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 2025/11/22 SYMPOSIUM 2  Room 101 CD
  • SYMPOSIUM 2 Epilepsy in Asian Oceanian
Clinical Features of Epileptic Syndrome in Asian Oceanian Countries: May Vary or Not?
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  • Ikeda   Akio
  • MD, PhD, FACNS
  • Professor, Department of Epilepsy, Movement Disorders and Physiology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
    E-mail:akio@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Executive Summary:
Akio IKEDA, MD, PhD, FACNS is currently Professor, Department of Epilepsy, Movement Disorders and Physiology at Kyoto University School of He was appointed as the Regional Chair of ILAE-Asia Oceania (2017-2021) and the President of JES (2017-2021), currently being past-chair and vice president. He was trained in Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology in Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA between 1989 and 1991, and earned his PhD from Kyoto University in 1993. Dr. IKEDA is involved in clinical epilepsy, neurology, and clinical neurophysiology, including epilepsy surgery (i.e., epileptogenesis made by astrocytes, ictal DC shifts. wide-band EEG), central control of myoclonus, motor seizures, movement disorders, and voluntary movements by slow cortical potentials (Bereitschaftspotentials and CNV). Currently also scalp-recorded infraslow activity as the causative EEG biomarker candidates in various neurological disorders aiming at CSD (cortical spreading depolarization) (migraine, amyloid spell, transient focal neurological episodes, head trauma, critical care, etc.). He has been working on clinical pathophysiology and treatment of BAFME (Cortical Tremor) since 1990 (Neurology,40:1561-1565) He was an Associate Editor of Epilepsia (2013-2017) and Neurology & Clinical Neuroscience (2013-2018) (English journal of Japan Neurology Society) and sits on the editorial boards of many journals. He has published in the literature having authored more than 480 original articles (385 in English, 95 in Japanese), 360 review articles (30 in English, 330 in Japanese), 182 book chapters (17 in English, 165 in Japanese) and 13 books (1 in English, 12 in Japanese). Invited lectures were done in 185 international academia meetings, and in 260 domestic academia meeting.

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