Me too! So happy to have Lincolnshire trusts on board !

As usual we met up with the ‘Belgians’ AKA Prof. Gillebert’s empire for dinner and amazing discussions. Also Prof Randi Starrfelt and Dr Ro Robathom from Copenhagen for much needed catch ups.

Additionally, seeing old colleagues who have moved on to bigger and better places to advance their career, including Ibe Couwels (now in Prof. Céline Gillebert research group) and Valeska Kozik who has competed her PhD with Prof. Kathrin Finke and Prof. Matthias Schwab.

Personal highlights included seeing Paula Grammatikos present her MSc work and how she presented the complicated case of mental capacity assessment. Paula is now moving to Aarhus as as a research assistant to begin with.

Another highlight of the conference was meeting up in person with the FESN Stroke Interest Group and stimulating discussion around cultural impacts on cognitive test performance.

Hi Chloe thanks for the question- there are overlap in stimuli and tasks between the OCS and Mini-OCS. We don’t yet know what is the perfect time between tasks, if you find out let us know a good range !

That’s true, and indeed the full OCS is global, but we don’t have translations available. We do have intentions to make the test global via adaptations in the future but we don’t have funding for this currently.

Hi Alba thanks for getting in contact. We need to do some further research to assess feasibility in primary care settings (think, GPs), to establish how best to use it. I’d love to see it rolled out nationwide eventually as part of a 6-month stroke review.

Link to paper --> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

First one was so good! Such a critical and helpful experience. Looking forward to the next few workshops.