8th ILAE School on EEG in the First Year of Life
From newborn to toddler
Cambridge, UK
30 March - 2 April 2026
Programme
9:00-10:20 Registration and refreshments
10:20-10:30 Welcome
10:30-11:00 Rachel Thornton: Technical aspects and pitfalls
11:00-11:30 Fabrice Wallois: Normal EEG in pre and term infants
11:30-12:00 Emilie Bourel-Ponchel: Normal EEG in Infancy
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:30 Monika Eisermann: Abnormal EEG in newborns and infants
13:30-14:00 Alexandre Datta: Sleep in infancy – normal and abnormal
14:00-15:30 Workshop I – Normal EEG in newborns and infants
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Workshop II – Artefact and abnormal EEG in newborns and infants
19:00-20:30 Dinner
09:00-09:30 Sushma Goyal: EEG in preterm brain injury
09:30-10:00 Geraldine Boylan: EEG in HIE and neonatal stroke
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:30 Workshop III – Acute brain injury in term & preterm infants
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Ronit Pressler: EEG in neonatal seizures
14:00-14:30 Ronit Pressler: Classification of neonatal seizure & epilepsies
14:30-15:00 Topun Austin: Neonatologists view of EEG and aEEG
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:30 Workshop IV - Neonatal seizures
Free evening
09:00-09:30 Monika Eisermann: Early onset developmental & epileptic encephalopathies (DEE)
09:30-10:00 Christian Korff: Hypsarrhythmia and epileptic spasms
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:30 Workshop V – DEEs in infancy
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Nicola Specchio: EEG abnormalities in genetic disorders
14:00-14:30 Federico Vigevano: EEG abnormalities in inborn error of metabolism
14:30-15:00 Nicola Specchio: EEG in self-limiting epilepsy syndromes
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:30 Workshop VI - Epilepsy syndromes in infancy
19:00-22:30 Drinks Reception and Gala Dinner
09:00-09:30 Rachel Thornton: Cortical malformations in infancy
09:30-10:00 María Ángeles Pérez-Jiménez: Non-epileptic events in infancy
10:00-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:15 Workshop VII – Mixed cases
12:15-13:00 Ronit Pressler and Monika Eisermann: Quiz
13:00-13:30 Lunch
End of course
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