Conferences and abstracts – Giulia Carli, PhD

2024 International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders (MDS), Philadelphia, United States. Poster presentations: (i) Cholinergic brain vulnerabilities associated with diabetic comorbidity in Parkinson disease and (ii) Exploring Vestibulopathy in PD: Distinguishing PD from Age-related Presbyvestibulopathy via Dynamic Gait and Balance Assessment
29th World Congress on Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders (IAPRD), Lisbon, Portugal. Poster presentation: Effects of Periventricular White Matter Lesions on PD Cognitive Deficits are Mediated by Limbic Cholinergic Deficits in PD. Selected for Guided poster tour
2024 SNMMI Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. Oral communication: Dynamic balance and gait impairments in Parkinson’s disease: Novel cholinergic patterns

MDS-ES Controversies in Parkinson’s Disease Research, Bordeaux, France. Participant.
IRBDSG Symposium and Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. Poster presentation: Longitudinal progression of PD cerebral metabolic signature in iRBD: a three-time point 8 years follow-up study
International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Copenhagen, Denmark. Poster presentation: Cholinergic system upregulation as a protective factor against cognitive decline in Parkinson’s Disease
25th Annual NINDS Udall Centers Meeting, Washington, USA. Oral communication: Cholinergic system upregulation as a protective factor against cognitive decline in Parkinson’s Disease

XV AIMN National Congress, Rimini, Italy. Speaker: Semiquantification in nuclear neurology. [¹⁸F]FDG PET: how, when, why?
International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Madrid, Spain. Poster presentation: Brain regional hypometabolism progression in iRBD: the cognitive role of occipital hypometabolism
Nuclear Neurology Basic Program, Pesaro, Italy. Lecturer: Foundations for a correct interpretation of [¹⁸F]FDG PET images: typical features of different pathologies and confounding elements
XVII SINDEM National Congress, Florence, Italy. Speaker: Gender studies in alpha-synucleinopathy spectrum, evidence from molecular imaging
2nd annual Dutch Parkinson Scientists Congress, Groningen, The Netherlands. Posters presentation:
- Longitudinal brain metabolism changes in isolated REM sleep behaviour disorder: occipital hypometabolism is associated with short-term conversion
- Sex differences in cholinergic denervation in Parkinson’s disease: a longitudinal study

8th Winter seminar on Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disorders, Bressanone, Italy. Oral communication: Metabolic neural connectivity of neurotransmission systems of α-synuclein spectrum
1st annual meeting of Rete IRCCS delle neuroscienze e della neuroriabilitazione, online. Oral communication: Metabolic neural connectivity of neurotransmission systems of α-synuclein spectrum. Awarded as Best oral presentation
XV SINDEM National Congress, online. Oral communication: Metabolic neural connectivity of neurotransmission systems of α-synuclein spectrum
Human Brain culture and consciousness, online. Participant.

XIV SINDEM National Congress, Florence, Italy. Oral communication: Noradrenergic network dysfunction in isolated REM beahviour disorder; Poster presentation: In vivo signatures neurodegeneration at individual level in isolated REM behaviour disorder
14th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease (AD/PD), Lisbon, Portugal. Poster presentation: Metabolic hallmark of Isolated Rem Behaviour Disorder: a single subject [¹⁸F]FDG PET-study
Alzheimer’s disease strategic roadmap 2019: Time for Tau, Geneva, Switzerland. Participant.

7th European Conference on Clinical Neuroimaging (ECCN), Bruxelles, Belgium. Oral communication: Brain metabolic connectivity and resting-state networks in sub-variants of the behavioural fronto-temporal dementia
XIII SINDEM National Congress, Florence, Italy. Participant.
24th Congress of The European Sleep Research Society, Basel, Switzerland. Poster presentation: Impaired visuo-spatial abilities in REM sleep Behaviour Disorder are detected by the quantitative scoring of Mini-Mental State Examination Pentagon Test; Poster presentation: From RBD to AD or mixed neurodegeneration? A case report
2nd Molecolar Imaging in Neurodegeneration Cologne (MINC) symposium, Cologne, Germany. Poster presentation: Brain hypometabolic patterns at single-subject level in Alzheimer’s disease variants

XII SINDEM National Congress, Florence, Italy. Poster presentation: Executive and social profiles in lifelong occupation as a proxy of cognitive reserve in bvFTD: a voxel-based [¹⁸F]FDG PET study