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6th
MAPPING COURSE
BELLVITGE 2023
NEUROSURGERY COURSE:
November 21st-24th 2023

NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL
ASSISTANCE COURSE:
November 22nd-24th 2023

University Hospital of Bellvitge

Feixa Llarga, s/n
L ‘Hospitalet de Llobregat,
Barcelona (Spain)

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COURSE DIRECTOR: SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: DR. JOSÉ LUIS SANMILLÁN

Neurosurgery Department
DR. ANDREU GABARRÓS DR. CARLOS ALARCÓN Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
Chairman Neurosurgery Department
Neurosurgery Department Hospital Mútua de Tarrasa
Brain Mapping Program Director DR. JOANNA SIERPOWSKA
Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge DR. ÀNGELS CAMINS Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit &
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery Neuroradiology Department Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro)
Universitat de Barcelona IDI Bellvitge Dept. of Cognition, Development and
Brain Mapping Program Educational Psychology
Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge Universitat de Barcelona
COURSE CO-DIRECTORS:
DR. XIM CERDÁ-COMPANY
DR. ALEJANDRO FERNÁNDEZ- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
COELLO Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit, ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF
Brain Mapping Program IDIBELL THE NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL
Neurosurgery Department Dept. Of Cognition, Development, and ASSISTANCE COURSE:
Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge Educational Psychology Universitat de
Associate Professor of Anatomy Barcelona DR. ANNA GASA-ROQUÉ
Universitat de Barcelona Neuropsychology Unit
DR. LAURA CONTRERAS Neurology Department
DR. ISABEL FERNÁNDEZ- Neuroanesthesia Coordinator Brain Mapping Program
CONEJERO Anesthesia Department Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
Head of Intraoperative Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
Neurophysiology Unit DR. JOANNA SIERPOWSKA
Neurology Department DR. ANNA GASA-ROQUÉ Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit &
Neuropsychology Unit Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro)
Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
Neurology Department Dept. of Cognition, Development and
Brain Mapping Program Educational Psychology
DR. GERARD PLANS
Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge Universitat de Barcelona
Brain Mapping Program
Neurosurgery Department
DR. LAURA MALDONADO-
Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
MURCIANO
Postdoctoral Researcher COLLABORATORS:
at the Basic Science Department
INVITED SPEAKERS: Universitat Internacional de Catalunya DR. ALBA GÓMEZ-ANDRÉS
Neuropsychology
DR. HUGUES DUFFAU
DR. PABLO NAVAL-BAUDIN Brain Mapping Program
Professor and Chairman
Neuroradiology Department Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit
Neurosurgery Department
IDI Bellvitge IDIBELL
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire
Brain Mapping Program
de Montpellier, France
Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge DR. PABLO LÓPEZ- OJEDA
Neurosurgery Department
DR. EMMANUEL MANDONNET
DR. IMMA RICO Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
Neurosurgery Department
Neuropsychology Unit
Hospital Lariboisière, Paris, France
Neurology Department DR. JULIA MIRÓ
Brain Mapping Program Intraoperative Neurophysiology
DR. JUAN MARTINO Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge Neurology Department
Professor
Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
Neurosurgery Department
DR. ANTONI RODRÍGUEZ
Hospital Universitario Marqués FORNELLS DR. LAURA PARIENTE
de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain Neuropsychology Anesthesia Department
Brain Mapping Program Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
DR. FRANCESCO SALA Cognition and Brain Plasticity Unit
Professor and Chair IDIBELL
Section of Neurosurgery,
Department of Neurosciences DR. ALEIX ROSSELLÓ
Biomedicine and Movement Sciences Neurosurgery Department
University Hospital Verona, Italy Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge
 PROGRAM

TUESDAY | November 21st

NEUROSURGERY COURSE Location: Dissection room
14:30 - 15:00 Delivery of documentation

15:00 - 15:30 Introduction: How to perform fiber dissection in cadaveric specimens

Dr. Juan Martino / Dr. Emmanuel Mandonnet / Dr. Alejandro Fernández-Coello

15:30 - 16:00 Introduction: How to perform fiber tractography in the lab

Dr. Àngels Camins / Dr. Pablo Naval-Baudin / Dr. Aleix Rosselló

16:00 - 17:30 Group 1

HANDS-ON WHITE MATTER FIBER DISSECTION:
Each participant will have one hemisphere to dissect

Group 2
HANDS ON WHITE MATTER DTI TRACTOGRAPHY:
Motor pathway tractography

17:30 - 18:00 COFFEE

18:00 - 19:30 Group 1

HANDS ON WHITE MATTER DTI TRACTOGRAPHY:
Motor pathway tractography

Group 2
HANDS-ON WHITE MATTER FIBER DISSECTION:
Each participant will have one hemisphere to dissect
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WEDNESDAY | November 22nd
WEDNESDAY | November 22nd
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSISTANCE
NEUROSURGERY COURSE HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Location: Dissection room Location: Dissection room
09:00 How to simulate a surgical approach to the 08:30 Delivery of documentation
main language pathways. Dr. Juan Martino/
09:00 Introduction: Intraoperative mapping and
Dr. Emmanuel Mandonnet / Dr. Alejandro monitoring of language and cognition during
Fernández-Coello awake surgery from a neuropsychological
standpoint. Dr. Anna Gasa-Roqué
09:30 Group 1
HANDS ON SESSION SPECIMEN. Each participant 09:30 Neuropsychological assessment of
glioma patients undergoing awake brain surgery
will have one CUSA and one hemisphere to dissect in the left-dominant hemisphere: before and after
surgery. Dr. Joanna Sierpowska
Group 2
HANDS ON SESSION DTI 10:00 Workshop 1: Cognitive and language as-
sessment before surgery. Neuropsychological bat-
Language pathways tractography tery of tests for patients with tumors located in the
perisylvian areas in the left-dominant hemisphere.
11:00 COFFEE Dr. Anna Gasa-Roqué / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska /
Dr. Imma Rico
11:30 Group 1
11:00 COFFEE
HANDS ON SESSION DTI
Language pathways tractography 11:30 Workshop 2: Cognitive and language
assessment before surgery. Neuropsychological
Group 2 battery of tests for patients with tumors located in
the supplementary motor area in the
HANDS ON SESSION SPECIMEN. Each participant left-dominant hemisphere. Dr. Anna Gasa-Roqué
will have one CUSA and one hemisphere to dissect / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr. Imma Rico

13:00 LUNCH 12:30 Discussion

13:00 LUNCH
14:30 How to simulate a surgical approach to
insular gliomas in the laboratory. Dr. Emmanuel 14:30 Assessment of language and cognition
during the surgery: methodological aspects
Mandonnet and tasks to use intraoperatively. Dr. Anna Ga-
sa-Roqué
15:00 Group 1 14:45 Precision medicine: personalized electrical
HANDS ON SESSION SPECIMEN. Each participant stimulation mapping tasks for tumor resection.
will have one CUSA and one hemisphere to dissect Dr. Xim Cerdá-Company
15:00 Workshop 3: Cortical and subcortical
Group 2 mapping and intraoperative monitoring by clinical
HANDS ON SESSION DTI cases - hands-on intraoperative evaluation and
Language pathways tractography scoring based on live surgeries (video material).
Dr. Anna Gasa-Roqué / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska /
Dr. Imma Rico
16:30 COFFEE
16:30 COFFEE
17:00 Group 1 17:00 Crash course in psychometrics:
HANDS ON SESSION DTI understanding what the results mean for each
Language pathways tractography person given their profile (age and education).
Dr. Laura Maldonado-Murciano
Group 2 17:30 Workshop 4: Scoring, interpretation and
HANDS ON SESSION SPECIMEN. Each participant communication of cognitive and language per-
will have one CUSA and one hemisphere to dissect formance before, during and after surgery. Dr.
Anna Gasa-Roqué / Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr.
Imma Rico
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THURSDAY | November 23rd
THEORY FOR BOTH COURSES:
NEUROSURGERY & NEUROPSYCHOLOGY Location: Bellvitge auditorium

08:15 – 08:45 Delivery of documentation

08:45 – 09:00 Welcome speech

09:00 – 09:20 Introduction: Evolution of Neurosurgery in eloquent brain areas

Dr. Andreu Gabarrós
09:20 – 09:40 Neuroanatomy of the functional cortical brain areas
Dr. Alejandro Fernández-Coello
09:40 – 10:00 Neuroanatomy of the functional subcortical brain areas
Dr. Juan Martino
10:00 – 10:20 Functional magnetic resonance and tractography:
Preoperative evaluation of brain function through neuroimaging
Dr. Àngels Camins
10:20 – 10:30 Discussion

10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE

11:00 – 11:20 Intraoperative. Neuromonitoring

Dr. Isabel Fernández-Conejero
11:20 – 11:40 Neuroanaesthesia management during eloquent brain surgery
Dr. Laura Pariente
11:40 – 12:00 Mapping of cortical and subcortical functions in the awake patient
Dr. Andreu Gabarrós / Dr. Alejandro Fernández-Coello
12:00 – 12:20 Mapping and neuromonitoring of motor function in the asleep patient
Dr. Gerard Plans
12:20 – 12:40 Neuropsychological intraoperative evaluation of language:
Tradition, Research. Case presentation
Dr. Joanna Sierpowska / Dr. Anna Gasa Roqué
12:40 – 13:00 Discussion

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH

14:30 – 15:00 How I do it: Tips & tricks session with the experts
Awake brain mapping
Dr. Hugues Duffau
15:00 – 15:30 Asleep motor mapping and neuromonitoring
Dr. Francesco Sala
15:30 – 16:00 Discussion

16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE

16:30 – 16:50 Intraoperative identification of the SMA in the awake patient

Dr. Andreu Gabarrós / Dr. Juan Martino
16:50 – 17:10 Mapping and neuromonitoring for extrinsic brain lesions
Dr. Pablo López-Ojeda / Dr. José Luis Sanmillán / Dr. Andreu Gabarrós
17:10 – 17:30 Mapping and neuromonitoring for insular tumors
Dr. Andreu Gabarrós / Dr. Alejandro Fernández-Coello
17:30 – 18:00 Discussion and closing remarks

DINNER (Only for the full course participants)

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FRIDAY | November 24th

FOR BOTH COURSES:
NEUROSURGERY & NEUROPSYCHOLOGY Location: Bellvitge auditorium

2 LIVE SURGERIES

08:30 – 15:00 Operating Room 1 – AWAKE PATIENT

Perisylvian tumor resection assisted by neuronavigation and cortical/subcortical

language brain mapping in the awake patient

08:30 – 15:00 Operating Room 2 – ASLEEP PATIENT

Perirolandic tumor resection assisted by neuronavigation, intraoperative neuro

monitoring and cortical/subcortical evoked motor brain mapping in the asleep
patient

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE / LUNCH DURING SESSION

15:00 Closing remarks and delivery of certificates

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VENUE TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT

The training program will be developed in: FORMEDIKA

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BELLVITGE Tel.: +34 943 468 441

Feixa Llarga, s/n E-mail: [email protected]
L ‘Hospitalet de Llobregat
BARCELONA
(Spain)

REGISTRATION
The registration will be made through the website of the Technical Secretariat of FORMEDIKA:
www.formedika.com
Limited places! Registratios on first come first-served basis.

REGISTRATION OPTIONS AND FEES

NEUROSURGERY COURSE
Full course Neurosurgery: Dissection, theory and live
2.200€ *1.980€
surgeries (From Tuesday 21st to Friday 24th) FULLY BOOKED

Theory and live surgeries (Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th) 590€ *531€

Video streaming for theory and live surgeries 90€ *81€

NEUROPSYCHOLOGY COURSE
Full course Neuropsychology on-site workshop (Wednesday 22nd)
990€ **891€
and on-site theory and live surgeries (Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th)

Full course Neuropsychology on-site workshop (Wednesday 22nd)

550€ **495€
and online theory and live surgeries (Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th)

* Members of the EANS (European Association of Neurosurgical Societies) will get a 10% discount on the prices
* Members of the COPC (Col·legi Oficial de Psicologia de Catalunya) will get a 10% discount on the price

COURSE ACCREDITATION:
The 6th Mapping Course - Dissection and Theory and Live Surgeries has been accredited by the European
Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®). In case the participant attended the
full on-site course, he/she would have two diplomas.

The course will be divided in three sections: Mapping Course Disection/Mapping Course - Neuropsychology/
Mapping Course - Theory and live surgeries.

The credits of the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) have been
requested for the 6th Mapping Course Neuropsychology on-site workshop and on-site theory and live
surgeries. In case the participant attended the full on-site course, he/she would have two diplomas.
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