Program Glossary “BEST OF” SCIENCE SESSION: A platform session that brings together the top four scoring abstracts in a particular topic, as rated by the topic reviewers. Offers an opportunity to interact with the author in a smaller setting at the conclusion of the session. COURSE: (C) An education program using one or more teaching methods, including didactic, interactive, and case-based. CURBSIDE CONSULTS: A casual walk-up opportunity to discuss your most challenging cases with experts in a variety of disease states. Even if you don’t have a case to discuss, come to listen and learn from other cases. EMERGING SCIENCE SESSION: A special session emphasizing ongoing neuroscience research of an extraordinary nature, which warrants expedited presentation. Key aspects of the research must have taken place after October 24, 2016. E-POSTER SESSION: A group of abstracts presented on an on-site, interactive touch screen allowing attendees to explore the research more deeply. EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING AREAS: Interactive new ways of learning that will engage you intellectually, emotionally, and socially and offer you fresh ideas to help you personally and professionally. INVITED SCIENCE SESSION: An AAN platform session featuring authors giving encore presentations of top abstracts previously presented at a subspecialty meeting. LEADERSHIP UNIVERSITY: Live courses focused on building select skills to enhance leadership abilities. NEUROSCIENCE IN THE CLINIC (N): A two-hour session featuring a mix of scientists and clinicians actively engaged in lively case discussion to integrate scientific research with clinical application. Scientists will introduce and provide background on a case and clinicians will apply the case to a patient. Sessions will feature abstract presentations related to the topic. Sessions end with a panel discussion. PLENARY SESSION: A premier general session highlighting the latest advances in neuroscience.
POSTER SESSION (P): A series of thematic abstract presentations in poster format presented Sunday through Friday with evening stand-by times for authors. POSTER DISCUSSION SESSION (P): A group of abstracts presented as both a data blitz and a poster. A moderator leads attendees in discussion and stimulates conversation based on the content of the selected posters. SCIENTIFIC PLATFORM SESSION (S): A group of abstracts covering a similar topic presented in an oral format. Presentations are eight minutes in length with four minutes of question and answer. Each session concludes with 25 minutes of a discussant bringing additional context to one or more of the abstracts. SECTION TOPIC CONTROVERSIES: A lively format with AAN Sections debating controversies related to specific section topics and featuring two speakers arguing a side of the topic, followed by a rebuttal and question and answer period. VIRTUAL POSTERS: Electronic versions of posters in the physical poster hall, featuring an online, interactive, fully searchable database.