EAN News

Conflicts of interest (COI) in biomedical research are a matter of increasing interest, concern and debate and have led particularly over the last 10 years to a number of studies to analyse the problem and recommendations to avoid it. One of the last and most prominent recommendations is that of the Institute of Medicine in the US, in which COI were defined as follows: “a set of circumstances that creates a risk that professional judgement or actions regarding a primary interest will be unduly influenced by a secondary interest” (1).

In 2014, up to 5 scientific and up to 3 educational fellowships will be offered to support young European neurologists to carry out research projects in clinical and basic neurology. The objective is to support young and active neurologists wishing to expand their knowledge in neurology by working on scientific projects, and most of all, to study the practice of neurology in different countries, and thereby also creating new and international connections.

eBrain is calling for authors to write an eBrain case report. Would you be able to help? The case report of the month is designed as an educational item, learners will progress through a series of pages deciding how to… Continue Reading

I have had the great honor of being one of the neurologists selected by the EFNS Training and Education Committee for the 2012 Scientific Fellowship. I have spent a year in the Neurology Department of the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): Headache is one of the more/most frequent reasons for a patient to visit a hospital or emergency room. Would you agree with this statement?

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

When we started our speciality training in the UK and Switzerland in the 1970s and 1980s, general neurology was the backbone of clinical care and teaching in our countries (and most countries in Europe).

Online registration is now available for the Joint Congress of the European Neurology in Istanbul, Turkey.
You can profit from the early registration fee, if you organise your attendance before 20 March 2014.
Please log in/ register on www.efns.org, fill… Continue Reading

In the past year, the EFNS TEC has continued working with the same leader- and membership. The Committee consists of the following members:

In the past year the EFNS SubCommittee has continued working with a new leader- and membership. The SubCommittee consists of the following members:

The committee was founded in 2009 and the members are:

by Gunhild Waldemar and Eveline Sipido   I. Liaison Committee Revised Mandate Following the decision to form a joint EFNS-ENS Liaison Committee the mandate for the LC has been revised, and the list of LC members now also include ENS… Continue Reading

The members of the Scientific Committee (SC) at present are:

by Gian Luigi Lenzi Editor-in-Chief: Gian Luigi Lenzi
Co-editors: José Ferro, Christian Krarup, David B. Vodušek Editors: The EFNS Management Committee, ENS Executive Committee and the EFNS/ENS Transition Task Force have decided that Neuropenews should become the common newsletter of… Continue Reading

In the latest issue of the Communications from the European Neurological Society you will find information on: