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TS-school
ESSTS offers a training course for TS beginners.
This course is open to clinicians (physicians, psychologists, psychotherapists, nurses, medical students and other professionals who are interested in the clinical aspects of TS).
All presentations are held in English.
The invited lecturers are world-renowned TS experts including board members of ESSTS.
TS-school 2023
Brussels, Belgium
Tuesday, 6 June 2023, 13:00-18:00 CEST | Congress centre of the Royal Museum for Central Africa.
The first edition of the ESSTS TS-school was held in Brussels in June 2023 and was available as an independent event both to local professionals and conference attendees.
We welcomed participants from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Poland, Slovakia and the UK.
Lecturers that joined us from the University of Calgary:
ESSTS 2020-2023 board members
Clinically relevant topics that were covered:
Diagnosis and definition of tic disorders
Nature of tics
Course of TS
Comorbidities
Differential diagnoses
Assessments
Pathophysiology including genetics
Treatment
view training course programme
13:00-13:25
Welcome
Andrea Cavanna
13:25-14:00
How to answer FAQ from patients and families on etiology and pathophysiology of tic disorders
Davide Martino
14:15-15:00
Comorbidity
Tamara Pringsheim
15:00-15:30
Coffee break
(foyer area)
15:30-16:15
Assessment, including differential diagnoses
Natalia Szejko
16:15-17:15
Treatment: pharmacological treatment, psychological intervention, deep brain stimulation
Kirsten Müller-Vahl & Andreas Hartmann
17:15-18:00
Cases: assessment and treatment
Nanette Mol Debes
