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EAN Department-Department Co-operation Programme Application Deadline: November 30, 2014 Since 2001, this training activity is highly appreciated by participants and hosting departments. Each grant is amounting to € 1,500.- plus travel expenses of up to € 300.-. The purpose of… Continue Reading

The UEMS EBN examination will be held one day prior to the 1st congress of the European Academy of Neurology in Berlin. http://www.uems-neuroboard.org/ebn/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=67n Date: Friday, June 19th, 2015 Venue: City Cube Berlin – Messe Berlin GmbH, Messedamm 22, 14055 Berlin,… Continue Reading

Report from Dr. Naida Nasrullayeva from Azerbaijan visiting the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Copenhagen, Denmark under the supervision of Doctor Michael Oettinger. First of all, I would like to thank EFNS (EAN) for the opportunity to visit… Continue Reading

Rudolf Martini, Würzburg, Germany, was the first speaker of this session and talked about opportunities for treatment of CMT diseases. At the moment, there is no cure for these genetic neuropathies. Studies (mouse and human) with many substances studied, such as ascorbic acid, progesterone antagonist, curcumin, neurotrophin 3, carried out without success.

Neuropenews: How does it feel to be Chair of the “EAN Education Committee” and what is your main message to the neuro-community?

Professor Paul Boon works at the Ghent University Hospital, Department of Neurology, Belgium

Call for applications for the Chief Editor of Neuropenews, the newsblog of the EAN and the Chief Editor of the website of the European Academy of Neurology The European Academy of Neurology has two major publication organs besides the scientific… Continue Reading

 We have learned from Dr Paolo Giannetti, Italy, that his research supported by the EFNS Fellowship in 2009 has recently been published in Neurobiology of Disease, 65 (2014) 203-210: “Microglia activation in multiple sclerosis black holes predicts outcome in progressive… Continue Reading

First of all I would like to thank the EAN Head Office, Julia Mayer, the EAN Education committee, especially Professor Detlef Kömpf, and all our invited speakers for their support in organising the Regional Teaching Course in Baku.

The 6th Regional Training Course in Sub-Saharan Africa addressing Neurology took place from 19th to 21st June in Lusaka, Zambia and was hosted by the University of Zambia. The training was organised by the EAN and was supported by a consortium of European, international scientific societies and the Zambian Government, namely:

The European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) will host its 22nd Congress in Tallinn, Estonia, from 16 – 20 September, 2014. This congress presents an opportunity for neurologists interested in sleep research and sleep medicine. Please find below a few of… Continue Reading

Professor Jan Kuks is Head of the Examination Committee at the Section of Neurology, UEMS, chairs the EAN Sub-committee on CME and works at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands The UEMS is the largest European Medical Organisation (EMO),… Continue Reading

by Hannah Cock Epilepsy is one of the commonest serious neurological conditions, on a par with stroke and dementia so whatever your field, you need to know at least the basics. July also hosts the European Congress of Epileptology in… Continue Reading

by Delia Lenzi Villeda et al. (but many others are working on this) in a series of elegant experiments demostrate that age-related synaptic alterations might be reversible. Authors use parabiois to show that young blood contains a factor that reverses… Continue Reading

he first paper that I would like to point out to our readers is “Use of a novel high-resolution magnetic resonance neurography protocol to detect abnormal dorsal root ganglia in Sjögren patients with neuropathic pain: case series of 10 patients and review of the Literature”, published in Medicine; May 2014; Vol. 93; Issue 3 ; p. 121-134.