June 2014

by Jan Kuks & Gabrielle Lohner
UEMS Section of Neurology – European Board Neurology Proving is improving. This was the drive for many candidates taking the 6th European Board examination in Neurology in Istanbul on May 30th. The examination has… Continue Reading

Top articles 2012 1 = Serologic diagnosis of NMO: a multicenter comparison of aquaporin-4-IgG assays.
Waters, PJ; McKeon, A; Leite, MI; et al.
NEUROLOGY  Volume: 78   Issue: 9   Pages: 665-671   Published: FEB 2012
Times Cited: 61 (from Web of Science… Continue Reading

This is a preliminary list of the top 10 2013 articles. A comment by Gian Luigi Lenzi can be found in the forum of this issue. 1. Alzheimer disease in the UnitedStates (2010-2050) estimated using the 2010 census
Hebert, LE.;… Continue Reading

Anthony Schapira, Editor in Chief, European Journal of Neurology interviews Gian Luigi Lenzi, Editor in Chief, Neuropenews Anthony Schapira (AS): Dear Gian Luigi, what are your reflections on the highlights of your participation in the EFNS? Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL):… Continue Reading

The EFNS Scientist Panels and ENS Subcommittees aim at coordinating different facets of clinical research and good neurological practice at a European level. They will play a very important role in the European Academy of Neurology – EAN. We invited… Continue Reading

At the Joint Congress of European Neurology in Istanbul several Symposia and Teaching Courses are recorded (http://efns2014.efns.org/Scientific-Programme-Satellite-Symposia.1153.0.html). These will be available soon on www.ebrainjnc.com. All EAN members will have unlimited access to the webcasts. All congress participants will have free… Continue Reading

Behçet’s disease (BD), originally described in 1937 by the Turkish dermatologist Hulusi Behçet, as a distinct disease with oro-genital ulceration and uveitis known as the “triple-symptom complex”, is an idiopathic chronic relapsing multisystem vascular-inflammatory disease of unknown origin.

Present academic and clinical positions: Professor of Neurology, Chairman of the Department of Neurology

Present academic and clinical positions: Professeur ordinaire & médecin Chef de service de neurologie, CHUV & University of Lausanne; Directeur du département des neurosciences cliniques, CHUV Lausanne; Executive co-director (medicine), Human Brain Project, EU; Professeur titulaire, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Honorary professor, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London

Present academic and clinical positions: Professor of Clinical Neurology and Head, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford; Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Oxford, University Hospitals Trust

by Delia Lenzi Here we are, researchers have announced the creation of a living cell that has two ‘foreign’ DNA building blocks in its genome. We can now start reading a new chapter of science: from the creation of microbes… Continue Reading

by Franz Gerstenbrand After the Second World War there was a collapse in neurology in Europe. The war divided the continent in two parts, in a Western influenced and in a Communistic part. Austria in the middle was a neutral… Continue Reading

by Wolf-Dieter Heiss I attended as a participant several of the early EFNS regional meetings and congresses: the first EFNS regional meeting 1993 in Berlin – a small event with 1000 participants, the 2nd EFNS Congress in Rome 1996 where… Continue Reading

Top 10 Articles versus Science Avalanche & Science from a Tweet

This, our last Presidents’ Page, marks the foundation of the EAN. It is adapted from our longer editorial in the European Journal of Neurology which will be the journal of the EAN.