Joint British and Irish Societies of Clinical Neurophysiology
(BSCN/ISCN) 2025 Spring Scientific meeting

Thursday March 13th and Friday March 14th 2025,
Radisson Blu St Helen’s Hotel, Stillorgan, Co Dublin. 

Thursday March 13th

Thursday March 13th 8-8.45am Registration and coffee

8.45am Opening remarks - Dr B McNamara, President of ISCN

8.50am Platform presentations - Chair – Dr Anna Molloy
8.50am Acute onset flaccid weakness in a two month old infant.
Preeyal Valla, M O’ Regan, JC McHugh, H Maybury, B Freyne. Children’s Health Ireland.

9.05am Investigating Interhemispheric Interactions Between Premotor, Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, and Primary Motor Cortex Using Threshold Tracking Dual-Site Paired-Pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.

Eva Woods , Narin Suleyman , Kathy Ruddy , Colm Peelo , Niall Pender , Richard G, Carson , Roisin McMackin

1 Discipline of Physiology, School of Medicine, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 2 Department of Neurology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. 3 Academic Unit of Neurology, School of Medicine, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 4 Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 5 School of Psychology, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

9.20am A Post-Operative TMS-MEPs for Confirming SMA Syndrome: A Case Study Anderson Brito Da Silva. The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

9.40am Statin associated immune mediated necrotising myopathy (IMNM): the value of EMG and muscle pathology in diagnosis and treatment.

Donal Costigan , Killian O’Rourke , David Moorhouse , Niall Slamon , Michael Farrell :
Dept of Neurology / Neurophysiology, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin D07 23 R2WY, EMG Laboratory, Bon Secours Hospital, Dublin D09 YN97 Dept of
Neuropathology, Beaumont Hospital, D09 V2N0

9.55am - Soon Tjin Lim. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

10.15am EMG and neuromuscular ultrasound findings in a patient with late onset Acid Maltase Deficiency.

Maurice Foley , Gerard Mullins , Anna Whelehan , Stela Lefter

1. Department of Clinical Neurophysiology Beaumont Hospital Dublin

2. Department of Neurology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin.

10.30am Posterior Interosseous Neuropathy secondary to Parosteal Lipoma: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Ryan M , Dolan E , O’Connor G , McNamara B

1 Department of Neurology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland 2 Department of Neurophysiology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland.

10.45am - Nicholas Keyi Sim. Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

11.05am Coffee and posters (authors in attendance)

Neuropathic Sensory and Autonomic Symptoms in Small Fibre Neuropathy: A Retrospective Analysis of 101 Patients.
Neurophysiology of Concurrent Neuroborreliosis and Tick-borne Encephalitis: A Case Report

11.30am Paediatric EEG. Guest Speakers -Chair – Prof Amre Shahwan, CHI-Temple Street
11.30am Neonatal EEG. Prof Geraldine Boylan, Director of INFANT Centre, Cork

12.15pm Infantile spasms. Prof Mark Cunningham, TCD.

1pm Lunch

2pm Paediatric Neurophysiology Case Symposium with Expert Panel
Chair – Dr John McHugh
Panellists – Dr Eimer Maloney (CUH), Prof Amre Shahwan (CHI-Temple St)

3.15pm Coffee

3.30pm Workshops
1. The nerves less travelled – Prof Sean Connolly
2. Stimulation single fibre EMG workshop – Dr J Deeb, Dr J McHugh

4.30 pm Neurophysiology – Kahoot Quiz
To coincide with the Rugby 6-Nations, we will host a Neurophysiology World Cup Quiz (replacing the previously advertised 4 Nations quiz).

Organisers will ask all attending to organise themselves into teams of 5 people. Teams will be asked to choose a country to represent. Teams can be made up of Consultant Neurophysiologists, non-consultant trainees (neurology or neurophysiology), Physiologists, and students. Teams would ideally combine a range of talents.

5.30pm Close

7pm Departure for BSCN/ISCN Dinner – Bloom Brasserie, Upper Baggot St, Dublin

Friday March 14th

8-40am Coffee

8.40am Platform presentations Chair – Dr Michael Alexander

8.40am Synaptic inhibitory dynamics drive benzodiazepine response in paediatric status. Richard Rosch. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation.

9am “I didn’t mean to hit a nerve” – a rare case of peroneal intraneural ganglion cyst

Jessica Stack , Caitlin Elliott , PJ O’Donoghue , Róisín Dolan , Sean Connolly

1 Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, St Vincent’s University Hospital 2 Department of Plastic Surgery, St Vincent’s University Hospital 3 School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin.

9.15am Rare causes of cauda equina syndrome.
Thomas R. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

9.35am Bowling myoclonus: A case of adult-onset progressive myoclonic epilepsy due to CLN6 mutation-confirmed Kufs disease type A.

Albert Kelly, John Dunne, Carolyn Orr, Nicholas Lawn. Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital, Western Australia.

9.50am EEG Microstates Reflect Attentional Trade-offs in the N2pc Task.
Rohan Kandasamy, UCL Institute of Neurology / UCLH National Hospital of Neurology and

Neurosurgery

10.10am EEG in the Encephalopathic Patient: A Case of Late-Onset ASL Deficiency. 11112

Aine Redmond , Alex Dudley , Hongying Chen , David Lewis-Smith , Anna Whelehan , Gerard Mullins , Eavan McGovern , Stephen Ryan

1.Department of Neurology, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont Road, Dublin 9.
2. Department of Neurology, Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, Mill Road, Abbotstown, Dublin.
3.Department of Neurophysiology, Beaumont Hospital, Beaumont Road, Dublin

Session finish 10.25am

10.30 – 11.15am Coffee and Guided Poster Tours

11.15 – Invited speakers – EEG, and Peripheral Neurology

Chair – Dr John McHugh

11.15am Title TBC (AI in Clinical Neurophysiology +/- continuous EEG in ICU)

Prof Michel van Putten, Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Twente, The Netherlands

12pm Hereditary and wildtype amyloidosis-related neuropathy, diagnosis and new treatment options.

Prof Sinead Murphy, Consultant Neurologist, Tallaght University Hospital

12.45 Working Lunch and posters

1.30 pm Themed Expert EMG panel – EMG and oncology Chair – Dr Brian McNamara
Panellists – Dr Nonnie McNicholas, Dr Donal Costigan 3.00pm – Dr Jeremy Bland – Audit Presentation

3.30pm Announcement of Prize Winners
3.45pm Close of Meeting – Drs Gareth Payne and Brian McNamara