8^th Global Experts Meeting on Advances in Neurology and Neuropsychiatry August 27-28, 2018 Tokyo, Japan

James Barber qualified with MB BS from University College London in 1999. He has been working in Neurosurgery since 2005, having been a Consultant in The Royal London Hospital for the past 2 years. His main areas of practice are: Neurotrauma (specifically the management of patients with prolonged post-traumatic disorders of consciousness), Neuromodulation (Epilepsy and Affective Disorder), Complex CSF-Flow Disorders and Craniofacial Reconstruction. He has published the first case series in the U.K. of the implantation of a wireless intracranial pressure monitor and is setting up a trial to look at the potential benefits of VNS in minimally conscious subjects.

His main areas of practice are: Neurotrauma (specifically the management of patients with prolonged post-traumatic disorders of consciousness), Neuromodulation (Epilepsy and Affective Disorder), Complex CSF-Flow Disorders and Craniofacial Reconstruction.

Dr KARANIKAS Evangelos, is a military psychiatrist servicing in 424 General Military Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece. Head of the Research and Education Department of the Psychiatric Clinic. Scientific Associate of 2nd University Psychiatric Department, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece. Research Fellow of Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Center, Australia and Lecturer in Rural Medical School, Toowoomba, University of Queensland, Australia.

His research interests focus on neuro-endocrine and immunological mechanisms in Psychosis.

Ron Chabot is a healthcare consultant, patient advocate & futurist in Boston for people suffering from Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and Substance Abuse Disorder (SUD). He has an extensive career as an executive leading medical device and healthcare IT companies, particularly in the areas of neuroscience, pain management, regenerative medicine, tele-medicine & artificial intelligence. Working with pioneers in the areas of epilepsy surgery, cortical stimulation & functional brain mapping, Ron has co-developed and commercialized devices that have helped advance these fields In 2007, Ron’s life was derailed by Opioid & substance abuse addiction and it took him the better part of a decade to regain his life back. Understanding the human brain’s abilities to re-wire itself under the most adverse events & conditions which can lead toward cognitive, behavioral and biologically improvements; Ron is now developing new evidence-based therapies that will be broadly disseminated using advanced technology. In a pandemic where 175 people a day die of opioid overdoes just in the US, he hopes to have his firm’s offering of digitally-assisted patient engagement and educational tools be made accessible for the tens or hundreds of millions suffering, most receiving no treatment, or inadequate treatment.

The role that neuroplasticity plays in substance use disorder (SUD) and Opioid use disorder (OUD) and promising therapies & technologies that address this. Discussion on Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) treatment for substance use disorder (SUD) and Opioid use disorder (OUD).

Professor WK Tang was appointed to professor in the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2011. His main research areas are Addictions and Neuropsychiatry in Stroke. Professor Tang has published over 100 papers in renowned journals, and has also contributed to the peer review of 40 journals. He has secured over 20 major competitive research grants, including Health and Medical Research Fund, reference number: 02130726. Health and Medical Research Fund, reference number: 01120376. National Natural Science Foundation of China, reference number: 81371460. General Research Fund, reference number: 474513. General Research Fund, reference number: 473712. He has served the editorial boards of five scientific journals. He was also a recipient of the Young Researcher Award in 2007, awarded by the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Stroke, Substance abuse, Postnatal depression

Dr Krupa Torne is among the few super specialists who have been internationally trained in the field of Paediatric Neurology. At present she is heading the department of Neuro sciences at Surya Childrens multispecialty Hospital in Mumbai, India. She has completed her Fellowship in Paediatric Neurology and Epilepsy from Maharashtra University Health Sciences at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Mumbai. She has had a brief stint at the University College London Hospital, a premier academic institution cum hospital in the UK. She has been trained in Paediatric Neurology at Birmingham Children's Hospital where she successfully completed her International Fellowship in Paediatric Neurology, Epilepsy and Neurorehabilitation. To complement her advanced training in Paediatric Neurology she has completed many prestigious International courses like British Paediatric Epilepsy Training Course, British Paediatric Movement Disorder Training Course in UK. She has also been trained for Ketogenic diet for drug resistant childhood epilepsies at the Asian Institute of Ketogenic Diet. Dr Torne has many accolades to her name which complements her meticulous and explicate personality. She is an invaluable Editorial Board Member of Journal of Neuroscience and brain Imaging in London UK. She was honoured by International Bursary from European Paediatric Neurology Society with an opportunity to attend one of the prestigious courses in Paediatric Neuromuscular disorder and Neonatal Neurology at Budapest in Hungary. She was invited to attend the valuable Movement Disorder International Winter School Course by Movement Disorder International society at Catania in Italy. As a feather in her cap she was invited as a Chief Guest in World Congress of Anatomist held in Gadag Institute of Medical Sciences in Karnataka and International Paediatric Conference held in Egypt. She has to her credit valuable publications in reputed peer reviewed International Journals. She has presented many national and international papers in Cambridge, Birmingham, Italy, France and Hungary. She is affiliated to more than 15 eminent International and National Paediatric Neurology and Epilepsy associations.

She is a recipient of MRCPCH UK, an internationally acclaimed medical qualification. Her research interest is in complex paediatric epilepsies, ketogenic diet and paediatric movement disorder.