Delirium and dementia are major threats to the mental health of older people and major public health concerns.
Delirium (also called "acute confusional state") develops rapidly as response to an acute somatic disorder, and the symptoms may be dramatic. Research from the later years has revealed that the prognosis of delirium is much more serious than previously anticipated, and a high fraction of delirium patients develop dementia.
Dementia, on the other side, develops gradually and over years, and is a chronic disorder with devastating consequences for the individual, the family and the society. There are obvious clinical and epidemiological connections between delirium and dementia, but the pathophysiological mechanisms involved remains to be understood.
Programme
- 1300 - 1310 Welcome. Professor Farrukh A. Chaudhry, Chair of the Delirium-Dementia Research Consortium. Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo
- 1310 - 1320 Delirium and dementia - clinical similarities and differences. Professor Torgeir Bruun Wyller, Co-Chair of the Research Consortium. Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo and Department of Geriatric Medicine, Oslo University Hospital
- 1320 - 1330 Bridging the gap between basal neuroscience and clinical medicine? My plans for a three year postdoctoral fellowship. Leiv Otto Watne, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oslo
- 1330 - 1355 Animal models of delirium and dementia. Colm Cunningham, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Dublin
- 1355 - 1420 Quantitative neuropathology in clinico-pathological correlative studies. Johannes Attems, Professor of Neuropathology, Director Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource, Newcastle University
- 1420 - 1440 Coffee break
- 1440 - 1505 Is there acute brain injury in delirium and acute medical illness? Alasdair MJ MacLullich, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, The University of Edinburgh
- 1505 - 1530 Current status of CSF biomarkers of neuroinflamation. Henrik Zetterberg, Professor of Neurochemistry, The Sahlgrenska Acedmy, University of Gothenburg
- 1530 - 1545 Clonidine and aberrant stress responses. Vegard Bruun Wyller, Professor of Pediatric Cardiology, Akershus University Hospital and University of Oslo
- 1545 - 1555 Role of the CSF biomarkers beta-amyloid, tau and p-tau in delirium. Ane-Victoria Idland, phd-student, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oslo
- 1555 - 1605 Blood-brain-barrier integrity and S100B in dementia and delirium. Karen Roksund Hov, phd-student, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oslo
- 1605 - 1615 CSF levels of CRP, IL-6 and IL-6 receptor in dementia and delirium. Bjørn Erik Neerland, phd-student, Department of Geriatric Medicine, University of Oslo
- 1615 - 1635 Coffee break
- 1635 - 1655 Neuronal signaling in the pathogenesis of delirium and dementia. Professor Farrukh A. Chaudhry, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo
- 1655 - 1710 Legionella as a model disease for cognitive consequences of infections. Bjørnar Hassel, Senior Scientist, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, and Senior Consultant, Dept. of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital
- 1710 - 1725 Neuropathological substrates for dementia and delirium. Professor Nenad Bogdanovic, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo and Department of Geriatric Medicine, Oslo University Hospital
- 1725 - 1735 The Oslo Delirium Research Group. Professor Torgeir Bruun Wyller
- 1735 End