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Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): Can you give a brief overview of the epidemiology of neurological disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) especially in relation to epilepsy?

by Delia Lenzi In a continent where people die for so many common and well known causes, it is easy to neglect other clinical conditions. Konzo and nodding syndrome are two particularly nasty neurological members of this class and do… Continue Reading

Introduction by Gian Luigi Lenzi As Editor-in chief of Neuropenews, I have preferred, so far, not to write any particular Introductions to the Interviews that Neuropenews publishes monthly, kindly released by public authorities in the Neurological world and elsewhere.
Our… Continue Reading

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

By Klemens Fheodoroff Neurorehabilitation has a long tradition in Austria. Already in 1951 the first European rehabilitation centre for spinal cord injury patients opened in Austria. In 1956 a Polio rehabilitation centre for children opened in Hermagor, Carinthia. In 1968… Continue Reading

The Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Foundation – call for nominations: The Brain Prize, which is to be awarded for the fourth time in May 2014. The Prize recognizes highly original and influential advances in research on the nervous system.… Continue Reading

Advancing neurology and neuroscience, the increase of brain disorders and the challenge for more brain health are hot topics in the general panorama of science and health.

Report by Emilija Cvetkovska The first EFNS Regional Teaching Course in Ohrid, Republic Macedonia, took place from 16th to 18th May 2013. There were 91 participants (10 speakers, 81 students). Very well-known speakers from Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland and… Continue Reading

The ENS 2013 annual meeting took place in Barcelona, Spain, 8–11 June 2013. Over 3,600 participants from 92 countries attended the 23rd annual meeting of the ENS. This represents the highest attendance at an ENS meeting to date.

Epilepsies are among the most common brain diseases of all. Epileptic seizures caused by a “short-circuit” of the brain affect or will affect 3.5% of the population at least once in life. Experts at the Congress of the European Neurological… Continue Reading

Although there are myriad new treatment options for multiple sclerosis, this disease is still hard to get under control. Experts at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona urged massive efforts to be made in pharmacogenetics so that… Continue Reading

Experts at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona emphasised that neurological diseases not only cause considerable suffering and undermine people’s quality of life but also incur huge costs. A total of about 220 million people in Europe… Continue Reading

At the Congress of the European Neurological Society held in Barcelona, researchers are discussing the advantages and disadvantages of OPs or catheter interventions to eliminate thrombi and arteriosclerotic plaque in acute cases. New insights into molecular processes could be the… Continue Reading

Robots could be instrumental in future in caring for dementia patients. A Spanish research team reported on initial successes in robotherapy for dementia patients at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona. According to WHO forecasts, the number… Continue Reading

With Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia on the rise worldwide, this subject has high priority in medical research. Groups of European researchers gave more than 50 presentations on dementia alone at the Congress of the European Neurological Society… Continue Reading