2nd Annual Summit on
Neuro Science and Neurological Disorders

My name is Andrea Bonzini and I am the founder and president of the Argentine Association for Tourette Syndrome. I have a daughter with tourette who is now a 25-year-old woman and I am a teacher, therefore I know how to fight within the family and within the school in the face of the difficulties that are going to appear with tourette. This year the association celebrates 10 years, on our anniversary I can see going back years how with diffusion and awareness we were advancing more in Argentina. It costs a lot and will continue to cost but step by step we are moving forward. Our job is to guide families who present with the logical concerns of seeing that their child begins with tics and nobody guides them, even their pediatrician tells them that this is going to happen, that all children have tics and they refer us to a psychologist, the one who tells us that it is something emotional and it will pass... All of us who are here know that it is a possibility that this is the case, but we also know that they should know more about the tourette in order to follow up and see the evolution together with the observation and reports of parents and teachers. We are concerned that teachers do not know what we are talking about when with some tools and resources to use in the class it would be easier for the children to go through their school day. We are also concerned that schools ask families for children to have a therapeutic companion when we know that children with Tourette's are self-sufficient if teachers adapt their teaching methodology with them. We receive families who, having the diagnosis after a long time of searching, do not know what to do and do not know what we are talking about when we talk about tourette. Unfortunately, many times the doctors they turn to are not the warmest in that profession and everything happens very quickly, they give them the diagnosis, a medication and... see you next month. As parents, receiving the news that your child has a neurological disease or condition that still has no cure is very difficult to understand. From the association we contain them, we tell them what it is like to live with the tourette at home and in the family. We guide parents to see the right professionals, who know what they are talking about and who do not charge them a fortune. We guide them to get the cud to be able to face the expenses of therapies and medication. Now, I wonder, before in our country there was a medication that was excellent for tics, a few years ago it no longer has a license for Latin America, it was not expensive and effective.

Neuroscience, Tourette syndrome

Domenico Praticò graduated from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, School of Medicine, where is also completed a residency program in Internal Medicine. He continued his post-graduation training as a Research fellow of the Center for Cardiovascular Science at the University College Dublin, Ireland. Next, he pursued a post-doctoral fellowship in the biology of aging at the University of Pennsylvania, where shortly after he was promoted to Assistant Professor then Associate Professor. In 2007 he joined Temple University, School of Medicine, as Associate Professor and Director of the Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Laboratory. Since 2011 he is Professor of Neural Sciences at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine. In December 2017, he was nominated the Scott Richards North Star Foundation Chair in Alzheimer’s research and appointed as the founding Director of the Alzheimer’s Center at Temple. His main area of investigation is clinical pharmacology with a special focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in brain health, brain aging and the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and Frontotemporal dementia. The main goal of his work has always been translating studies of the basic biology of brain aging and neurodegeneration into new therapeutics by implementing a comprehensive experimental approach which combines in vitro and in vivo models as well as human studies. Internationally known for his work on Alzheimer’s disease, brain health, aging and neurodegeneration, Dr. Pratico has authored over 290 original articles in high impact journals, and 25 chapters in thematic books. During his career, he has received many awards for his research accomplishments including the Irvine H. Page Award, Neuroscience Education and Research Award, Zenith Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, and Dorothy Dillon Eweson Lectureship from the American Federation for Aging Research, and the Paul W. Eberman Faculty Research Award and The Marconi Science Award.

Alzheimer's disease

Prof. Dr. Alireza Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Full Distinguished Professor and Academic Tenure of Chemistry and also Enrico Fermi Distinguished Chair in Molecular Spectroscopy at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management, Oncology, Human Cancer Tissues and Synchrotron Radiation from Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and also in Nanochemistry and Modern Molecular Electronic–Structure Computations Theory from California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. His research interests include Biophysical Chemistry, Biomolecular and Biomedical Spectroscopy, Quantum Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Modern Electronic Structure Computations, Theoretical Chemistry, Mathematical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modelling, Ab initio & Density Functional Methods, Molecular Structure, Biochemistry, Molecular Simulation, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Oncology, Synchrotron Radiation, Synchrocyclotron Radiation, LASER, Anti–Cancer Nano Drugs, Nano Drugs Delivery, ATR–FTIR Spectroscopy, Raman Spectroscopy, Intelligent Molecules, Molecular Dynamics, Biosensors, Biomarkers, Molecular Diagnostics, Numerical Chemistry, Nucleic Acids, DNA/RNA Monitoring, DNA/RNA Hypermethylation & Hypomethylation, Human Cancer Tissues, Human Cancer Cells, Tumors, Cancer Tissues, Cancer Cells, etc. He has participated at more than seven hundred reputed international conferences, seminars, webinars, congresses, summits, meetings, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Indexing (ISI), Medline/PubMed and Scopus Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Romania, Greece, Russia, Estonia, Ukraine, Turkey, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, South Africa, Egypt, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, South Korea, China, India, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor and so on heretofore. He has a history of several years of teaching for college students and various disciplines and trends in different universities. Moreover, he has been a senior advisor in various industries and factories. He is expert in many computer programs and programming languages. Hitherto, he has authored more than twenty books and book chapters in different fields of Chemistry.s. Heretofore, he has multiple editorial duties in many reputed international and peer–reviewed journals, books and publishers. Hitherward, he is a member of more than seven hundred reputed international academic–scientific–research institutes around the world. It should be noted that he is currently board member of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists (WATOC), member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, member of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB), Rockville, Maryland, USA, the President of the American International Standards Institute (AISI), Irvine, California, USA and also Head of Cancer Research Institute (CRI) and Director of the BioSpectroscopy Core Research Laboratory (BCRL) at California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA.

Oncology Laser

Humberto Mendes Faria Rodrigues Bachelor and Master in Clinical and Health Psychology at Aveiro University (Portugal) and internship in Coimbra Hospital University Centre. Also performed a research project in Biofeedback/Neurofeedback by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Is currently working in the field of Cognitive Neurorehabilitation. Concomitantly, made several national and international communications in various Congress as Guest Speaker in the field of Neuroscience and/or Psychology and Editor in several Scientific Journals. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychology and Neuroscience (www.neuropsyjournal.com). Author of several articles in peer review journals. At the moment, is a PhD student in Neuroscience at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Salamanca – Neurosciences Institute of Castilla y León. Research interests: Experimental Psychology, Neuropsychology and Biological Rhythms, particularly in: Assessment and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Drug Abuse and Addiction, Behavioural Neuroscience, Behavioural Management, Biofeedback/Neurofeedback, Sleep Disorders, Pain Disorders.

Neuropsychology and Biological Rhythms,Behavioural Neuroscience

Dr. Uqbah Iqbal is a Socioeconomic Researcher at Research for Social Advancement. Winning Second Place in Malaysian Historical Essay Writing Competition 2013, he was the recipient of Research University Fellowship Scheme, Graduate on Time Award and Outstanding Student Award from Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities as well as the Youngest Ph.D. in History Holder and the only Malaysian achieved a Ph.D. in History in conjunction with the 43rd Convocation of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. He's authoring notable books/ebooks such as The Historical Development of the Malay Nationalism Before Independence, The Historical Development of the Malay Society Economic Nature During Pre-Colonial Era, The Historical Development of British Investment in Malaya Before the Second World War, The Historical Development of Foreign Investment in the Formation of the Malaysian Economy and Sejarah Pemikiran Pandang Ke Timur: Kepentingan Jepun Dalam Pembangunan Sosio-Ekonomi Malaysia (1906-1980). His publications have appeared in a wide range of international and national journals such as TAWARIKH, SUSURGALUR, Management and Administrative Sciences Review, Social and Basic Sciences Research Review, Jurnal Kemanusiaan, Jurnal Sejarah, Jurnal Pengajian Melayu, Jebat, International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, Asian Social Science and Geografia. He's also actively in the editorial board such as Asian Social Science, International Journal of Art and Literature, International Journal of Archaeology and History, American Journal of Social Sciences, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Arts and Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, History Research and Pratidhwani the Echo. Through his involvement as a reviewer with the Nonfiction Authors Association, 15 of his reviewed books received Awards.

Political,Social and economics history

Dr. Ioannis Mavroudis is a highly respected Consultant Neurologist and Senior Lecturer in Neurology, recognized for his extensive knowledge and expertise in the areas of mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and functional neurological disorders (FND). With a steadfast dedication to understanding the complexities of the human brain, Dr. Mavroudis has made significant contributions to the field of neurology through his research, clinical practice, and academic endeavors. Dr. Mavroudis holds a PhD in Neuromorphology, which has provided him with a deep understanding of the intricate structures and connections within the brain. His specialized training in diagnostic neuropathology has further enhanced his ability to diagnose and investigate various neurological conditions with exceptional precision. In addition to his neurology background, Dr. Mavroudis holds diplomas in Criminology and Forensic Medicine, allowing him to approach his work with a comprehensive perspective that encompasses both medical and legal aspects. One of Dr. Mavroudis's primary research interests lies in the exploration of biomarkers, neurodegeneration, and neuronal morphology. His groundbreaking investigations have yielded valuable insights into the identification and characterization of biomarkers associated with mild traumatic brain injuries, shedding light on the underlying mechanisms of these conditions. Dr. Mavroudis's research has been instrumental in advancing diagnostic techniques and treatment approaches in the field of neurology. With a remarkable publication record, Dr. Mavroudis has published over 60 peer-reviewed papers in prestigious international journals, solidifying his position as a leading authority in the realm of neurology. In addition to his numerous research articles, he has authored and edited books that have become valuable resources in the field. Dr. Mavroudis's scholarly works encompass a wide range of topics, reflecting his broad expertise and comprehensive understanding of neurology. His research papers delve into areas such as mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), functional neurological disorders (FND), biomarkers, neurodegeneration, and neuronal morphology. Through his publications, Dr. Mavroudis has significantly advanced the knowledge base within these domains, shaping the field and providing insights that have far- reaching implications for clinical practice and patient care. Notably, Dr. Mavroudis's authored and edited books have made significant contributions to the academic literature in neurology. These authoritative texts serve as essential references for medical professionals, researchers, and students alike. By sharing his expertise and insights in book form, Dr. Mavroudis has demonstrated his commitment to disseminating knowledge and fostering further advancements in the field. Beyond his publications, Dr. Mavroudis continues to actively engage with the international scientific community. He frequently participates as a speaker and presenter at conferences and symposiums, where he shares his research findings and clinical expertise. Dr. Mavroudis's presentations are highly regarded for their depth and clarity, offering valuable perspectives on the latest developments in neurology. Alongside his research pursuits, Dr. Mavroudis is actively involved in teaching and mentoring aspiring neurologists. As a Senior Lecturer in Neurology, he shares his expertise and passion for the subject, guiding and inspiring the next generation of medical professionals. Dr. Mavroudis's commitment to education and professional development has earned him a reputation as an exceptional educator and mentor within the neurology community.

Traumatic Brain Injury , Neuromuscular disease

Brandon Lucke-Wold was born and raised in Colorado Springs, CO. He graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Neuroscience and distinction in honors from Baylor University. He completed his MD/PhD, Master’s in Clinical and Translational Research, and the Global Health Track at West Virginia University School of Medicine. His research focus was on traumatic brain injury, neurosurgical simulation, and stroke. At West Virginia University, he also served as a health coach for the Diabetes Prevention and Management program in Morgantown and Charleston, WV, which significantly improved health outcomes for participants. In addition to his research and public health projects, he is a co-founder of the biotechnology company Wright-Wold Scientific, the pharmaceutical company CTE cure, and was a science advocate on Capitol Hill through the Washington Fellow’s program. He has also served as president of the WVU chapters for the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, Neurosurgery Interest group, and Erlenmeyer Initiative Entrepreneur group. In addition, he has served as vice president for the graduate student neuroscience interest group, Nu Rho Psi Honor Society, and medical students for global health. He was an active member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He is currently a member of the UF House Staff Council, Positive Culture Committee, Quality Improvement Committee, Board of Directors Alachua County Medical Society, and Accreditation Requirements Review Committee. He is married to Noelle Lucke-Wold and has two children. As a family, they enjoy running with their dogs, rock climbing, and traveling. In his spare time, Brandon frequently runs half marathons and 10ks together with is wife. Brandon also enjoys reading, playing piano, discussing philosophy, and playing chess. He is currently a Pgy5 neurosurgery resident at University of Florida with pursuing endovascular enfolded training and was awarded the Dempsey Cerebrovascular Research Fellowship.

Neurosurgery