[HT-04] Hot Topics 04 Interdisciplinary research between dementia and epilepsy

[HT-04-1] Late-onset epilepsy of unknown etiology: cognitive performance and EEG characteristics

^○Riki Matsumoto (Division of Neurology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan)

Prof. Riki Matsumoto graduated Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in 1994. After residency in Kyoto University and affiliated hospitals, he had subspecialty training (Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology) in Kyoto University Graduate School and Cleveland Clinic, and obtained PhD thesis in 2003. He then worked in the Department of Neurology, Kyoto University Hospital as young faculty, lecturer and associate professor. He was recently appointed as the Professor of the Division of Neurology at Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine in 2019. His research interests include the brain connectomics of normal physiology and pathophysiology by integrating neurophysiological techniques including CCEP, the development of physiologic biomarkers of epileptogenicity, the clinical/immunologic researches on autoimmune epilepsy, and the interaction between dementia and epilepsy.