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The neurological examination has grown with our profession over the past 150 years. Neither the examination as a whole nor its individual parts have been subjected to the sort of rigorous evaluation which would command an instant Level A recommendation from an EFNS guideline panel. Nevertheless as a Good Practice Point the examination commands the leading position in the list of neurological investigations. Last year Johnston and Hauser, editors of the Annals of Neurology (volume 70, A10), called for research into the value of the different aspects of the “ethereal” neurological examination. The call was hotly debated in subsequent correspondence as being either overdue on the one hand or unnecessary and inappropriate on the other.

Like in the previous years the interest for attendance in our course was overwhelming. With sad heart we were forced to refuse applications of 90 colleagues. Out of those 136 accepted the majority have overcome various administrative obstacles (visas, permissions, insurance etc.) and after some cancellations 123 participants have come from 36 countries.

he Nobel Museum is a museum devoted to circulate information on the Nobel Prize, Nobel laureates from 1901 to present, and the life of the founder of the prize, Alfred Nobel (1833-1896). The museum is, together with the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Library, located in the former Stock Exchange Building (Börshuset) taking up the north side of the square Stortorget in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm.

Michael Brainin, Chair of the EFNS Scientific Committee

Authors and academics are in revolt against the tyranny of the giant publishing houses. There is a swing towards the growing numbers of free on line journals. Which side should the EFNS join in this rebellion?

One of my main interests in the field of Neurology is the study and treatment of Cerebrovascular Disorders. Stroke, the main representative of this issue, is the leading cause of disability and the second most common cause of death worldwide.

In order to benefit from the lower early registration rate,
please make sure to register by June 18, 2012. Please visit the congress website and register at: http://www2.kenes.com/efns/reg/Pages/Reg.htm   EFNS 2012: Don’t miss the early registration deadline! was last modified:… Continue Reading

The 2012 participants and winners of a travel grant to Stockholm and a free congress registration are: Tournament 1 – Clinical neurology
Sunday, 09 September 2012, 11:00-12:30h Barbara Casolla, France
Marian Galovic, Switzerland
Pietro Guaraldi, Italy
Roman Schniepp, Germany
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The congress quiz is online now until June 6, 2012: http://www.kenes.com/efns2012/quiz/ Answer all questions correctly, and you will perhaps win a free registration to the 16th EFNS congress in Stockholm, Sweden, September 8-11, 2012.   The EFNS Congress Quiz was… Continue Reading

2200 abstracts submitted to 16th EFNS Congress, Stockholm, Sweden The call for abstracts to be submitted for presentation at the 16th EFNS Congress, Stockholm, Sweden, September 08-11, 2012, was answered with a strong response of 2200 contributions. This number again… Continue Reading

All e-learning activities are free-of-charge for EFNS members, who are registered to www.efns.org! Answer all questions correctly and you will receive one hour of CME. European Journal of Neurology Every month one article is chosen for online learning. The following… Continue Reading

The work done by the European Board of Neurology (EBN) is impressive and the EFNS is very grateful. If the EBN did not exist the EFNS would have had to invent it and do the work ourselves. As it is we enjoy an intimate relationship with EBN. Two members of the EFNS sit on the EBN, Dr Marianne de Visser and Dr David Vodušek, and we have invited the President of the EBN to attend and speak to the Council of the EFNS in September in Stockholm. Clearly the training of our neurologists is of the utmost importance to European neurology. The care with which the EBN revised Chapter 6 of its educational charter incorporating the neurology training curriculum deserves our applause and thanks.

Philip Scheltens, Chair of the EFNS Scientist Panel Cognitive Neurology and Dementia

Research agenda. The European Brain Council have updated their 2006 consensus document on brain research (Di Luca,M. et al. 2011 Consensus document on European brain research. Eur. J. Neurosci. 33, 768-818). In a 50 page paper covering 43 topics Monica Di Luca and colleagues, including Past EFNS President Jes Olesen, have focused on seven fields:

In 2011 I performed a scientific fellowship on the role of the plasminogen system in pneumococcal meningitis at the Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, in Munich, Germany which was funded by an EFNS scientific fellowship grant.