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Programme Book B Y OF EHAV D IO TU U S R E A H L T P H R E O N F O Y 1987 – 2017 T T Y E I P C E S O S 20th SSBP International Research Symposium Genetic Disorders and Neurobehavioural Phenotypes Programme Book 14th – 16th September 2017 • Leiden, the Netherlands Save the date! 21st SSBP International Research Symposium will be held in Melbourne, Australia, in August 2018 Registration and abstract submission open: 12th March 2018 2 Deadline for online abstract submission: 22nd April 2018 Deadline for discounted early bird registration: 16th July 2018 Research Symposium: 28th – 29th August 2018 Educational Day: 30th August 2018 Join us in Melbourne, Australia for our 21st Research symposium, the theme will be Translating knowledge of phenotype towards improved outcomes in neurodevelopmental disability See www.ssbpconference.org for further information and details on how to submit an abstract for an 20oralth International or poster SSBP presentation. Research Symposium The Society for the Study 3 of Behavioural Phenotypes 14th – 16th September 2017 The 20th SSBP International Research Symposium Genetic Disorders and Neurobehavioural Phenotypes Leiden, the Netherlands 14th – 16th September 2017, Leiden, the Netherlands Contents Contents Welcome to Leiden ...............................................................................................................................................................................9 Leiden Conference Organisers ...................................................................................................................................................10 Scientific Committee ...........................................................................................................................................................................11 4 The SSBP .......................................................................................................................................................................................................12 Tom Oppé and the Tom Oppé Distinguished Lecture .............................................................................................14 Patricia Howlin and the Patricia Howlin Prize Lecture ............................................................................................15 Sponsors .......................................................................................................................................................................................................16 Keynote Speaker Profiles ................................................................................................................................................................17 Dr Honey Heussler ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................17 Dr Luci Wiggs ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................17 Dr Mark Andermann ......................................................................................................................................................................................................17 Dr Marianne Nordstrøm ..............................................................................................................................................................................................18 Dr Agnies van Eeghen ..................................................................................................................................................................................................18 Dr Andrea Pilotto .............................................................................................................................................................................................................18 Professor Raoul Hennekam .......................................................................................................................................................................................19 Dr Anthony Isles ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................19 Professor Kathrin Thedieck ........................................................................................................................................................................................19 Professor Francjan van Spronsen..........................................................................................................................................................................20 Dr Manuel Schiff .............................................................................................................................................................................................................20 Dr Robin Lachmann ......................................................................................................................................................................................................20 Dr Belinda Barton ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 21 Dr Ines Violante ................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 21 Professor Therese van Amelsvoort ....................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Professor Patricia Howlin ............................................................................................................................................................................................22 Conference Programme ..................................................................................................................................................................23 Educational Day ...............................................................................................................................................................................................................23 Research Symposium .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 24 20th International SSBP Research Symposium Contents Abstracts for Educational day ....................................................................................................................................................28 Keynote 1 & 2: Sleep Disorders in Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disorders. .........................................................28 Talk 1: Intervening with Behavioural Phenotypes Piece by Piece: A Focus on Temper Outbursts Triggered by Change ..........................................................................................................................................................................................29 Talk 2: The Phenomenology of Temper Outbursts in Intellectual Disabilities ...........................................................................30 Talk 3: Turner Syndrome: Mental Health and Social Skills from Childhood to Adolescence ............................................ 31 Talk 4: Worries and Needs of Patients with NF1 or TSC and Their Parents, from Transition to Adulthood ................32 5 Keynote 3: Tracking Hunger-Dependent Food-Cue Biases from Hypothalamus to Cortex ............................................33 Keynote 4: Diet, Obesity and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Williams Syndrome, Down Syndrome and Prader-Willi Syndrome .....................................................................................................................................34 Keynote 5: Growing Up with Genetic Neurodevelopmental Disorders; Management of Problems in the Transitional Age ........................................................................................................................................................................................35 Keynote 6: Ageing Brain, Movement Disorders and Dementia: What is the Link With Monogenic Diseases? ..36 Abstracts for Research Symposium Oral Presentations ........................................................................................ 37 Keynote 7: 30 Years of Research into Behavioural Phenotypes ..........................................................................................................37 Keynote 8: Investigating the Contribution of Imprinted Genes to Neurodevelopmental Disorders .......................38 Talk 5: Intellectual Disability and Copy Number Variants: Mental Health in the IMAGINE ID Cohort .........................39 Talk 6: Integration of Omics Data and Database Knowledge Reveals Downstream Pathways of MECP2 in Rett Syndrome .................................................................................................................................................................................40 Talk 7: Clinical Characterisation
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