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As in the previous years, EANpages asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, and invited speakers ‘which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Paris 2020. Please find their answers below!

Be part of the EAN congress in Paris and shape its programme! Send us your abstracts for both ePoster and oral presentations until January 15, 2020(23:59 CET)! Accepted abstracts will be presented at the 6th EAN congress and published in an online supplement to the European Journal of Neurology.

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On behalf of the Ethics and Quality Task Force and based on the results of the participants evaluations, we announce the best speakers/presenters of educational courses at 5th EAN congress in Oslo, 29 June – 2 July 2019. We congratulate… Continue Reading

On behalf of the Ethics and Quality Task Force and based on the results of the participants evaluations, we announce the best speakers/presenters of scientific courses at 5th EAN congress in Oslo, 29 June – 2 July 2019. We congratulate… Continue Reading

Abstract Submission for the Paris 2020 Congress is open!

Registration for the 6th EAN Congress in Paris, France, 23 May-26 May 2020, is now possible!

We would like to congratulate the winners of this year’s Investigator Award. The chosen winners  presented their work at the 5th EAN Congress in Oslo this Summer. The Investigator Award consists of a free registration to the 6th EAN Congress in Paris 2020 and an award certificate.

During the Assembly of Delegates at the Oslo Congress, Professor Deuschl acknowledged Professor Hannah Cock’s longstanding tribute to EAN and her outstanding achievements in the Education Committee.

Norway is located in the western and northern part of Scandinavia, and it is well known for its beautiful scenery with fjords and waterfalls along the coastline, its mountainous wilderness, and for Arctic regions with northern lights in the winter and midnight sun during the summer. Norway is one of Europe's most sparsely populated countries with 5.2 million people in a land area of 385,802 km2. The most densely populated area is around the city of Oslo in the south-east of the country. Oslo, the Norway’s capital, is the fastest-growing capital in Europe.

Prof. Fischer presented the first lecture on the subject of recanalization in acute stroke with a short review of the current status of acute stroke management and a focused discussion on a great deal of the unanswered questions concering reperfusion therapy, including the safety and contraindications of r-tPA, the risk of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage, intra-venous thrombolysis for minor strokes, wake-up strokes, extending the time window, the use of alteplase vs. tenecteplase as well as the unaswered questions regarding endovascular treatment, such as extending the time window, basilar occlusion, use in cases with either low NIHSS or low ASPECTS scores.

This year, at the annual hospital visit of the Resident and Research Fellow Section (RRFS) of the European Academy of Neurology, nearly 80 resident and research fellows visited to the Neurology Department of the Rikshospitalet, organized with the support of Dr. Silje Bjerknes, local resident and PhD candidate.

The last day of the Congress and time to take stock. Kell Morten Myhr summarised the field of multiple sclerosis (MS), which received 205 abstracts. Professor Myhr started his highlights with papers by Persson et al from Lexington reporting longitudinal observational survival data in MS and Stahmann et al from Hanover who reported variable rates of starting disease-modifying therapy. Professor Myhr considered that these papers together pointed toward a need to start MS therapy early. Prognostic blood biomarkers were then considered with vitamin D shown to predict long-term disability (Wesnes et al, Trondheim), whilst neurofilament light chain was associated with development of cognitive impairment in secondary progressive MS (Kuhle et al, Basel).