TS-school Athens 2025 | Training course on Tourette syndrome

This is a training course for TS beginners.
The course is open to clinicians (physicians, psychologists, psychotherapists, nurses, medical students) and other professionals who are interested in the clinical aspects of TS.

The presentations and the Q&A session will be held in English. The invited lecturers are world-renowned TS experts including board members of ESSTS.
All clinically relevant topics will be covered, including:

• Diagnosis and definition of tic disorders
• Nature of tics
• Course of TS
• Comorbidities
• Differential diagnoses
• Assessments
• Pathophysiology including genetics
• Treatment

Programme

13:00-13:05 Welcome, by the ESSTS board
13:05-14:00 Assessment, including differential diagnoses, by Natalia Szejko (Canada)
14:00-14:30 Comorbidities, or co-occurring conditions, by Christelle Nilles (France)
14:30-14:45 Focus on ADHD, by Sara Bahadori (France) 

14:45-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-16:15 Treatment: pharmacological treatment, psychological intervention, deep brain stimulation by Kirsten Müller-Vahl (Germany)
16:15-17:15 How to answer FAQ from patients and families on etiology and pathophysiology of tic disorders by Tammy Hedderly (UK)
17:15-18:00 Cases: assessment and treatment by Nanette Mol Debes (Denmark)

Lecturers (in alphabetical order)

• Nanette Mol Debes, MD, PhD

Nanette Mol Debes is working as a neuro-pediatrician (combined research and clinical position) at the paediatric department, Herlev University Hospital in Denmark and a clinical associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. Read more. 

• Tammy Hedderly, MD

Tammy Hedderly is an acute paediatric neurologist working at Evelina London Children’s Hospital (Guys and St Thomas’) and is also an Adjunct Reader at Kings College, London. Read more.

• Kirsten Müller-Vahl, MD

Kirsten Müller-Vahl is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Department of Psychiatry, Social psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Hannover Medical School and specialist in both neurology and adult psychiatry. Read more.

• Christelle Nilles, MD

Christelle Nilles is a neurologist at the Neurology Department of the Rothschild Foundation Hospital in Paris, France and has recently completed a fellowship in movement disorders at the University of Calgary, Canada. Read more.

• Natalia Szejko, MD, PhD

Do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions! administrator@essts.org