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It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the Fellowship 2014 (in alphabetical order):

As Julia Scheidl, EFNS Staff member for almost 5 years is on maternity leave, the EFNS has hired Marion Russ and Claudia Schalk to help us execute our ever-growing daily tasks at the Headoffice.

Dr. Vicenzini is the Chairperson of the next which actually is the 19th Congress of the European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics (ESNCH) in Rome

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

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

I like to signal a couple of papers that could be worthwhile reading with a slightly more focused attention, since both are - to me - evidence of the growing impact of genetics in clinical studies.

by Delia Lenzi For a long time it has been a classical science fantasy. But the idea of gene therapy – introducing copies of normal genes into people who lack them, to cure disease – it may become science fact.… Continue Reading

Through the EFNS fellowship, I was able to carry out my project “Cerebral ischaemia measured using MRI spectroscopy (cerebral ischaemia study)” at the Acute Stroke research unit, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK chaired by Prof. Kennedy Lees. Doing this research from an interdisciplinary perspective has been a novel approach and I’m grateful I was able to begin my involvement with EFNS Scientific Fellowship at this stage in my career.

Finn Boerlum Kristensen is Chairman of the Executive Committee, European Network for HTA (EUnetHTA), and Director of the Coordinating Secretariat of EUnetHTA Joint Action, National Board of Health, Denmark

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

By Reha Tolun The history of diagnostic neuroradiology begins with the invention of x-ray and its application as craniography in the very early 20th century. A famous neurosurgeon, Dandy, was the first to perform pneumoencephalography in 1918. Drainage of spinal… Continue Reading

Dear readers, here are the papers published in the previous month, that I suggest to read:

by Delia Lenzi We know almost nothing about it (the brain, yes, again). And we’ve (re-)started with this conviction. Maybe because of this, it might be the right time. I really recomend you to spend some of your time watching… Continue Reading

For a period of 6 months, supported by the EFNS educational fellowship, I spent an amazing and enriching period of my life at the Child Neurology Department, Hospital San Joan De Deu, Barcelona, Spain, with Dr. A. Garcia Cazorla’s research team.

During the Joint Congress of European Neurology in Istanbul 2014 you will have a splendid programme to fill your heads with the latest in neurological science and clinical practice, but it is also very important to find the time to exchange ideas and set the basis for future co-operations, working groups or simply free your mind for the next day and next session.