EAN News

by David B. Vodusek and Eveline Sipido The neurological societies of the Maghreb held their 10th Congress in Tunis, Tunisia from December 3 – 5, 2015.
Prof. Riadh Gouider, President of the Tunisian Society of Neurology hosted the meeting. More… Continue Reading

The 2015 has been a very important year for the EAN, mainly signed by the celebration of the first EAN Congress in Berlin last June. Many other important achievements have been reached by the EAN during this year, thank to the hard and generous work of the EAN President, Executive Board, Committees, Panels, and so many other EAN members. This end of the year gives us the special opportunity to thank all who have contributed to the EAN successful development, and to invite everybody to look forward to even more and better to come.

is available now! Click here to read. The European Journal of Neurology is free of charge for EAN members! Log-in on www.eaneurology.org. If you encounter difficulties accessing the Journal, please contact headoffice@eaneurology.org. European Journal of Neurology – January 2016 issue… Continue Reading

See the latest Reviews Radiological imaging in acute ischaemic stroke Neuromyelitis optica: a positive appraisal of seronegative cases See  more on http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1468-1331/homepage/reviews.htm Did you see the Special Issue? ParadigMS Don’t miss the Invited Reviews Virtual Issue See the latest Special… Continue Reading

The European Academy of Neurology was founded just 18 months ago and is becoming increasingly accepted as a hub for scientific knowledge and premier education (please see the EAN movie). This is reflected in the number of neurologists and trainees who join the EAN as members. To remind you: EAN has close to 25 000 associated members from 47 national European Member Societies, but accepts neurologists wanting to upgrade their membership as individual members.

David Vodušek (DV): The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) declared at the last World Congress on Pain in Buenos Aires that the period, October 2014 to December 2015, would be the Global Year Against Neuropathic Pain. What do you consider the most important achievement of this action? Chris Wells (CW): The Global Year Against Pain evolved from an idea of David Niv’s, former European Pain Federation (EFIC) President and IASP Council member. He conceived the idea of a Day Against Pain in 2001 and this developed into first a Week and then a Year Against Pain, which IASP and EFIC now jointly sponsor and promote.

Elena Moro (EM): As Programme Committee Chair, can you share you vision about the role of the EAN within the community of European Neurologists? Paul Boon (PB): I believe EAN has a unique mission to provide a platform for neurology in Europe, at a large scale and high level of professionality. Europe has a strong tradition of clinical discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and academic teaching in the field of neurology.

Only 6 more weeks until Abstract Submission Deadline on January 13, 2016.

Many European Neurologists are aware of Neuropenews, the blog/newsletter of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN). Neuropenews is a platform free to all EAN members and persons interested.
The main objective of Neuropenews is to effectively communicate news in the… Continue Reading

The EAN Liaison Committee (LC) is the meeting point and link for all activities and contacts that the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) has with neurology related activities and societies. The LC creates the ideal platform for all elements of the EAN’s external work to come and link together and develops new contacts with societies related to the field of neurology.

The EAN Liaison Committee (LC) is the meeting point and link for all those activities and contacts the EAN has with neurology related and other societies. The LC thus creates the platform for all elements of EAN’s external work to… Continue Reading

by Tim von Oertzen A new definition and classification of status epilepticus (SE) was recently published as Report of the ILAE Task Force on Classification of Status Epilepticus.
The new definition is applicable to all sorts of status. It includes… Continue Reading

online now! Click here to read. The European Journal of Neurology is free of charge for EAN members! Log-in on www.eaneurology.org. If you encounter difficulties accessing the Journal, please contact headoffice@eaneurology.org Just published!  Practical recommendations for the process of proposing,… Continue Reading

Register to the EAN Congress 2016 in Copenhagen only via www.eaneurology.org and www.eaneurology.org/copenhagen2016! Any congress registration purchased via a different website will be invalid. If you are not sure where to register, please contact the EAN Head Office at headoffice@eaneurology.org.… Continue Reading

Many political decisions within the health system are critical depending on the number of patients affected by a particular disease group and hence which discipline of medicine is responsible for the care of these patients. This applies for budgets for health care, number of beds for a particular disease group, overall budget for a discipline within a hospital, budgets for out- or inpatients care, but also percentage of research money which goes into particular fields of medical research. Also, the general public counts on these measures because mortality, morbidity and costs of disease are important to determine the importance of a disease group and usually, the higher the numbers the more important is the disease.