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The 50th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Neuropathology

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  • June 4 (Thu)
  • June 5 (Fri)
  • June 6 (Sat)

Technical and Educational Seminars - for Neuropathology Beginners

(June 4, 2009 10:00am〜)

1. Autopsy and brain dissection

Tomoyo Hashimoto (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience)

2. Brain bank

Shigeo Murayama (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology)

3. Virtual slides

Hiroshi Uozaki (University of Tokyo)

4. Conventional tissue staining

Takashi Komori (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience)

5. Rapid specimen preparation and diagnosis

Junko Hirato (Gunma University)

6. Immunohistochemistry

Mitsunori Yamada (Niigata University)

7. Infectious diseases

Masayuki Shintaku (Osaka Red Cross Hospital)

8. Muscle and nerve biopsies

Shiro Matsubara (Tokyo Metropolitan Neurological Hospital)

9. Electron microscopy of brain tumors

Takanori Hirose (Saitama Medical University)

10. Genetic analysis using sectioned tissue

Shinya Tanaka (Hokkaido University)

Symposium: Recent Progress in sporadic ALS

(June 4, 2009 3:00pm〜)

1. Histopathology of ALS

Hitoshi Takahashi (Niigata University)

2. TDP-43 and ALS: pathology

Tetsuaki Arai (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Psychiatry)

3. TDP-43 and ALS: biochemistry

Virginia M.-Y. Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

4. Genetics of ALS

Shoji Tsuji (University of Tokyo)

5. Excitotoxicity in ALS

Shin Kwak (University of Tokyo)

6. Protein synthesis and degradation systems in ALS

Koichi Okamoto (Gunma University)

Slide Sessions

(June 4, 2009 7:00pm〜)

1. Four years-old boy with cerebellar vermian tumor occupying IVth ventricle

Junko Hirato (Gunma University)

2. Eight years-old girl with progressive gait disturbance and myotonia

Sumimasa Yamashita (Kanagawa Children's Medical Center)

3. Tumor of the IIIrd ventricle

Yasuo Sugita (Kurume University)

4. Seventy seven-years old woman with dementia showing atypical MRI imaging

Kenji Ishihara (Showa University)

5. Eighty two-years old woman with multiple mass lesions in brain MRI

Mari Yoshida (Aichi Medical University)

6. Psychomotor seizure at senile age

Yuko Saito (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology)

Presidential Lecture

(June 5, 2009 10:00am〜)

Pursuing the truth of what we see

Kiyomitsu Oyanagi (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience)

Special Lectures: Pathomechanism of Neurodegenerative diseases

(June 5, 2009 10:40am〜)

1. John Q. Trojanowski (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
2. Dennis W. Dickson (Mayo Clinic Jacksonville)

The 50th Anniversary for the Japanese Society of Neuropathology

President of JSNP, Yoshio Hashizume

Chair, Prep. Committee, Kazuo Nagashima

Chair, Exective Committee, Kiyomitsu Oyanagi

The 50th Anniversary Symposium

(June 5, 2009 4:30pm〜)

1. Neuropathology in Europe for these 50 years - Lessons for our future

Akira Hori (Fukushimura Hospital Choju Medical Institute)

2. Neuropathology in United States - Progress and future outlook

Kinuko Suzuki (University of North Carolina; Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology)

3. Fifty years of Japanese Society of Neuropathology - Toward new steps

Yoshio Hashizume (Aichi Medical University)

The 50th Anniversary Memorial Lectures

(June 5, 2009 5:30pm〜)

1. From neurology with love

Ichiro Kanazawa (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry; University of Tokyo)

2. Learning neuropathology for 50 years

Asao Hirano (Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine)

The 50th Anniversary Case Presentations: Diseases established in Japan

(June 6, 2009 10:30am〜)

1. Dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA)

Mitsunori Yamada (Niigata University)

2. Diffuse Lewy body disease

Kenji Kosaka (Yokohama Hoyu Hospital)

3. Nasu-Hakola disease

Minoru Kaneko (Shinshu University)

4. Methylmercury intoxication

Komyo Eto (Jougasaki Hospital Jushindai)

5. HTLV-I-associated myelopathy (HAM)

Shuji Izumo (Kagoshima University)

6. ALS with dementia

Koichi Okamoto (Gunma University)

7. 16q 22.1 linked autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (16q-ADCA)

Kinya Ishikawa and Hidehiro Mizusawa (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)

8. Autosomal recessive juvenile parkinsonism (ARJP; Park2)

Yasuhiro Yamamura (Hiroshima University)

9. Medullepithelioma

Hitoshi Takahashi (Niigata University)

The 50th Anniversary Open Satellite Lectures: To Overcome Depression and Dementia

(June 6, 2009 2:00pm〜)

1. The role of neuropathology

Kiyomitsu Oyanagi (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience)

2. Depression and its relation to pseudo dementia

Naoji Amano (Shinshu University)

3. Dementia and related disorders

Masaaki Matsushita (Tokyo Metroplitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology)

4. For the Enjoyment of Healthy Longevity

Yoshio Hashizume(Aichi Medical University)

The 50th Anniversary Memorial Lectures for High School Students

1. A Search for Mechanism of Brain Damage

Masaki Ueno(Kagawa University)

For Takamatsu High School Students on June 4 and 20, 2009

2. Neuropathology of Alzheimer's Disease

Takeshi Iwatsubo(Tokyo Uiversity)

For Takamatsu Daiichi High School Students on June 5, 2009

The 50th Annual Meeting of JSNP