EAN News

The EAN is a young Society and our purpose is to promote ‘Excellence in Neurology in Europe’.  This task has many facets and one of them is to engage more people in the Society. This process is presently underway.

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.

Here is the link to the latest issue: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.2014.21.issue-9/issuetoc Don’t forget: All members of EAN do have free online access to the journal via www.eaneurology.org. If you need help with logging in, please contact headoffice@eaneurology.org European Journal of Neurology –… Continue Reading

Franz Fazekas (FF): Building the EAN is a unique opportunity to strengthen the role and visibility of our specialty in patient care and clinical science throughout the continent and beyond.

Neurology is an important discipline and is rapidly developing. Recent economic studies have identified that one third of the European population is affected by a brain disease and they need treatment by neurologists, neurosurgeons and psychiatrists. The costs for these diseases are getting astronomic.

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.

by Peter Balicza The European Academy of Neurology Regional Teaching Courses aim to bring neurological standards to Eastern countries, and to establish friendly relationships with colleagues from other countries. As a participant and EAYNT (European Association of Young Neurologist and… Continue Reading

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 Joint Congress of European Neurology held in Istanbul, May 31-June 3, 2014, was attended by a total of 5923 persons. This year, the participants were asked to fill in an online congress evaluation form in order to receive a… Continue Reading

FREE Access to Guidelines The European Journal of Neurology, the official journal of the EAN,  publishes regular Guidelines.  These are highly popular, highly cited and a valuable reference to neurologists around the globe.  To celebrate the forming of the EAN,… Continue Reading

Preliminary information on the Congress from 28-31 May, 2016 can be found on www.eaneurology.org/copenhagen2016.

Here is the link to the latest issue: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.2014.21.issue-8/issuetoc?campaign=woletoc Don’t forget: All members of EAN do have free online access to the journal via www.eaneurology.org. If you need help with logging in, please contact headoffice@eaneurology.org. European Journal of Neurology –… 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 Günther Deuschl Dear colleagues, The European Academy of Neurology (EAN) has been founded on the 3rd of June 2014 in Istanbul. A new era of European neurology is starting because all neurologists in this part of the world have… Continue Reading