Oral / Poster presentations
Submission deadline: April 8, 2020
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
Basic and clinical scientists, clinicians, post-doctoral researchers, residents, fellows and other professionals from around the world working in all areas associated with Tourette Syndrome, tic and related disorders are invited to submit abstracts to be presented as posters or oral presentations at the 2020 ESSTS annual meeting.
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Please select a topic from the list below and choose your preferred mode of presentation (oral or poster). The final assignment will be made by the scientific review committee. The preferred poster format is A0 (841 x 1189 mm) and the abstract text should not exceed 500 words. Junior investigators who submit innovative work also have the opportunity to be considered for the Professor Mary Robertson award for Research Contribution in conjunction with Tourettes Action. All abstracts will be published online in the conference proceedings as an e-book.
Abstracts may be submitted in the following fields of study:
-Genetics and etiology of Tourette Syndrome and related disorders
-Neurophysiology and neuroimaging
-Comorbidities
-Treatment
-Functional tic-like movements
-Clinical rounds
-Other
NOTE: If you plan to submit an abstract, you –or at least one person from your group–, will first need to register for the conference.
Download abstract templateVideos / Clinical round sessions
Submission deadline: April 8, 2020
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
There will be the usual interactive video & clinical round session on the last conference day. It will give us all the opportunity to discuss collegially several challenging, uncommon and overall didactic clinical cases coming from all over our respective centres in Europe and beyond. You are invited to contribute to this session by submitting an abstract with a clinical case of tic (or hyperkinetic) movement disorder that you wish to present and discuss with colleagues.
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We are seeking well-described cases, –ideally presented with a video–, which pose diagnostic or management questions or present challenges with a key learning point. We will allocate 7–8 minutes for the presentation of each chosen case, which will be followed by 3–5 minutes of discussion with the chairpersons/audience. Please submit your anonymised case(s) by clicking the button below (they will be forwarded to Tammy Hedderly and Liselotte Skov) in the format of a short abstract in a Word document (max. 400 words) or ideally in a PowerPoint document with max. 5 slides. This should summarise the clinical history, physical examination, investigation and management to date and conclude with questions or learning points. To allow for the preparation of a successful session, we may ask you to discuss the video of the patient in advance (where available). If you are not asked to present, please bring your case to the conference, as there will be other opportunities to show cases and to discuss them with colleagues.
NOTE: If you plan to submit a case, you –or at least one person from your group–, will first need to register for the conference.
Professor Mary Robertson Award
Submission deadline: April 8, 2020
ELIGIBILITY
All junior researchers, excluding research heads, senior clinicians and previous winners of the award.
The Professor Mary Robertson Award for Research Contribution will be presented on behalf of Tourettes Action at the European Society for the Study of Tourette Syndrome meeting in Lausanne on 3–5 June 2020. The award will be made in honour of Professor Robertson and includes a prize of UK £250. She is the Life President of ESSTS and a Patron of Tourettes Action UK.
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Remit
-Original research of any kind on the Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome 3,000–5,000 words excluding references.
-Published or unpublished.
-Work should also be submitted as an abstract for presentation at ESSTS. Entries can include work presented at previous ESSTS meetings, but should also cover new ground in an abstract submitted for the 2018 meeting. The winner will be invited to make a platform presentation, if not already selected to do so, through the abstract acceptance process. Please include the relevant abstract/s with your entry.
-Must be written by the entrant with a statement indicating the role of other members of the research team, if applicable.
Senior ESSTS members – please distribute to your juniors.
Submit, or enquire about your eligibility to Dr. Jeremy Stern.
