Scientific Program

Wednesday, May 29

Opening Ceremony

The President of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson

Ásta Möller, member of parliament, and professor Elías Ólafsson



13:30-14:30 Hall 1

NMSC Lecture

Chair Benedikz JEG

Fredrikson S



13:30 Multiple sclerosis and its treatment: Lessons from history, L 01

literature, and science

McDonald I



14:30-15:00 Coffee



15:00-17:00 Hall 1

Multiple sclerosis I

Chair Benedikz JEG

Fredrikson S



15:00 The prognosis after an optic neuritis L 02

Fredriksen J

15:25 Prognostic possibilities in MS L 03

Fredrikson S

15:50 Cognitive aspects in MS L 04

Hämäläine P

16:15 Cortical pathology in MS L 05

Bø L

16:40 Panel discussion



15:00-17:00 Hall 4

Nursing Session I

Chair Thoroddsen Á



15:00 Scandinavian cooperation between neurologic nurses L 06

Jämsä T

15:30 Quality of life in Parkinson's disease L 07

Hagell P

16:15 Quality of MS-care in Sweden L 08

Myr Å

Thursday, May 30

08:00-08:45 Landspítali University Hospital Hringbraut

Board meeting of the Nordic Neurological Association



08:30-11:30 Hall 2

Multiple sclerosis II

Chair: Benedikz JEG

Fredrikson S



08:30 The Danish interferon-beta experience L 09

Sørensen PS

09:00 Genetics of MS in Iceland L 10

Gulcher J



09:30-10:00 Coffee



10:00 Follow-up on MS patients treated with interferon beta and the L 11

importance of neutralising antibodies

Myh KM

10:30 MS in Iceland in the last century with particular emphasis on L 12

the natural history

Benedikz JEG

11:00 Panel discussion



11:30-12:30 Lunch at Radisson SAS Saga Hotel-Súlnasalur



08:30-11:30 Hall 4

Nursing Session-Stroke I

Chair Guðlaug Rakel Guðjónsdóttir, Iceland



8:30 Major nursing issues in the rehabilitation of stroke patients L 13

Kirkevold M



09:30-10:00 Coffee



10:00 Surviving to thriving. Lesa meira

L01 - Multiple sclerosis and its treatment: Lessons from history, literature, and science

McDonald I



Queen Square, London, United Kingdom



Abstract not received. Lesa meira

P01 - Hyperhomocysteinemia. A Risk Factor of Stroke and Recurrent Stroke

Brander T, Christensen H, Gideon R, Truelsen T, Boysen G



Department of Neurology and Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Bispebjerg Hospital, Denmark



Objective: The levels of s-homocystein (s-hcy) were compared in patients with transient ischemic attachs (TIA), ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. Lesa meira