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The prize for the best presentation from Israel, awarded by the Neurological Association of Israel was awarded to: Polina Rabinovich Toidman

The 16th EFNS Congress in Stockholm from 8th to 11th September was terrific, the largest congress we have ever had with 5400 participants and a packed programme of main topic lectures, focussed workshops, oral presentations and poster sessions covering the whole spectrum of neurology. The programme was organised in collaboration with the Movement Disorder Society and by the European Federation of Autonomic Societies. Singling out individual items is invidious but the highlight of every congress is the EFNS clinical lecture, this year eloquently given by Professor Marie-Germaine Bousser from Paris on CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy). She told us about her first family with young onset stroke and migraine and cerebral white matter lesions.

Sten Grillner, President of FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies)

I write this from London where we are hosting and enjoying a wonderful Olympics, an honour which fell to Stockholm exactly 100 years ago.

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

5-7 July 2012 Novosibirsk, Russia
by Pavel Pilipenko The Teaching Course brought together leading neurologists of Germany, Russia, Greece, Czech Republic, Italy and Austria. More than 300 physicians were registered! – and that’s just only part of our participants, because… Continue Reading

by Edina Varga Thanks to the kind invitation and support of EFNS, the European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees (EAYNT) could represent junior neurologists on the last EFNS Regional Teaching Course (RTC) in Novosibirsk, Russia.
EFNS has for the… Continue Reading

We would like to bring your attention to the following sessions: Free Teaching Course: “How do I examine…?”
Saturday, 8 September 2012 – 9.30-11.00 – Hall K1 eBrain – Special Session
Sunday, 9 September 2012 – 14.30-15.00 – Hall T6… Continue Reading

As every year, the Scientist Panels will hold their Business Meetings during the EFNS Congress to discuss their ongoing activities. The aims of the EFNS Scientist Panels are: to co-ordinate clinical research at a European level to disseminate good neurological… Continue Reading

Heinz Reichmann is President of the European Neurological Society and Professor of Neurology at the TU Dresden, Germany. Richard Hughes is President of the European Federation of Neurological Societies and Emeritus Professor of Neurology at the King's College London and Honorary Professor at the University College London, UK.

Conflicts of interest between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry are a recurring theme in medical journals and the media. There are two main concerns:

Please register early for the Teaching Courses via the Congress Website www.efns.org/efns2012. There are still some tickets available. If you will not be able to attend the EFNS Teaching Courses, you can purchase a Syllabi CD-ROM at the EFNS Booth… Continue Reading

The problem of multiple sclerosis demands a multidisciplinary approach, so my clinical and research work made me face a lot of its serious issues: epidemiology, neurogenetics, neuroimmunology, diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation, and social care.

From 30 May till 2 June 2012 a regional teaching course of the European Federation of Neurological Societies in collaboration with the Movement Disorders Society and the Romanian Neurology Society was held in Iasi, Romania.

by Erich Schmutzhard and Eveline Sipido in Nairobi, Kenya 20th July 2012, organized by the European Federation of Neurological Societies  in cooperation with the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, the University of Nairobi, the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) and… Continue Reading