2017 Annual Meeting AANextra—Tuesday, April 25

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Visit AAN.com Booth to Join the Conversation with Popular Synapse Online Communities New “Best of” Scientific Platform Sessions Provide Perfect Lead-in to Daily Plenary Sessions

Session III Opens 13 Poster This Morning at 8:30,

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Significant Clinical Trials to Be Covered in This Morning’s Clinical Trials Plenary Session Experts will present important clinical topics that affect patient care during this morning’s Clinical Trials Plenary Session. Attendees can expect to learn about the latest updates within several clinical trials conducted over the course of the last year. Effect of Intensive Systolic Blood Pressure Lowering on Hematoma Expansion in Patients with Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Analysis of Antihypertensive Treatment of Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage (ATACH) II Trial Joshua N. Goldstein, MD, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

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Get Up-to-date on Zika Virus at Today’s Neuroscience in the Clinic Session Hear from experts about Zika virus and other neurotropic viruses at today’s Neuroscience in the Clinic Session, which features a mix of scientists and clinicians engaged in lively case discussions to integrate scientific research with clinical application. Cynthia L. Harden, MD, and Elizabeth Donner, MD, FRCPC, at press conference

New SUDEP Guideline Reviewed at Press Conference The AAN held a press conference yesterday in the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center in connection with the publication of its new “Practice Guideline: Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy Incidence Rates and Risk Factors.” The guideline was published online in Neurology ® on Monday, April 24, and in print in Neurology on April 25. The guideline was co-developed with the American Epilepsy Society and endorsed by the International Child Neurology Association. Continued on page 13  u

Neuroscience in the Clinic: Zika Virus: The Global Outbreak of a Neurotropic Virus 1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Coordinators: Allen J. Aksamit, Jr., MD, FAAN; Kiran Thakur, MD

This program will provide updates on recent outbreaks of Zika and other neurologic infections, and the overlap between neurological infections and autoimmune manifestations. The last decade has seen the emergence and re-emergence of several neurotropic infections, including Zika virus, Continued on page 7  u

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