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Abstracts of the 26th Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability July 3-5, 2014, Vienna, Austria Contents Keynote Lectures 1 Invited Speakers / Parallel Sessions 2 Instructional Courses 8 Oral Presentations 11 Poster Sessions 18 Abstracts of the 26th Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability July 3-5, 2014, Vienna, Austria Keynote Lectures KL1-101 The way of Sigmund Freud from child neurology to psychoanalysis KL4-315 Music and its effects Kapfhammer H., Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie, Graz, Austria Stegemann T., Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Abteilung Musiktherapie, Vienna, Austria The historical lecture will review S. Freud´s way from child neurology to psychoanalysis on three levels. On a first level the major biographical steps will be Music is ubiquitous – in the history of mankind, there is no evidence of any societies sketched starting from initial scientific engagements already as medical student in without music. It can be assumed that music – singing, body percussion, and Brücke´s physiological laboratory and Claus´s zoological comparative anatomy, then drumming – has been a central part of healing rituals since ancient times. There are as young assistant at the Vienna General Hospital in T. Meynert´s laboratory working several historical examples of how music has been used in medical settings from on cerebral anatomy, conducting pharmacological experiments with cocaine and biblical to modern times. Music therapy as a health profession is still young. The first writing a theoretical treatise on aphasia, all scientific works that contributed to a academic training in music therapy in Vienna started 55 years ago, supported by successful habilitation at the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, afterwards eminent physicians in the field of mental health such as Andreas Rett. Since 2009, visiting Bernheim and Liébault in Nancy and Charcot and Janet in Paris during music therapy in Austria is regulated by a federal law, thus making the country one of academic visits, then via a halftime job as director of the neurological section in the few in the world with an official recognition of the profession. Making, and Kassowitz´s private Institute for Childrens´Diseases and becoming an acknowledged listening to, music has a significant impact on a variety of psychological domains, such specialist on infantile cerebral paresis, and opening a private neuropsychiatric practice as attention, learning and memory, and, not least, on social and emotional functioning. simultaneously being built up, initially cooperating with J. Breuer in cases of hysteria, Thus, it is not surprising that music therapy is a promising and wide-spread approach and finally, to establishing a psychotherapeutic practice that, retrospectively, may be for the treatment of children with special needs and/or mental health disorders. In considered as the starting point of the new discipline of psychoanalysis. A second this talk, the state of the art regarding neurobiological research on music and the level will reflect on the successive changes in scientific/clinical methods and brain will be covered. Findings from clinical studies and results from basic research concepts Freud underwent during his transition from child neurology to will be presented along with a discussion of implications for salutogenetic effects of psychoanalysis. And a third level will focus on the process of transformation of a music and music therapy in children. In addition, other art forms – dance, drama, and neurologically inspired model of the brain to a psychodynamically based model of the fine arts – will be considered for their relevance concerning mental development, mind. health, and well-being. KL2-102 From Freud and Lurija to neuropsychoanalysis, via the clinical method KL5-318 Why is autism more common in males? Solms M., University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Baron-Cohen S., Autism Research Centre, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK “The Other Side”: From Freud and Luria to neuropsychoanalysis, via the clinical Abstract: Why is autism more common in males? Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism method Mark Solms will review the relationship between Freud’s psychoanalytic Research Centre, Cambridge University Autism affects males much more often than method and the classical hypothetico-deductive method of clinical investigation in females. In classic autism it is about 4:1 (male: female) whilst in Asperger Syndrome internal medicine. Then he will review Luria’s relationship with psychoanalysis, and (AS) it is about 9:1. Under-diagnosis of females with AS (due to better imitation and show how his approach to neuropsychology emerged from the traditions of classical language skills, and greater social motivation to ‘camouflage’) may mean the true sex behavioural neurology combined with psychoanalysis. Lastly, Solms will show how ratio in AS is closer to 4:1, but the male-bias needs an explanation. Hormones (e.g., Luria’s work created the breakthrough into neuropsychoanalysis. the steroid hormones that shape brain development) and/or genetics (e.g., X-linked genes, or genes regulating and regulated by the steroid hormones) are strong candidate factors. Here I summarize work from our lab suggesting one steroid hormone, testosterone, measured in the womb is associated with individual differences in typical children’s language and social skills, attention to detail and KL3-215 Current ethical issues in childhood disability narrow interests, autistic traits, and later brain structure and function. A new large- scale study in collaboration with Denmark is testing if elevated prenatal steroid levels Dan B., Hopital Universitaire des Enfants Reine Fabiola, Neurology, Brussels, Belgium are associated with autism itself. Finally, evidence of steroid hormone dysregulation in autism and their family relatives is reviewed. B. Dan, G. Ronen, E. Racine, P. Rosenbaum - The field of neurodisability has changed and evolved considerably in the 21st century. New concepts have been promoted, including in the framework for health in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. This changing climate has led to increasing recognition of ethical dilemmas in many aspects of the field, including in terms of uncertainty of diagnosis and prognosis, of decision-making and developing partnerships with families and young people with impairments, and with colleagues, and of course with ethicists. In particular, it has become important to identify and address ethical issues pertaining to daily (clinical) life and therefore to revisit the interface between good clinical practice and ethical practice in order to try to articulate the ethical dimensions of clinical practice, and to reflect on how ethical principles should inform the further development, structure, concepts, and content of the field. Keynote Lectures 1 Abstracts of the 26th Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability July 3-5, 2014, Vienna, Austria Parallel Sessions PS03-112 Behavioural problems in former preterm infants Lectures and summaries not listed have not been available at time of publication. Ferrari F., University Hospital of Modena, Division of Neonatology and NICU, Modena, Italy Arpi E., University Hospital of Modena, Division of Neonatology and NICU, Modena, PS01-104 The body and the mind in the course of childhood development Italy Brainin E., Vienna, Austria Preterm birth may affect both cerebral and mental development, even when the child is free from severe impairments. In the last decades whilst the rate of cerebral palsy The Ego is foremost a bodily ego, (Freud, 1923), it is the bodily experience which or sensory deficiencies have decreased, the rate of intellectual disability have moulds the formation of the Ego, the psychic apparatus in the child. This is to show in remained unchanged and behavioural problems and learning disorders are still the following examples and theoretical reflections. The child’s awareness of body and common conditions at school age in preterm-born children. Despite mental health Self is centred on it’s bodily experiences embedded in his experiences of object outcomes belong to the so-called “high-prevalence and low-severity” disabilities, they relations to the care-takers. may heavily impact on daily life of children and their families. The term “behavioural problems” include a wide spectrum of difficulties that change in type and nature PS01-105 Freud and neurology – Hierarchies in mind and behaviour during development : sleep, eating, sensory sensitivity problems and somatic symptoms may appear in infancy (0-2 y), followed in later childhood by attention or Wiest G., Österreichische Gesellschaft für Neurologie, AG Schwindel, Vienna, Austria emotional problems such as anxiety and depression, autism spectrum disorders, hyperactive/aggressive behavioural and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). The history of the sciences of the human brain and mind has been characterized from At school age the prevalent disorder is the inattentive subtype of ADHD with an the beginning by two parallel traditions. The prevailing theory that still influences the estimate prevalence of 7 to 23%, followed by emotional disorders such as anxiety 9% way current neuroimaging techniques interpret brain function, can be traced back to or peer relationship problems and autism spectrum disorders (3.6-8%). classical localizational theories, which in turn go back to early phrenological