Conference Schedule (Legacy)

Day 1

Thursday September 25th

Morning Session | 8:00 AM – 1:15 PM EST

8:00 – 8:30 AM
Registration & Breakfast

8:30 – 9:00 AM
Opening Remarks: Welcome and Introduction

Theme 1: Measuring Consciousness Across the Dementia Spectrum

Chair: Daniel Bor

Time Speaker Title
9:00 – 9:30 AM Pedro Mediano Consciousness and dementia: Quantitative measures and computational models
9:30 – 10:00 AM Lorina Naci What can be learned for dementia from neuroimaging measures for disorders of consciousness
10:00 – 10:30 AM Jacob Sitt From Coma to Dementia: EEG Biomarkers for Diagnosis and Prognosis
10:30 – 11:00 AM Peter Fried  Altered spectral power across the spectrum of AD

11:00 – 11:15 AM
Coffee Break

Theme 2: Assessing Residual Self-Awareness and Subjective Experience in Severe Dementia

Chair: Jonathan Huntley

Time Speaker Title
11:15 – 11:45 AM
11:45 – 12:15 PM Jonathan Huntley  Assessing visual awareness in mild, moderate and advanced   Alzheimer’s Disease
12:15 – 12:45 PM Jason Karlawish Caregiver Accounts of Lucid Episodes in Persons With Advanced Dementia
12:45 – 1:15 PM David Fisher Are They In There?: Inferring Consciousness in Unresponsive Patients

1:15 – 2:00 PM
Lunch Break

Afternoon Session | 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST

2:00 – 3:00 PM
Data Blitz

Giacomo Bertazzoli

  • Assessing Cortical Complexity of network-targeted TMS-EEG in Alzheimer’s Disease.

Brenna Hagan

  • Assessing Consciousness in Alzheimer’s Disease with the TMS-EEG Perturbation Complexity Index.

Dragana Manasova

  • Integrating electrophysiology and neuroimaging to study consciousness: lessons from DoC with applications to dementia.

Julia Rathmann-Bloch

  • Experiential states in healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease.

Keenan Down

  • Hierarchical alterations of information dynamics in Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment

Shana Stites

  • Mental Time Travel and Subjective Memory Function: An exploratory analysis of subjective retrospective memory function and future time perspective

3:00 – 3:15 PM
Coffee Break

Theme 3: Comparing Disordered Consciousness in Dementia Subtypes

Chair: Andrew Budson

Time Speaker Title
3:15 – 3:45 PM Andrew Budson Alzheimer’s disease and consciousness
3:45 – 4:15 PM Emma Rhodes
4:15 – 4:45 PM Angeliki Zarkali Using neuroimaging to understand visual hallucinations in Lewy Body Dementia

4:45 – 5:00 PM
Summary Discussion and Close

Evening
Invite-only Dinner

Day 2

Friday September 26th

Morning Session | 8:30 AM – 12:45 PM EST

8:30 – 9:00 AM
Welcome & Coffee

Theme 4: Understanding Self-Awareness and Metacognition in Dementia

Chair: Jason Karlawish

Time Speaker Title
9:00 – 9:30 AM Dan Mograbi Anosognosia and self-awareness in dementia
9:30 – 10:00 AM Steve Fleming Measures and models of metacognition
10:00 – 10:30 AM Tristan Bekinschtein

10:30 – 10:45 AM
Coffee Break

10:45 – 11:45 AM
Data Blitz 2

Katherine Turk

  • Mindfulness Meditation as an Intervention in Preserving Conscious Awareness in Mild Cognitive Impairment

Isaiah Kletenik

  • Immune to illusion: wisdom with aging

David Zhou

  • Towards new methods for investigating mechanisms of neural dynamics in aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and states of consciousness

Justin Clapp

  • Evaluating efficacy / evaluating mind: A qualitative study of anti-amyloid treatment

Lauren Fisher

  • The importance of contextual factors when investigating disorders of consciousness

11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
Funder Talks

Main Conference Close | 12:30 – 12:45 PM EST

1:30 – 6:00 PM
Invite-only Grant Workshop and Planning Session

All Speakers, Funders, and Invited Guests

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM |  MEASURING CONSCIOUSNESS ACROSS THE DEMENTIA SPECTRUM

Chair: Daniel Bor

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM |  ASSESSING RESIDUAL SELF-AWARENESS AND SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE IN SEVERE DEMENTIA

Chair: Jonathan Huntley

3:30 PM – 4:30 PM |  COMPARING DISORDERED CONSCIOUSNESS IN DEMENTIA SUBTYPES

Chair: Andrew Budson

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM |  UNDERSTANDING SELF-AWARENESS AND METACOGNITION IN DEMENTIA

Chair: Jason Karlawish

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM SUMMARY

6:00 PM | CLOSE