Neuropenews: How does it feel to be Chair of the “EAN Education Committee” and what is your main message to the neuro-community?
We are offering an open forum for neurological agenda arising from daily practice of neurology, educating (or receiving education) in neurology, research in neurology, working or clashing with other specialities, confrontations with bureaucracies…
We invite you to either contribute your own observation, commentary or story, or else suggest a particular hot topic, which you think should be elaborated further.
We shall invite members of the EAN Committees, Scientist panels, Sub-committees, particularly chairpersons, but also other leading neurologist across Europe to give their opinion.
Please send your contribution to newsletter@eaneurology.org.
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Professor Paul Boon works at the Ghent University Hospital, Department of Neurology, Belgium
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Call for applications for the Chief Editor of Neuropenews, the newsblog of the EAN and the Chief Editor of the website of the European Academy of Neurology The European Academy of Neurology has two major publication organs besides the scientific… Continue Reading
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One of the most significant current changes in the organisation of medical education in Europe is the falling level of pharmaceutical company financial support for congresses.
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We have learned from Dr Paolo Giannetti, Italy, that his research supported by the EFNS Fellowship in 2009 has recently been published in Neurobiology of Disease, 65 (2014) 203-210:
“Microglia activation in multiple sclerosis black holes predicts outcome in progressive… Continue Reading -
The couple of papers that I would like to point out to our readers are strictly related, and their relevance stream out of the fact that at least 1 person is diagnosed every minute with neurodegenerative dementia ( mainly Alzheimer’s disease, but FTD and Lewy Body Disease as well), but scientists have not yet found a cure for both the disease itself and/or its symptoms progression.
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No doubt, the evidence is piling up: misfolded protein pathologies can spread throughout the nervous system in a prion-like fashion. Diseases and proteins concerned include Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal lobe dementia (Tau), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SOD1) and Parkinson’s disease (α-synuclein).… Continue Reading
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by Delia Lenzi Villeda et al. (but many others are working on this) in a series of elegant experiments demostrate that age-related synaptic alterations might be reversible. Authors use parabiois to show that young blood contains a factor that reverses… Continue Reading
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he first paper that I would like to point out to our readers is “Use of a novel high-resolution magnetic resonance neurography protocol to detect abnormal dorsal root ganglia in Sjögren patients with neuropathic pain: case series of 10 patients and review of the Literature”, published in Medicine; May 2014; Vol. 93; Issue 3 ; p. 121-134.
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Call for Applications for the Chair of the Education Committee and the Programme Committee of the European Academy of Neurology
Call for applications for the
Chair of the Education Committee
of the European Academy of Neurology Candidates should
• be European neurologists and EAN members with experience in the field of medical education
• be neurologists with a track record… Continue Reading -
Today, during the first General Assembly of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), the officers of the Board were elected by 72 institutional and individual delegates from 45 member countries of the Society. President: Günther Deuschl, Germany
Vice President: Franz… Continue Reading -
It’s a pleasure to briefly explain why I am applying for the position of the President of the EAN. The most important attraction is to form this new European Academy of Neurology as a strong organization. I am sure that this will move Neurology in Europe into a pole position.
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Behçet’s disease (BD), originally described in 1937 by the Turkish dermatologist Hulusi Behçet, as a distinct disease with oro-genital ulceration and uveitis known as the “triple-symptom complex”, is an idiopathic chronic relapsing multisystem vascular-inflammatory disease of unknown origin.
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Present academic and clinical positions: Professor of Neurology, Chairman of the Department of Neurology
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Present academic and clinical positions: Professeur ordinaire & médecin Chef de service de neurologie, CHUV & University of Lausanne; Directeur du département des neurosciences cliniques, CHUV Lausanne; Executive co-director (medicine), Human Brain Project, EU; Professeur titulaire, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; Honorary professor, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London