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The Norwegian population is small, stable, and well organized. Despite having seen increasing urbanization and immigration in recent years, the population of 5.3 million inhabitants is remarkably stable. Specialist health services are close to 100 % publicly financed and equally available to all. All inhabitants have unique Personal Identification Numbers and can easily be identified across a broad range of mandatory and voluntary public registries. Seventeen central, mandatory health registries are being used for health analysis and statistics, quality improvement, research, administration and emergency preparedness. These include the Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Norwegian Cause of Death Registry, Norwegian Patient Registry and Norwegian Prescription Database.

The EAN Scientific Committee met on Sunday, March 03, 2019 at the EAN Head Office in Vienna for the first time in its new configuration. The focus of the Scientific Committee (SC) for the next two years is to increase the exchanges, synergies and interactions with the Scientific Panels, that are the backbone of the European Academy of Neurology.

There are companies, websites and/or individuals who incorrectly claim or imply that they are partners of the 5th EAN Congress.

Dear colleagues and friends, I am very excited that the EAN-family will meet again in Oslo in less than three months. I can assure you that all preparations are full on track.

For April 2019, we have selected: Kellinghaus C, Rossetti AO, Trinka E, et al.  Factors predicting cessation of status epilepticus in clinical practice: Data from a prospective observational registry (SENSE). Ann Neurol 2019;85:421-432.

The Republic of North Macedonia is a country in the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe. Our neighboring countries include Serbia and Kosovo to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south, and Albania to the west. North Macedonia is a parliamentary republic with 2 million inhabitants. The capital and the largest city is Skopje.

The 2019 participants of the EAN Tournament for Neurologists in training will receive a travel grant, free congress registration and up to four nights’ of hotel accommodation for the Lisbon Congress: Tournament 1 – Basic neurology Sunday, 30 June 2019,… Continue Reading

Aiming for treatment they have spent more than 30 years describing, understanding and diagnosing the most common hereditary form of stroke, CADASIL. For this, the four French neuroscientists are now receiving the world's most valuable prize for brain research – the Lundbeck Foundation Brain Prize, worth 1 million euros.

Dear Dr Santuccione-Chadha thank you for very much accepting this interview for EANpages. The EAN, as leading European society in the field of neurology, is very interested in the WBP. Could you summarize the project to the readers of EANpages? The Women’s Brain Project (WBP) is an interdisciplinary, global non-profit organization founded in 2016 in Switzerland. Composed of academic and social scientists, medical doctors, engineers, patients, caregivers, artists and AI experts, WBP works to identify specific needs related to women’s brain and mental health, advocate for change, and position the findings for the benefit of society.

The Israeli Neurological Association held the first EAN Day in Israel on December 10, a day prior to its Annual Conference. We were honored to host several prominent speakers from the European community of neurologists, who shared their current views with local neurologists in beautiful surroundings and convivial atmosphere. Prof. Philip Scheltens from the Alzheimer Center of VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam discussed recent developments in diagnostics of Alzheimer's disease.

    by Professor Dafin Mureşanu       Specialists in neurology and psychiatry from Moscow and many regions of Russia  and eminent international speakers gathered in Moscow for a multidisciplinary conference on “Advances In Neuroscience And New Strategies For… Continue Reading

As in the previous years, EANpages asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, and invited speakers  which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Oslo 2019. Please find their answers below!

In December European Academy of Neurology and European Stroke Organization organized in collaboration with Lupin Pharmaceuticals the 9th Knowledge Exchange Programme Conference in Mumbai.

As part of the History of Neuroscience Session “The men behind the neuron theory”, that is held on Monday, July 1 in Room Berlin from 08:00 – 09:30, there is an optional visit of Fridtjof Nansen's home Polhøgda just outside Oslo on Monday, July 1 at 12:30. The visit can also be booked stand alone without attending the session.

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) became famous as arctic explorer, politician, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. What is less known, is that Fridtjof Nansen was the first Norwegian to achieve a Ph.D. in brain research. He was curator at Bergen Museum, where he studied the nervous system in primitive animals. He published his thesis in 1887. He showed that nerve cells did not work as a syncytium, but as single cells within membranes, and with no direct connections between them. He was the first to formulate and give substantial proof for the neuron theory that later gave Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Camillo Golgi the Nobel Prize in 1906. In his thesis Nansen wrote: