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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.

Staré Splavy, Hotel Bezděz, Czech Republic
May, 9-12, 2013 Our 14th course took place during the month of May, which was labelled by the European Union as European Month of the Brain to raise awareness of the importance of brain-related… Continue Reading

The 2012 journal impact factors have been released on 24 June and EFNS is delighted to inform the European Journal of Neurology has an IF of 4.162, up from 3.692 in 2011. Top 10 cited articles 2012 from the European… Continue Reading

The EFNS Scientist Panels and ENS Sub-committees 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

The European Commission held two major events during May to celebrate the European Month of the Brain under the Presidency of the Republic of Ireland.

by Liliia Zviagina First of all I would like to thank the EFNS Head Office, Lisa Müller and Julia Mayer, the EFNS TC committee, especially Professor Detlef Kömpf, and all our invited speakers for their mutual support in organising the… Continue Reading

All e-learning activities are free-of-charge for EFNS members 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 articles are… Continue Reading

The European Month of the Brain (EMoB) in May 2013 is sure to be a fantastic showcase of up and coming research and policy issues.

The EFNS Scientist Panels and ENS Sub-committees 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

Neurologists need no persuasion that the brain is the most important organ in the body and neurology and its allied specialties, including psychiatry, the most important in medicine. Just occasionally we need to remind the world of these truths. We now have the opportunity to do just that because the European Commission has declared May as the official European Month of the Brain 2013.

I had the unique chance of being one of the young neurologists chosen by the EFNS Education Committee to perform a 6-month educational program in the National Reference Centre for Neuromuscular Disease (Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Institut de Myologie, Paris, France) under the supervision of Professor Jean-Marc Léger.

On February 20, 2013 EFNS Admin, including EFNS Head Office and the EFNS Branch Offices Prague and Florence passed the recertification audit and received the certificate confirming the application and further development of an effective Quality Management System complying with the requirements of standard ISO 9001:2008.

Alan J. Thompson is Dean of the Faculty of Brain Science at the University College London and the first ever recipient of ECTRIMS Award of Honorary Membership 2012 Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): What are the recent achievements in the diagnosis… Continue Reading

The EFNS Management Committee meets twice a year, once at our Annual Congress, and once in early March in our Vienna Head Office. We have just held our March 2013 meeting and had a busy agenda. Some highlights: