The Irish Society of Clinical Neurophysiology​ Meeting – 10 to 11th Sept, Dublin.

A Scientific meeting of the Irish Society of Clinical Neurophysiology​ (ISCN) scientific meeting was hosted by Dr Sean Connolly on 10th and 11th September 2026 at Hilton Dublin Kilmainham. 

The meeting was a massive success with an extremely high standard of clinical and scientific research presented in platform and poster formats over the two days.

The highlight of the meeting was two fantastic lectures from guest speakers from Professor Satu Jääskeläinen, Director of Medical Imaging and Professor of Clinical Neurophysiology and Professor Tero J. Taminen, Chief Psychiatrist, University of Turku, Finland.

The awards of best platform and poster presentations at the meeting was as follows: 

Award of Best Platform Presentation

Expert-level detection of low-voltage intervals in EEG as a robust biomarker of neonatal encephalopathy”
J O’Toole, SR Mathieson, A Luca, S Ventura, S Griffin, G Boylan, R Hogan.
INFANT Research Centre, University College Cork and Cork University Hospital.

Award of Best Poster Presentation

Estimation of normal nerve conduction study range: data mining compared to conventional methods”.
M Devereux, C Elliott, N Claffey, A Bjerke, S. Connolly.
St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin

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