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Robots could be instrumental in future in caring for dementia patients. A Spanish research team reported on initial successes in robotherapy for dementia patients at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona. According to WHO forecasts, the number… Continue Reading

With Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia on the rise worldwide, this subject has high priority in medical research. Groups of European researchers gave more than 50 presentations on dementia alone at the Congress of the European Neurological Society… Continue Reading

Experts at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona emphasised that sleep-wake disorders may be the first manifestation of serious neurological disorders. Nonetheless, neurological research has only recently begun to give sleep the attention it deserves. Multidisciplinary cooperation… Continue Reading

Italian scientists reporting at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona have sparked hopes in a future pharmacological therapy for treating pathological gambling. The researchers showed that the substance amantadine can substantially reduce important symptoms of this disorder.… Continue Reading

Video games have not only taken living rooms by storm but are also increasingly recognised as valuable support in the field of medicine. The same holds true for the treatment of patients who have lost certain sequences of movement and… Continue Reading

Staré Splavy, Hotel Bezděz, Czech Republic
May, 9-12, 2013 Our 14th course took place during the month of May, which was labelled by the European Union as European Month of the Brain to raise awareness of the importance of brain-related… Continue Reading

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

by Liliia Zviagina First of all I would like to thank the EFNS Head Office, Lisa Müller and Julia Mayer, the EFNS TC committee, especially Professor Detlef Kömpf, and all our invited speakers for their mutual support in organising the… Continue Reading

All e-learning activities are free-of-charge for EFNS members 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 articles are… Continue Reading

I had the unique chance of being one of the young neurologists chosen by the EFNS Education Committee to perform a 6-month educational program in the National Reference Centre for Neuromuscular Disease (Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Institut de Myologie, Paris, France) under the supervision of Professor Jean-Marc Léger.

On February 20, 2013 EFNS Admin, including EFNS Head Office and the EFNS Branch Offices Prague and Florence passed the recertification audit and received the certificate confirming the application and further development of an effective Quality Management System complying with the requirements of standard ISO 9001:2008.

It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the EFNS Fellowship 2013 (in alphabetical order) Scientific Fellowship: Francesca Antonelli from Italy was selected for her project DFDDNP-PET for in-vivo diagnosis of tauopathy in atypical and unclassified parkinsonism, which… Continue Reading

This year the EFNS project of individual visits to departments of neurological excellence is already running the 12th annual course. Having started in 2001 with the first 21 grantees, it gradually developed up to 82 grants per year in 2010.… Continue Reading

During my visit in Lisbon, Portugal, I worked both in the outpatient clinic and persued my own research project.
While in the outpatient clinic, movement disorders domains were discussed, such as Parkinson’s disease, atypical Parkinsonism, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), Neurogenetics… Continue Reading

I spent 6 weeks in the Neurocenter of the Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. I had the opportunity to work in the out-patient department (1 week), in the hospital (3 weeks), in the EMG department (1 week), and in the intensive and… Continue Reading