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When I had just been appointed a consultant in 1975, a renal physician friend examined the contents of my smart new diagnostic bag: "ophthalmoscope, red pin, tuning forks, cotton wool, pins, orange sticks, tendon hammer, lots of things to find out what's wrong with people and nothing to get them better with!" Everyone laughed.

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Report by Emilija Cvetkovska The first EFNS Regional Teaching Course in Ohrid, Republic Macedonia, took place from 16th to 18th May 2013. There were 91 participants (10 speakers, 81 students). Very well-known speakers from Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Switzerland and… Continue Reading

The ENS 2013 annual meeting took place in Barcelona, Spain, 8–11 June 2013. Over 3,600 participants from 92 countries attended the 23rd annual meeting of the ENS. This represents the highest attendance at an ENS meeting to date.

Epilepsies are among the most common brain diseases of all. Epileptic seizures caused by a “short-circuit” of the brain affect or will affect 3.5% of the population at least once in life. Experts at the Congress of the European Neurological… Continue Reading

Although there are myriad new treatment options for multiple sclerosis, this disease is still hard to get under control. Experts at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona urged massive efforts to be made in pharmacogenetics so that… Continue Reading

At the Congress of the European Neurological Society held in Barcelona, researchers are discussing the advantages and disadvantages of OPs or catheter interventions to eliminate thrombi and arteriosclerotic plaque in acute cases. New insights into molecular processes could be the… Continue Reading

Experts at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona emphasised that neurological diseases not only cause considerable suffering and undermine people’s quality of life but also incur huge costs. A total of about 220 million people in Europe… Continue Reading

Robots could be instrumental in future in caring for dementia patients. A Spanish research team reported on initial successes in robotherapy for dementia patients at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona. According to WHO forecasts, the number… Continue Reading

With Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia on the rise worldwide, this subject has high priority in medical research. Groups of European researchers gave more than 50 presentations on dementia alone at the Congress of the European Neurological Society… Continue Reading

Experts at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona emphasised that sleep-wake disorders may be the first manifestation of serious neurological disorders. Nonetheless, neurological research has only recently begun to give sleep the attention it deserves. Multidisciplinary cooperation… Continue Reading

Italian scientists reporting at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona have sparked hopes in a future pharmacological therapy for treating pathological gambling. The researchers showed that the substance amantadine can substantially reduce important symptoms of this disorder.… Continue Reading

Video games have not only taken living rooms by storm but are also increasingly recognised as valuable support in the field of medicine. The same holds true for the treatment of patients who have lost certain sequences of movement and… Continue Reading

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

Do you shake hands with your patients? I think you should, usually. As a junior doctor I was impressed by the example of consultants who greeted their patients by shaking hands and adopted this as a life-long practice. I would not claim that shaking hands is diagnostically useful: the detection of extrapyramidal rigidity or myotonia is more likely to be made from special tests of tone than from the initial handshake.