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We are happy to welcome you at the Oslo City Hall, where the annual Nobel Peace Price ceremony is taking place. Seize the opportunity to visit an impressive place while meeting the speakers and colleagues from all over the world!

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.

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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

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!

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:

The Early Registration Deadline for the 5th EAN Congress in Oslo this year is on 10 April 2019!

The EAN congress quiz is online now.  Answer 9 questions about the Oslo congress programme, EAN and Norway until April 10 and get a chance to win a free congress registration! Login to MyEAN with your user information and click… Continue Reading

Abstract submission for the 5th EAN Congress in Oslo, Norway, is closed. We thank the submitters and authors for their contributions and are happy to report a record number of abstracts received!  All abstracts are now under review and will… Continue Reading

The Department of Neurology at the University Hospital of Northern Norway (UNN) is the only neurological department in the two northernmost counties in Norway and serves as secondary and  tertiary referral hospital for the Northern Norway region. With its 112 975 km2, the Northern Norway region is approximately the size of a medium-sized European country and larger than the combined areas of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. The hospital is located in the city of Tromsø, situated 375 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. Tromsø is the largest urbane municipality in Northern Norway and the third largest north of the Arctic Circle anywhere in the world.

Join the traditional concert from Neurologists to Neurologists on Sunday, June 30, 2019 at 20.30 h Norges Varemesse, Room Berlin.

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!

The Abstract Submission Deadline is approaching fast: 23 January 2019, 23:59 CET! Use the upcoming week to submit your abstracts to the 5th EAN Congress in Oslo, Norway! Login with your username and password on www.ean.org/oslo2019 and submit your abstract… Continue Reading

The Norwegian Brain Council, established in 2007, was one of the first of its kind in Europe. The initiative for it came from key members of the Norwegian Neurological Association, and today the council is seen as a key contributor to the Norwegian health system.