Each day is composed of Topic Sessions running parallel in two streams. Each Topic Session contains 3 invited talks - a clinical Teaching talk, a Basic Science Research presentation and a Translational Research presentation. Each Topic Session will also feature 2 ‘data blitz’ presentations selected from submitted abstracts. All times are GMT. Thursday 4th March 2021 Day One 1000 WELCOME & INTRODUCTION Dimitri Kullmann, Masud Husain, Anne Rosser, David Sharp 1020 COGNITIVE NEUROGENETICS Chair: Masud Husain Chair: Nicholas Wood Executive functions and the Teaching talk: ​ Teaching talk​: TBC Dysexecutive syndrome (Masud Husain) Basic Research presentation:​ TBC Neural and Basic Research presentation: ​ physiological correlates of social cognition: Translational Research presentation: TBC ​ From the lab to the clinic (Fiona Kumfor) ​ Apathy Translational Research presentation: ​ and impulsivity (James Rowe) 1140 Break 1200 EPILEPSY NEURODEGENERATIVE Chair: Dimitri Kullmann Chair: Anne Rosser and Sarah Tabrizi Teaching talk: ​Clinical and molecular genetics Teaching talk: ​Genomic analyses of of epilepsies and the push to precision neurodegenerative diseases​ ​ ​(John Hardy) medicine (Sam Berkovic) Basic Research presentation: The cellular phase ​ Basic Research presentation: ​Neurophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease ​(Bart de Strooper) at the ictal transition: summary of evidence Translational Research presentation: New from human and animal recordings (Catherine ​ Genetic Therapies for Huntington’s disease Schevon) (Sarah Tabrizi) Translational Research presentation: ​Gene therapy for focal epilepsy; the path to translation (Matthew Walker) ​ 1320 Break 1340 HEADACHE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Chair: Peter Goadsby Chair: David Sharp Teaching talk: ​Using the Neurobiology of Teaching talk: ​TBC ​(David Sharp) Migraine to take a better history: premonitory Basic Research presentation: The far-reaching symptoms (Peter Goadsby) ​ ​ ​ scope of neuroinflammation following traumatic Basic Research presentation: ​Medication brain injury​ ​(David Loane) overuse headache. From bedside to bench and Translational Research presentation: TBC back again (Philip Holland) ​ ​ ​ ​ Translational Research presentation: Personalized migraine attack prediction and phase definition using a multidimensional approach (Patricia Pozo-Roisch) ​ ​ 1500 Close Each day is composed of Topic Sessions running parallel in two streams. Each Topic Session contains 3 invited talks - a clinical Teaching talk, a Basic Science Research presentation and a Translational Research presentation. Each Topic Session will also feature 2 ‘data blitz’ presentations selected from submitted abstracts. All times are GMT. Friday 5th March 2021 Day Two 1300 BRAIN Editorship Handover Ceremony - Dimitri Kullmann & Masud Husain ​ ​ ​ ​ “A History of BRAIN”​ - Alistair Compston 1345 NERVE STROKE Chair: Mary Reilly Chair: TBC ​ Teaching talk: ​Approach to diagnosing Teaching talk: inherited neuropathies in 2021 (Mary Reilly) Basic Research presentation: Basic Research presentation: New insights ​ Translational Research presentation: into neuropathic pain (David Bennett) Translational Research presentation: Auto-antibodies in immune mediated neuropathies (Luis Querol) 1505 Break 1520 NEUROINFLAMMATION/ MS MOVEMENT DISORDERS Chair: Olga Ciccarelli Chair: Anette Schrag Teaching talk: ​Latest management of MS, Teaching talk: ​Management of Parkinson’s disease including targeted B-cell therapies (Jeffrey (Tony Lang) Bennett) Basic Research presentation: Implications of Basic Research presentation: The role of genetics for pathophysiology of Parkinson’s astrocyte in remyelination (Veronique disease (Anthony Schapira) Miron) Translational Research presentation: Role of the ​ Translational Research presentation: ​Myelin immune system in Parkinson’s Disease (Malu oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) Tansey) antibody associated disease (E. Ann Yeh) 1640 Break 1700 NEUROINFECTION NEUROPSYCHIATRY of PAIN Chair: Tom Solomon Chair: Paul Fletcher Teaching talk: ​Clinical Approach to Patients Teaching talk:​ TBC (Lauren Atlas) with Suspected Encephalitis (Nick Davies) ​ Basic Research presentation: Understanding the ​ Basic Research presentation: ​Disease neural and computational basis of pain: inference, Mechanisms in Encephalitis ​(Benedict learning and adaptive control ​(Flavia Mancini) Michael) Translational Research presentation: TBC (Apkar Translational Research presentation: V Apkarian) Emerging Causes of Brain Infection (Tom Solomon) 1820 Break 1840 COVID NEUROLOGY MUSCLE Chair: Michael Zandi Chair: Michael Hanna Teaching talk: ​Immunology of COVID19 Teaching talk: muscle channelopathies 2021- (TBC) clinical, genetic and management considerations (Mike Hanna) Basic Research presentation: Pathology of COVID19 (TBC) Basic Research presentation: ​The origins of mitochondrial DNA mutations and implications Translational Research presentation: Cognitive aspects of COVID19 (Anna for muscle diseases (Patrick Chinnery) Nordvig) Translational Research presentation: TBC ​ 1955 Conference Close .