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Emilio Perucca is President-Elect of ILAE (International League Against Epilepsy).

A massive study of the global burden of disease has been published in the most recent issue of the Lancet (Horton 2012). It reports the mortality, causes of death, years lived with disability and disability-adjusted life years for 291 conditions in 21 regions taking into account 67 risk factors. Between 1990 and 2010 the world population has risen from 3.7 to 6.9 billion people.

From September until November 2012 a questionnaire on how our readers like Neuropenews was online.
Unfortunately we did not get much response, i.e. only 90 persons filled in the form. Still it was interesting to see the opinion of this… Continue Reading

Professor Babro Westerholm is a Swedish Liberal People's Party politician. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006. She was previously a member from 1988 to 1999. From the mid 1960s Westerholm was an early pioneer in the field of pharmacovigilance, also working on the early stages of the WHO Drug Dictionary and the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring.

Sherlock Holmes lived round the corner from my home at the fictitious address of 221b Baker Street. His larger than life statue nurses his traditional pipe as he greets travellers emerging from Baker Street underground station. For him evidence might be as little as a trace of mud on the soles of a suspect’s shoes. For neurologists observation may be adequate evidence for a clinical diagnosis and observational evidence may even suffice for some treatments.

Immunological features of late-onset myasthenia (LOMG) in comparison to early-onset myasthenia (EOMG).

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

Neuropenews is pleased that the interview with Professor Martino is published now that the Nobel Prize was received by John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka. It is important that together with the relevance given to stem cell therapy, patients are also cautioned about the actual limitation of this approach and about the fact that unethical medical groups may – without any clinical result - profit from the glamour.

The derivation of the word Europe is uncertain. It may come from a Phoenician word meaning “the west” or another meaning “of a white or fair aspect”. It has nothing to do with the mythical maiden Europa who was abducted from Phoenicia (the region around modern Lebanon) by Jupiter disguised as a bull: she rode on his back to Crete where in due course she gave birth to Minos. Homer used the word Europe to define the area around Greece.

Application deadline: 31 December 2012

by Vitalie Lisnic The profile of the participants of the teaching courses (TCs) of the 16th EFNS Congress was analyzed for the 8th consecutive time since the 9th EFNS Congress in Athens, 2005. At the Congress in Stockholm 647 TC… Continue Reading

In 2011, I got the unique chance to carry out a project investigating changed pain inhibition with patients with complex regional pain syndrome at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany supported by the EFNS scientific fellowship.

Israel Steiner, Chair of the EFNS Scientist Panel on Infectious Diseases

16th EFNS Congress, Stockholm 2012 Another tournament for young neurologists took place at the EFNS Congress in Stockholm.
In two sessions, twelve young scientists presented their outstanding work. Again we could also award the runner-up prize in each session. We… Continue Reading

We congratulate the winners of the EFNS Investigator Awards 2012! The Prize consists of an Award certificate & €500,- Federica Agosta, Milan, Italy: Functional network connectivity in the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on… Continue Reading