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I am Nina Khizanishvili, a young neurologist from Tbilisi, Georgia. I currently work in Germany but I still get a lot of information about the situation in the First University Clinic of Tbilisi State Medical University in my home country.

The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in my French region and also in Grenoble has radically changed how teaching classes have been organised in our Grenoble Alpes University Medical School. To better explain these changes, I need to illustrate how… Continue Reading

For 2020, we have selected: Shahnawaz M, Mukherjee A, Pritzkow S et al. Discriminating α-synuclein strains in Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy.

As any place in Europe and beyond, the French health system is still under pressure and Covid-19 has already and will profoundly change healthcare.

As soon as the dramatic developments in our European fellow countries Italy, France, and Spain came to our attention, an emergency plan was deployed across the country. Besides coordinating logistics of allocating protection gear and respirators, all hospitals with the respective competence and resources in intensive care medicine have systematically ramped up their capacities.

Giovanni Di Liberto, MD-PhD Chair, RRFS – Residents and Research Fellows Section of the EAN Dr. Thomas Jenkins, Chair of the EAN e-Communication Committee interviews: Dear Dr. Di Liberto, You recently took over the leadership of the RRFS EAN section.… Continue Reading

Despite some positive slowing of new cases and deaths in some countries, the COVID-19 pandemic has infected until today over 3.5 million people, leading to more than 250,000 deaths across the globe. Without a doubt, the crisis sparked by this pandemic has also wreaked havoc on healthcare systems and economies while causing massive disruption to the everyday lives of people around the world.

Prof. B. Bodini interviews Mrs. Joke Jaarsma, President of EFNA – European Federation of Neurological Associations

Prof. Dafin Muresanu, Chair of the EAN Communication Committee interviews Dr. Bart van der Worp, President of the European Stroke Organisation.

The latest revision (v3) of the Guidance on how to manage clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic was published on 28 April. This version contains key changes based also on the feedback from different stakeholders’ groups (patients’ organisations, academia and… Continue Reading

France is a country of tradition and innovation: France was a pioneer country in Neurology since the 19th century, with seminal clinical and pathological description of many neurological diseases by Charcot (1825-1893) in Salpêtriere hospital in Paris and his colleagues, illustrated by the famous painting by Brouillet “a clinical lesson at the Salpêtriere”.

It is our great pleasure to inform you that the 6th EAN Congress and first Virtual Congress has reached more than 13,000 registered participants!