World Federation of Neurology
Specialty Group on Aphasia, Dementia and Cognitive Disorders

April 4th to April 7th, 2024, Nara, Japan
Venue: The Nara Katsugano International Forum Conference Center
Suvarna Alladi, Chair WFN SG ADCD
Manabu Ikeda, Chair, Biennial meeting of WFN SG ADCD 2020
Yutaka Tanaka, Planning and Local Arrangements Chairs
Thomas Bak, Past Chair WFN SG ADCD
http://adcd2020nara.com/

Time
9:00 am - 9:15 am
9.15 am – 9.45 am

9:45 am - 11:15 am

Main Symposia

April 4 2024, Thursday - DAY 1Speakers and Topics

Inauguration and opening remarksPlenary talkEtsuro Mori
Innovations in Dementia Studies: A Look Back at the Contributions of Japanese Behavioral
Neurologists
Twelve years later: Advances
a. Olivier Piguet
and cross-cultural
Interoception: A window into social cognition disturbances in FTD?
investigations inb. Lara Migliaccio
frontotemporal dementia andUnmasking behavior in neurodegenerative disorders: Beyond questionnaires and into realprimary progressive aphasia
life contextsc. Ramon Landin-Romero
Chair: Olivier Piguet
Neuroimaging correlates of apraxia of speech in nonfluent variants of primary progressiveaphasia(15 mins presentation + 30
d. Yuichi Higashiyama
mins discussion)
Cross-cultural and linguistic variations in primary progressive aphasia: A comparative studyof patients in Australia and Japan
Symposium Discussion(10.45 am – 11.15 am)

11:15 am - 11:40 am

Coffee/Tea Break

11:40 am - 12:55 pm

Recent research on executivefunctions and readinga.
b.

Chair: Lisa Cipolotti(15 mins presentation + 30
mins discussion)

Lisa Cipolotti
Graph lesion-deficit mapping of fluid intelligence
Sarah MacPherson
The Cognitive Estimation Test: Contributions of executive and semantic domains inneurological patients and healthy agingCarlo Semenza, Silvia Facchini, Tommaso Balsemin,Vittoria Dentella, Elena Salillas and Arianna Nacchi
Reading errors in neglect dylexia: Role of phonology
Symposium Discussion(12.25 pm – 12.55 pm)

1:00 pm – 2:00 pmLunch

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA)a.

Chair: Kyoko Suzuki & MakiSuzukib.

Part 1. PCA: An updatec.
d.

Part 2. Implications of recent
clinical and research advances for
PCA consensus criteriae.

General Discussion

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Coffee/Tea Break

4:15 pm - 5:30 pm

Redefining Dementia Care:
Virtual Behavioural Medicine as aTranslatable, Community-Centric
Model for Alleviating the Global
Burden of Dementia.

Kyoko Suzuki
Contribution of the dorsal and ventral visual pathways to symptoms in posterior corticalatrophy
Ming-Chyi Pai
Posterior Cortical Atrophy Syndrome: Asian Study
Shinobu Kawakatsu, Ryota Kobayashi, Kazutaka Sakamoto, Daichi Morioka, Akihito Suzuki
Brain imaging and neuropathology in posterior cortical atrophy
Maki Suzuki
Attempt of non-pharmacological interventions in posterior cortical atrophy
Sebastian Crutch, Keir Yong, Annalena Venneri
Recent international and UCL PCA research complementing findings from the PCA Asianconsortium
Sebastian Crutch
Introduction for discussion on revisiting PCA criteria and collaborative
opportunities/recommendations to address clinical/research gapsa.

b.

Chair: Morris Freedmanc.

Morris Freedman et al.
Virtual Behavioural Medicine Program: A Novel Model of Care for NeuropsychiatricSymptoms in Severe Dementia
Deb Galet et al.
Continuum of Behavioural Support in Dementia: Virtual Behavioural Medicine in Ontario’s
Healthcare System(4.15 pm – 4.30 pm)
Jagger Smith et al.
Program Development for International Spread: Application of Best-Practices for Scaling a
Novel Care ModelSymposium Discussion(4.45 pm – 5.30 pm)

6:00 pm onwards

Welcome Party

April 5 2024, Friday – DAY 2
Main Symposia

TimeSpeakers and Topics

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Plenary talkCarlo Semenza
The contribution of the right hemisphere to calculation

9:30 am - 10:45 am

Physiology and pathology of brain
functions: insights from brain diseasesabChair: Riki Matsumoto(15 mins presentation + 30 minsdiscussion)cRiki Matsumoto
Relationship between epilepsy and dementia: its cognitive perspective
Akihiro Shimotake
Neural basis of semantic cognition: insights from temporal lobe epilepsy and its
presurgical evaluation
Ryo Ishibashi
The critical role of the anterior temporal lobe in human tool-use network:
Evidence from a multi-voxel fMRI analysis.
Symposium Discussion:(10:15 am – 10:45 am)

10:45 am - 11:00 am
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Coffee/Tea BreakSemantics in Alzheimer's disease andprimary progressive aphasiaa.
b.

Chair: Jet Vonkc.
(15 mins presentation + 30 mins
discussion)d.

Jet Vonk
Using linguistics to identify early cognitive markers of dementia
Boon Lead Tee
Semantic features in Chinese primary progressive aphasia
Adolfo Garcia
Novel automated metrics to reveal semantic disruptions in Alzheimer’s disease
Jessica de Leon
Semantic deficits in semantic behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
Symposium Discussion:(12:00 – 12:30 pm)

12.30 pm -1.15 pm
1.15 pm - 3.00 pm

Lunch
Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases, Dementiaand Carea.
b.

Chairs: Masafumi Ihara & Rajesh Kalariac.
(15 mins presentation + 30 minsdiscussion)d.
e.

Sonu Bhaskar (Australia-Japan)
Clinical and Imaging aspects of SVD and Dementia
Raj Kalaria (UK-Kenya)
Pathophysiology of sporadic SVD and Dementia
Masafumi Ihara (Japan)
Hereditary SVD and Dementia Care – CADASIL as a model
Osamu Onodera (Japan)
CARASIL: Genetic, Pathophysiology and Therapeutics of cSVD and dementia
Rajeswari Aghoram, Indira Priya Done, Sunil K Narayan
Cognitive outcomes of young stroke survivors (ECR presentation)

3.00 pm - 4.30 pm

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy and cognitive
impairmenta.
b.

Chair: Akihiro Shindoc.
(15 mins presentation + 30 minsdiscussion)d.

Akihiro Shindo
MRI findings and cognitive impairment in cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Takakuni Maki
Impaired clearance system in cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Shinobu Kitazume
Impact of endothelial APP expression on cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Tsuyoshi Hamaguchi
Latrogenic transmission of cerebral amuloid-amyloidosis among individuals
Symposium Discussion:(4:00 pm – 4:30 pm)

4.30 pm - 4.45 pm
4.45 pm - 6.00 pm

Coffee/Tea Break
Behavioural interventions andrehabilitationa.

Chairs: Aida Suarez-Gonzalez and PeterNestorb.

(10 mins presentation + 25 minsdiscussion)

c.

d.

e.
f.

Aida Suárez-González, Nathalie Bier, Hélène Sauvageau, Victoria S. Pelak, SamrahAhmed
Rehabilitation in Posterior Cortical Atrophy: how to do it.
Masaki Kondo
The ability of Alzheimer’s disease patients to use electrical appliances and theusefulness of a remote-control task
Winsy Wing Sze Wong, Donald Shi Pui Li , Mohammad Momenian, Natalie AuYeung, Anne Chong, Karen Chong, Terri Ho, Karen Kwok, Maggie Lee
Virtual Reality-based Script Training for Rehabilitation of Functional
Communication of Cantonese Speakers with Aphasia: Preliminary Findings
Sophie Chesneau
AID-COM Montessori: training for family caregivers in communication andbehavioral problems
Sarah E. MacPherson, Kelly Wolfe, Catherine J Crompton, & Paul Hoffman
Collaborative learning with a familiar or unfamiliar partner in cognitive aging
Daiki Ishimaru, Hideki Kanemoto, Yuto Satake, Daiki Tomoto, Maki Hotta, Yuma
Nagata, Kunihiko Katsuki, Manabu Ikeda
Useful and simple assessment approach of home environment associated withneuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia
Symposium Discussion:(5:35 pm – 6:00 pm)

6:00 pm – 6:30 pm

Noh Dancing

April 6 2024, Saturday – DAY 3Time
9:00 am - 10:45 am

Main Symposia
Diversity, disparity and precision sciencein brain health

Individual Topicsa.
b.

Chair: Suvarna Alladic.
(15 min presentation + 30 minsdiscussion)d.

e.

Suvarna Alladi
Nuances in neuropsychological assessments in diverse populations
Thomas Bak
Linguistic typology in dementia
Chi Udeh-Momoh
Resilience and allostasis in dementia: Insights from Africa
Adolfo M Garcia
From the lab to the clinic: Turning neurolinguistic research into a speech testingapp
Tanya Dash, Michele Masson-Trottier and Ana Ines Ansaldo
Beyond executive control in aphasia: The bilingual advantage in alertness
Symposium Discussion(10.15 am – 10.45 am)

10:45 am - 11:50 am

From clinic to community (ECRPresentations)a.
b.

Chairs: Thomas Bak and Morris Freedman(8-10 mins presentation each including
discussion)

c.

d.

e.

f.

11.50 am – 7.00 pm

Half day Nara tour

Kohei Morimoto, Hisatomo Kowa, Tsuneyoshi Seki, Riki Matsumoto
The utility of plasma amyloid β in memory clinic patients
Rieko Sakata, Takako Yoshimura
Does decreased spontaneity in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Cause Cognitive
Communication Disorders?
Chifumi Iseki, Takumi Hommura, Hikaru Kawahara, Ai Kawamura, Shoko Ohta,
Nobuko Kawakami, Shigenori Kanno, Yasuyuki Ohta, Kyoko Suzuki
The Visual and Tactile Texture Perception in Older Community Residents and theRisk of Dementia Over Six Years
Winsy Wing Sze Wong
Adaptation and Validation of the Cantonese version of the Amsterdam Nijmegen
Everyday Language Test (CANELT)
Maiko Sakamoto Pomeroy, Aya Nakao, Jun Yamanouchi, Hirotomo Nakata, Rumi
Minami, Shuzo Matsushita, Tania Giovannetti, Takehiko Yamaguchi
Cognitive and Behavioral Signs to Detect Mild form of HIV-Associated
Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND)
Maria Teresa Carthery-Goulart, Lucas Oliveira Mourão, Isabel Junqueira deAlmeida, Paola May Pisetta, Barbara Costa Beber, Ricardo Nitrini, Peter Garrard,
Sonia Maria Dozzi Brucki
Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Application of the Brazilian Version of the MiniLinguistic State Examination for Primary Progressive Aphasia Classification

April 7 2024, Sunday – DAY 4Time

Main Symposia

Individual Topics

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Plenary Talk

Manabu Ikeda
Relationship between prodromal stage of dementia and primary psychiatric diseasesCharacteristics seen from psychosis

9:30 am – 10:45 am

Primary progressive aphasia related toAlzheimer pathology.

a.

Chair: Peter Nestorb.

ECR presentations
Impairments in logopenic variant primary
progressive aphasiac.

Naomi Nevler
Automated analyses of digitized speech in biologically-confirmed PPA(9.30 am – 9.45 am)
Peter Nestor
The spectrum of linguistic and imaging features in Alzheimer-related PPA.
(9.45am – 10.00 am)
Hitomi Sato
How can we understand the core impairment of logopenic variant of primary
progressive aphasia? -Consideration by a longitudinal single-case study
10:00 am – 10:15 am, including discussion)
Symposium Discussion(10:15 am – 10:45 am)

10:45 am - 11:05 am
11:05 am - 12:35
pm

Coffee/Tea BreakPET studiesa.

Chair: Masaru Mimurab.

(15 min presentation + 30 mins
discussion)c.
d.

Harumasa Takano
PET imaging of Alzheimer’s disease
Daisuke Ito
PET imaging of non-Alzheimer neurodegenerative diseases
Masaru Mimura
PET imaging of late-life psychosis and mood disorder
Keisuke Takahata
PET imaging of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Symposium Discussion(12.05 pm – 12.35 pm)

12:35 pm - 1:30 pm
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Lunch
Poster session

3.00 pm - 3.30 pm

Chair: TBA
Workshop

3.30 pm - 3.45 pm
3.45 pm – 4.45 pm

Coffee/Tea BreakBusiness Meeting and Closing Remarks

Adolfo Garcia, Jessica de Leon, Boon Lead Tee
Linguistic diversity and brain disorders: The INCLUDE NetworkDetails about poster session
Sl.
NoAuthors

Poster Title

1

Mika Konishi, Fumie Saito, Yukiko Miyasaka, MichitakaFunayama, Masaru Mimura

Impact of severity of aphasia on social participation andquality of life2

Masami Hiyama, Yuka Kato, Yusuke Asada, Takahumi Kubo,Terukazu Kurakata, TakehikoYamamoto, Jin NarumotoCharacteristics of financial transaction ability in older
adults3

Maimko Fujiwara, Ryohei Kawabata, Haruna Yamaguchi, Shiori
Yoshiyama, Yuji Mouri, Karin Tounan, Norihisa Matsukawa, IkkoOhno, Rumi Tanemura, Atsuko Hayashi

Association Between Preoperative Decline in SpecificCognitive Domains and Postoperative Delirium Risk in
Elderly Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer

4Misato IchiseSocial Work Practice and it’s problems in Higher Education
Institutions in Japan - Supporting Students with
Developmental Disabilities including SLD -5

Bianca Franzoia, Silvia Benavides-Varela, Ilaria Fersini, Danilo
Dimitri, Marina Zettin, and Carlo SemenzaIntellectual disability in CHAMP-1 syndrome: A longitudinalcase study

6Michitaka Funayama, Yoshitaka Nakagawa, Yu Mimura, Masaru
MimuraDementia trajectory for patients with logopenic variant
primary progressive aphasia

7

Tanya Dash, Yves Joanette & Ana Ines Ansaldo

Bilingualism and Enhanced Brain Connectivity: Utilizing
PLSR to Explore Protective Mechanisms against AgeRelated Cognitive Decline

8

Maria Teresa Carthery-Goulart, Erica dos Santos Rodrigues, Lilian
Cristine Hübner

Development and feasibility of an online linguistic cognitive
stimulation program for community-dwelling older adults

9

Kana Matsuda , Masaki Shinohara, Yuichiro Ii, Ken-ichi Tabei,
Yukito Ueda, Naoko Nakamura, Yoshinori Hirata, Hidehiro
Ishikawa , Hirofumi Matsuyama, Keita Matsuura, Masayuki Satoh,
Masayuki Maeda , Ryo Momosaki, Hidekazu Tomimoto, andAkihiro Shindo

Magnetic resonance imaging and neuropsychologicalfindings for predicting of cognitive deterioration in memory
clinic patients

10Mayumi Otani, Riki Matsumoto, Akihiro Shimotake, Mitsuhiro
Sakamoto, Takuro Nakae, Masao Matsuhashi, Takayuki Kikuchi,
Kazumichi Yoshida, Takehiro Kunieda, Matthew A Lambon-Ralph,
Yoshiki Arakawa, Ryosuke Takahashi, Akio Ikeda

Examination of Task Selection Using Principal Component
Analysis in Japanese Language Mapping with ElectricalCortical Stimulation - validation study-

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