Date: 2nd July 2010

Where: The Wellcome Conference centre, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE. To view a map of the venue location, please click here.

What time: 9:30 - 16:00

Cost: £25, which includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day. Please email Research Manager Linnea Larsson at linnea@tourettes-action.org.uk for information on how to book a place.

Programme: You can request the programme by emailing us on linnea@tourettes-action.org.uk. The programme may be subject to some changes.

CPD credits: 5

The second meeting of the Tourettes Action Research Network (TARN) is open to all health professionals who are engaged in research related to Tourette syndrome (TS); from different areas such as psychiatry, neurology, psychology and education. The Tourettes Action Research Network is the direct outcome of Tourette’s Action’s Research Symposium which was held in Oxford in April 2008 and is a professional body that aims to support the development of research into TS and to facilitate multi-disciplinary TS research collaborations within the UK.

Confirmed speakers at the 2010 meeting include:

• Dr Diane Ruge - Institute of Neurology, University College London 

• Professor Georgina Jackson - Behavioural Sciences, Division of Psychiatry, The University of Nottingham

• Professor Shelley Channon - Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, University College London

• Professor Gavin Giovannoni - Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry

• Dr Cynthia Turner - Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London & South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

• Dr Hugh Rickards - The Department of Neuropsychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham

Please note that this is a closed event for researchers, health professionals and clinicians. If you have a research interest in TS and/or see patients with TS, please email Research Manager Linnea Larsson at linnea@tourettes-action.org.uk for further booking information.