Plenary Sessions
| Plenary Lecture 01* |
Fulton Award Lecture – Monitoring and Engineering Memory Engram Cells and their Circuits |
Susumu Tonegawa | Japan |
| Plenary Lecture 02 | Precision Medicine in TBI: Lessons from Dopaminergic Treatment of Cognitive Impairment | David Sharp | United Kingdom |
| Plenary Lecture 03* | Innovative Cybernic Interface in Neurology | Yoshiyuki Sankai | Japan |
| Plenary Lecture 04* | Neurology Diseases Global Burden | Valery Feigin | New Zealand |
| Plenary Lecture 05* | Masland Award Lecture - Spatial Navigation Mechanisms of The Brain | Thomas Brandt | Germany |
| Plenary Lecture 06* | Neurological Manifestations of Congenital Zika Syndrome | Andre Pessoa | Brazil |
| Plenary Lecture 07* | Neurology Atlas | Tarun Dua, WHO | Switzerland |
| Plenary Lecture 08 | Recent Progress in IPS Cell Research and Application | Shinya Yamanaka | Japan |
| Plenary Lecture 09* | Singhal Award Lecture - Targeted Therapies for Dominant Ataxias | Stefan Pulst | USA |
| Plenary Lecture 10* | Physician Workplace Stress - is it Only an American Phenomenon? | Terrence Cascino | USA |
* A number of plenaries were recorded live at the WCN 2017. These have been made possible by kind permission of the speakers. Recordings may be accessed by healthcare professionals only for informational and educational purposes. Click here to access.
WFN Medals Presentation
- Medal for Services to International Neurology
Jun Kimura, Japan
Citation: Hidehiro Mizusawa, Japan
- Medal for Scientific Achievement in Neurology
Angela Vincent, United Kingdom
Citation: Kevin Talbot, United Kingdom
- Lifetime Achievement Award
Jagjit Chopra, India
Citation: Chandrashekhar Meshram, India
Presidential Symposium & Soriano Award Lecture
- Grid Cells and the Medial-Entorhinal Space Network
Edvard Moser, Norway
- Defining the Future of Neurology - Japan, Asia and Oceania
Hidehiro Mizusawa, Japan
- Global Neurology Challenges and Way Forward
Raad Shakir, United Kingdom
- WFN President Elect View for the Four Years Ahead
William Carroll, Australia
