Track 1:  Dementia

Dementia is not a specific disease. It’s an overall term that describes a group of symptoms associated with a decline in memory and other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person’s ability to perform every day.  Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 to 80 percent of cases. Vascular dementia, which occurs after a stroke, is the second most common dementia type. But there are many other conditions that can cause symptoms of dementia, including some that are reversible, such as thyroid problems and vitamin deficiencies. While symptoms of dementia can vary greatly, at least two of the following core mental functions must be significantly impaired to be considered dementia:

• Memory
• Communication and language
• Ability to focus and pay attention
• Reasoning and judgment
• Visual perception

Track 2: Vascular Dementia

Vascular dementia is a general term describing problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by brain damage from impaired blood flow to your brain. Vascular dementia develops after a stroke blocks an artery in your brain, but strokes don’t always cause vascular dementia. Whether a stroke affects your thinking and reasoning depends on your stroke’s severity and location. Vascular dementia can also result from other conditions that damage blood vessels and reduce circulation, depriving your brain of vital oxygen and nutrients. Factors that increase your risk of heart disease and stroke, including diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking — also raise your vascular dementia risk. Controlling these factors may help lower your chances of developing vascular dementia. Vascular dementia signs and symptoms include:

• Confusion
• Trouble paying attention and concentrating
• Reduced ability to organize thoughts or actions
• Decline in ability to analyse a situation, develop an effective plan and communicate that plan to others
• Difficulty deciding what to do next
• Problems with memory
• Restlessness and agitation
• Unsteady gait
• Sudden or frequent urge to urinate or inability to control passing urine
• Depression or apathy

Track 3:  Dementia and Aging

The brain is capable of producing new brain cells at any age, so significant memory loss is not an inevitable result of aging. But just as it is with muscle strength, you have to use it or lose it. Your lifestyle, habits, and daily activities have a huge impact on the health of your brain. Whatever your age, there are many ways you can improve your cognitive skills, prevent memory loss, and protect your grey matter. Furthermore, many mental abilities are largely unaffected by normal aging, such as: Your ability to do the things you’ve always done and continue to do often, The wisdom and knowledge you’ve acquired from life experience, Your innate common sense and your ability to form reasonable arguments and judgments.  3 causes of age-related memory loss

• The hippocampus, a region of the brain involved in the formation and retrieval of memories, often deteriorates with age.
• Hormones and proteins that protect and repair brain cells and stimulate neural growth also decline with age.
• Older people often experience decreased blood flow to the brain, which can impair memory and lead to changes in cognitive skills

Track 4: Lewy body Dementia

Lewy body dementia is also known as dementia with Lewy bodies. this is the second most common type of progressive of dementia after the Alzheimer’s disease dementia. Protein deposits is called Lewy bodies which develop in nerve cells in the brain regions involved in thinking, memory and movement. Lewy body dementia causes a progressive decline in mental abilities. People with Lewy body dementia may experience visual hallucinations and changes in alertness and attention. Other effects include Parkinson’s disease-like symptoms such as rigid muscles, slow movement and tremors. Lewy body dementia signs and symptoms may include:

• Visual hallucinations
• Movement disorders
• Autonomic nervous system
• Cognitive problems
• Sleep difficulties
• Fluctuating attention.
• Apathy

Track 5: Alzheimers Disease

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive disorder that causes brain cells to waste away (degenerate) and die. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia — a continuous decline in thinking, behavioral and social skills that disrupts a person’s ability to function independently. The early signs of the disease may be forgetting recent events or conversations. As the disease progresses, a person with Alzheimer’s disease will develop severe memory impairment and lose the ability to carry out everyday tasks. Current Alzheimer’s disease medications may temporarily improve symptoms or slow the rate of decline. These treatments can sometimes help people with Alzheimer’s disease maximize function and maintain independence for a time. Different programs and services can help support people with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers. There is no treatment that cures Alzheimer’s disease or alters the disease process in the brain. In advanced stages of the disease, complications from severe loss of brain function, such as dehydration, malnutrition or infection, result in death. Symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease:

• Memory
• Thinking and reasoning
• Making judgments and decisions
• Planning and performing familiar tasks
• Changes in personality and behaviour
• Preserved skill

Track 6: Geriatrics Dementia

Geriatrics and geriatric medicine is a specialty that focuses on the health care of elderly people. It aims to promote health by preventing and treating diseases and disabilities in older adults. Geriatrics differs from standard adult medicine because it focuses on the unique needs of the elderly person. The aged body is different physiologically from the younger adult body, and during old age, the decline of various organ systems becomes manifest. Previous health issues and lifestyle choices produce a different constellation of diseases and symptoms in different people. The appearance of symptoms depends on the remaining healthy reserves in the organs. Smokers, for example, consume their respiratory system reserve early and rapidly. Geriatricians distinguish between diseases and the effects of normal aging. For example, renal impairment may be a part of aging, but renal failure and urinary incontinence are not. Geriatricians aim to treat diseases that are present and achieve healthy aging. Geriatricians focus on achieving the patient’s highest priorities in the context of multiple chronic conditions, and on preserving function.

Track 7: Cognitive Disorders

Cognitive disorder are those, that center around the brain’s ability to remember and process information. The causes of these disorders may be physical – head injury or the degeneration of the brain with aging – but they may also be related to substance abuse or other causes. Symptoms of cognitive disorders include difficulties with learning new information as well as general problems with short term memory and other cognitive problems. Types of Cognitive Disorders:-

• Delirium
• Dementia
• Amnestic Disorders
• Other Cognitive Disorders

Track 8: Neurodegenerative Diseases

Neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of people worldwide. Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease are the most common types, with more than five million Americans living with Alzheimer’s disease, and at least 500,000 Americans living with Parkinson’s disease, although some estimates are much higher. Neurodegenerative diseases occur when nerve cells in the brain or peripheral nervous system lose function over time and ultimately die. Although treatments may help relieve some of the physical or mental symptoms associated with neurodegenerative diseases, there is currently no way to slow disease progression and no known cures. Grant recipients in this area study the following diseases:

• Parkinson’s disease
• Alzheimer’s disease
• Huntington’s disease
• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
• Motor neuron disease

Track 9: Brain disorders

Brain Diseases come in different forms of Infections, trauma, stroke, seizures, and tumors are some of the major categories of brain diseases.

• Meningitis
• Encephalitis
• Brain abscess
• Trauma
• Traumatic brain injury

Track 10: Dementia Nursing

Caregivers of dementia patients need to understand dementia so that they can understand what the patient is going through. They need to know about underlying diseases, and how these may affect the progress of dementia. They also need to know what sort of behaviour to expect. Understanding these helps them plan for their caregiving and to cope with the situation effectively, and with less stress.

Track 11: Treating Dementia

Treatment of dementia begins with the treatment of the underlying disease, where possible. The underlying causes of nutritional, hormonal, tumour-caused or drug-related dementia may be reversible to some extent. For many other diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), no cure has yet been discovered. However, improvement of cognitive and behavioural symptoms can be achieved through a combination of appropriate medications and other treatments, including psychotherapy.

Track 12: Dementia Care Management

Dementia care management was provided at the homes of patients with dementia. Dementia care management is a model of collaborative care, defined as a complex intervention aiming to provide optimal treatment and care for patients with dementia and support caregivers using a computer-assisted assessment determining a personalized array of intervention modules and subsequent success monitoring. Dementia care management was targeted at the individual patient level and was conducted by nurses with dementia care-specific qualifications

Track 13: Neuropharmacology

Neuropharmacology is an extremely wide locale of science that includes numerous parts of the sensory system from single neuron control to whole ranges of the cerebrum, spinal line, and fringe nerves. To better comprehend the premise behind medication advancement, one should first see how neurons speak with each other. This article will concentrate on both behavioural and atomic neuropharmacology; the real receptors, particle channels, and neurotransmitters controlled through medication activity and how individuals with a neurological issue advantage from this medication activity.

Track 14: Dementia Rehabilitation and Therapy

Novel therapeutics is a standout amongst the most energizing uses of data preparing frameworks is in diagnostics and treatment. This is not astonishing, given that illness analysis is in its center a data handling undertaking that finishes with a choice. In numerous infections, the conclusion can be performed in singular cells. We are used to thinking of rehabilitation in terms of physical rehabilitation following injury, but it is equally relevant for people with cognitive, rather than physical, impairments. This includes people whose impairments result from long-term, progressive neurodegenerative conditions. In cognitive rehabilitation, these principles are applied to enable people with dementia to maintain or optimize functioning.

• Novel therapeutics strategies for dementia
• Novel therapeutics molecule
• Anti-dementia drugs
• Novel drug target for the treatment of dementia

Track 15: Novel Therapeutics

The purpose of the session is to consider the use of novel therapeutics for the treatment of dementia and Neurological disorders, Multiple Sclerosis etc. Novel therapeutics includes use of nanotechnology to treat Neurological disorders and CNS disorders and molecular therapeutics based diagnosis etc.

Track 16: Case Reports