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Last chance to register for the September 3rd Elearning Day on Movement Disorders featuring experts ( @aanmember@twitter.com @eaneurology@twitter.com @afaneurology@twitter.com @movedisorder@twitter.com) from around the world. Learn More and Register here: https://meet-in.tv/wfn22/ #movementdisorders #WFNAFANElearning

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@WGrisold@twitter.com points out importance of quality assurance of this meeting. Please fill out the questionnaire.

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Burden of disease vs. distribution of physicians in #Africa
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Wonderful summary on the initiation of @AFANeurology@twitter.com by Lawrence Tucker
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Great idea: student from #Dschibuti invited to give his view on the day.
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Q/A collaboration in #COVID19 can be done virtually? - The main obvious bottleneck is the manpower. Individual cases may be done on an ad hoc bases. The world has suddenly become a small place. There are plenty of colleagues to help

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Maria Benabdeljlil (AFAN - Morocco) presented a fascinating lecture on
Diagnosing and managing non-epileptic #seizures (PNES) in #LMIC
also referring to
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/epi.12106
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Melody Asukile (AFAN - #Zambia) scientific evaluation of the #eeg #elearning implemented showed both increased competence and increased perception of self-competence.

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Melody Asukile (AFAN - Zambia) manpower on #LMIC in #Africa very low (0.04 per 100,000 population). To ensure #EEG knowledge a web-based training had been established.

https://studyeegonline.com/

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Birinus Ezeala-Adikaibe (AFAN - Nigeria) important to have and collect health care data (#epilepsy surveillance). Countries should domesticate guidelines for management of #epilepsy - there is a national epilepsy guideline in #Nigeria
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Birinus Ezeala-Adikaibe (AFAN - Nigeria) on
Effective #epilepsy service in a poorly resourced #Africa setting
#WHO level 1 - nurses, teachers need to be involved as well. For those not responding to 1, referral to l 2 and 3 is needed.
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Interesting survey quoted on access to diagnostic and therapeutic facilities for psychogenic nonepileptic seizures

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/epi.13952
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Video taken by family may be helpful - but mainly if the video captures the beginning of the event.

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Video taken by family may be helpful - but mainly if the video captures the beginning of the event.

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gold standard is #EEG during the event.
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Maria Benabdeljlil (AFAN - Morocco) presents a fascinating lecture on
Diagnosing and managing #psychogenic, non-epileptic #seizures (PNES) in #LMIC
also referring to
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/epi.12106
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James Butler (AFAN - S Africa) on

Making the case for #epilepsy surgery in #LMIC - in refractory epilepsy surgery has to be taken into account. Nice overview on the current literature.

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Wonderful session just ended, it will continue at 2:45
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Gretchen Birbeck (AAN - USA/Zambia) Management of #Epilepsy in special populations: #Women; #HIV
Tremendous lecture giving two top 10 lists on what to avoid in both groups.
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Jo Wilmshurst (ILAE/AFAN - South Africa) Managing seizures and behavioural problems in children with #epilepsy in #Africa
Special focus on the nees of understandable information and focused early-onset epilepsy education
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1525505020305618
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Roland Eastman (AFAN – South Africa) shortly summarizes the new classification
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920121117303819?via%3Dihub
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