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