The Transition Task Force has formed an Election Organising Committee to oversee the first Board Election of the European Academy of Neurology in Istanbul 2014. The Transition Task Force has laid down rules of procedure of which the following is… Continue Reading
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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by Alexander Bisdorff and Jan Kuks The UEMS (Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes) has as a main objective to set the basis for European standards in postgraduate medical training and to develop a mechanism of evaluation of medical specialists’ competence… Continue Reading
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by Delia Lenzi In a continent where people die for so many common and well known causes, it is easy to neglect other clinical conditions. Konzo and nodding syndrome are two particularly nasty neurological members of this class and do… Continue Reading
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At the EFNS/ENS Joint Congress of European Neurology in Istanbul, June 2014, one strong unified European neurological society, the
EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY
will be founded.
THE ASSEMBLY OF DELEGATES will be the democratic heart of the EAN: 45 national… Continue Reading -
by Eberhard Deisenhammer
Franz Gerstenbrand was born in south Moravia as a son of a general practitioner. He visited regular schools in nearby Nikolsburg. He had to participate in the German Army. After World War II he started studying medicine… Continue Reading -
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Forum: Neurological news from Austria – the land of WCN / EFNS 2013: Neurorehabilitation in Austria
By Klemens Fheodoroff
Neurorehabilitation has a long tradition in Austria. Already in 1951 the first European rehabilitation centre for spinal cord injury patients opened in Austria. In 1956 a Polio rehabilitation centre for children opened in Hermagor, Carinthia. In 1968… Continue Reading -
…but too innovative to be stopped. by Delia Lenzi Starting with the skin cells of mice in vitro, the japanese molecular biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi created primordial germ cells (PGCs), which can develop into both sperm and eggs. To prove that… Continue Reading
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The greatest impact of World Congresses is on the majority of neurology trainees and other interested parties who cannot afford to travel great distances. Europe is the most compact continent and Vienna is at its heart. This offers a wonderful… Continue Reading -
by Delia Lenzi Finally the OPEN ACCESS journals become a great reality. A change that could make an acceleration in scientific research, particularly in countries in the developing world where not everyone can afford to pay subscriptions to scientific journals:… Continue Reading
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ROAD MAP TO ISTANBUL
NEWS FROM EFNS & ENS In Barcelona, on June 8th, 2013, during the 23rd ENS Meeting, that was by the way the last ENS Meeting, the newsletter editors from ENS and EFNS, Prof. José Ferro and… Continue Reading -
by Vladimir Hachinski
This article was first published in Neurology 2013; 80(24), June 11, 2013.
The Congress theme acknowledges that science and increasingly medicine and neurology are becoming globalised. The best way to manage change is to shape it.… Continue Reading
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Forum: Neurological News from Austria – the land of WCN/EFNS 2013: The Prospective Dementia Registry-Austria (PRODEM-Austria)
by Reinhold Schmidt Longitudinal population-based studies have provided important information on the prevalence and incidence of dementia and it´s subtypes in the general population However, such studies consider incident dementia as an endpoint because their design is not suited to… Continue Reading -
by Delia Lenzi This month a tweet provided me with a very interesting article (and discussion) from Ed Yong, an award-winning British science writer, on the reliability of results in neuroscience papers. He took his inspiration from a paper published… Continue Reading
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The 2012 journal impact factors have been released on 24 June and EFNS is delighted to inform the European Journal of Neurology has an IF of 4.162, up from 3.692 in 2011. Top 10 cited articles 2012 from the European… Continue Reading
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Forum: Neurological News from Austria – the land of WCN/EFNS 2013: Clinical management and research of multiple sclerosis in Austria
by Michael Khalil
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a main area of interest for Austria’s neurologic community. One reason for this is the rather high prevalence of this disorder which in 2002 has been estimated to be around 100 per 100,000… Continue Reading