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Here is the link to the latest issue: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.2014.22.issue-1/issuetoc?campaign=woletoc Don’t forget: All members of the EAN 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

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As Chair of the MDS-European Section, can you illustrate the role you would like the EAN to cover within the world of European Neurology? Olivier Rascol (OR): In my view, the EAN has crucial strategic and practical roles to cover in order to reinforce the knowledge of neurological disorders and improve the care of neurological patients in Europe and worldwide.

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): Can you briefly describe the Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe (Biomed Alliance). Gustave Moonen (GM): The Alliance for biomedical research in Europe (Biomed Alliance) is a non-profit organisation founded in 2010 by four societies namely the European Cancer Organisation (ECCO), the European Respiratory Society (ERS), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).

Neurological diseases are seriously affecting life quality of the patients. Many of these diseases are followed by life-long disabilities or the patients even need care for the rest of their lives. Our daily work for the patients with neurological diseases transfers for politicians into costs for the Society and a recent analysis has found the annual costs for neurological diseases in Europe to be >300.000 Mio €¹, which is more than the annual budget of the German government.

Please register early for the Teaching and Hands-on Courses via the Congress Website. There are still tickets available. As in previous years, printed manuscripts as well as a CD-Rom with the manuscripts of all Teaching and Hands-on Courses can be… Continue Reading

Report from Dr Khristina Derevyanko from Russia visiting the Danish Headache Center, Glostrup Hospital, Denmark under the supervision of Dr Jes Olesen.

Here is the link to the latest issue:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.2014.21.issue-12/issuetoc?campaign=woletoc Don’t forget: All members of the EAN 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

The Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for 2014 has been awarded to three neuroscientists; John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser.  They have received the prize for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. May-Britt and Edvard Moser is a young, married couple from Trondheim, Norway, that during the last decade has published a series of Science and Nature papers on the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex of the brain. They show how the brain creates a map of the space surrounding us and how we can navigate through a complex environment by using these cells.

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As Chair of the Liaison Committee, can you illustrate the role you give to EAN within the community of European neurologists? David Vodušek (DV): We Europeans have become accustomed to “European institutions”. Although – related to… Continue Reading

The Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is one of the most important medical awards and goes this year to Mahlong R. Delong, Atlanta, USA and Alim Benabid, Grenoble, France for the ‘development of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS), a surgical technique that reduces tremors and restores motor function in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease’.

Since 2001, this training activity has been highly appreciated by participants and hosting departments. Each grant is amounting to € 1,500.- plus travel expenses of up to € 300.-. The purpose of this award is to support the accommodation and board expenses in the city of practice. The grant is supposed to allow a visit of a six weeks duration. If a participant is able to accept a low budget board, it may be possible to stay longer than six weeks in the hosting department.

Report from Dr Pawel Chochol from Poland visiting the Department of Neurology at the Royal London Hospital, United Kingdom under the supervision of Dr Salek-Haddadi. I visited the United Kingdom on an eight-week Department-Department Co-Operation Programme at the Royal London… Continue Reading

I would like to express my gratitude towards the European Academy of Neurology for the honour to organize the Regional Teaching Course in Sofia, Bulgaria which proved to be an event excelling in terms of attendance and content. In this respect I would like to thank all the invited speakers for their great responsiveness and support.

by Gian Luigi Lenzi Neuropenews has recently received the request to publish in the „Interviews“ section an interview where an eminent neurologist A was interviewing a second eminent neurologist B who had been awarded a prize in the country of… Continue Reading