discuss SUDEP pathophysiology, preventive strategies and creating awareness. 
5. Recognize most common acute and chronic side effects of AEDs through a case based presentation. 

SESSION-SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Epilepsy Mimics

Joseph Perumpillichira, MBBS, MD, PhD, FRCPC

Presentation Objectives

• Recognize seizure mimics from clinical history
• Recall the investigations to order in non-epileptic episodic phenomena
• Apply the use and limitations of (video) EEG in diagnosis of epilepsy and its mimics

Epilepsy in the Intellectually Disabled 

Kevin Jones, MD, FRCPC, CSCN(EEG)

Presentation Objectives 

By attending this activity, participants will be able to: 

• To discuss the comorbidity of epilepsy and intellectual disability across the life span
• Review the diagnosis of epilepsy in the intellectually disabled
• Review the treatment of epilepsy in the intellectually disabled

Imaging in Epilepsy 

Nazir Khan, MD, FRCPC, DABR

Presentation Objectives

 By attending this activity, participants will be able to: 

• Identify common radiological entities that can manifest as seizure

• Recall the imaging protocols that pertain to different pathologies
• Plan the appropriate imaging request for a patient presenting with epilepsy

Syncope vs Epilepsy

Luis Morillo, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Presentation Objectives 

By attending this activity, participants will be able to: 

• Recall the clinical characteristics of syncope                                                   
• Describe the significance of syncopal myoclonus                                               
• Utilize a helpful tool for differentiating between a diagnosis of syncope vs seizures

Post-Stroke Epilepsy

Ahmed Attar, MBBS, FRCPC, ABPN, FAAN

Presentation Objectives 

By attending this activity, participants will be able to: 

• Discuss the epidemiology of stroke-related seizures                                    
• Describe the available treatments for stroke-related epilepsy                      
• Identify the diagnostic yields of EEG in patients with stroke-related epilepsy