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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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Science from a Tweet: Found a genetic link between van Gogh and his paintings; but let’s not lose the magic

August 1, 2015

by Delia Lenzi Power and collaborators have recently published in the Journal Nature Neuroscience a paper on the genetic link between creativity and psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder and schizofrenia. They found that polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and… Continue Reading
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Report on the 2nd Meeting of the EAN Assembly of Delegates by Didier Leys

July 1, 2015

After its very first meeting in Istanbul in 2014, the Assembly of Delegates met for the second time in Berlin during the 1st Congress of the EAN. This assembly, which is the democratic body of the Academy, consists of 90 delegates, 45 representing national societies of neurology, and 45 representing full individual members.
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Science from a Tweet: Regeneration of tissue: humans not so (genetically) far from lizards?

July 1, 2015

by Delia Lenzi Impressive results emerge from a study recently published in Science from a group of scientists who were able to identify a small-molecule inhibitor of 15-PGDH (SW033291) that increases prostaglandin PGE2 levels in bone marrow and other tissues.… Continue Reading
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Neurological News from Germany IX – The integration into European Neurology

June 1, 2015

Over the last months, Neuropenews has featured 8 chapters describing the beginning of neurology in Germany (chapter 1), a golden age at the end of the 19th century, the first 30 years of the 20th century with true scientific breakthroughs (chapter 2), the dark age before and during World War II (chapter 3), the slow and painful (chapter 4) and since the 1970ies accelerating recovery (chapter 5-8) of clinical neuroscience and neurology in Germany [1].
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Science from a Tweet: Close to a single explanation

June 1, 2015

by Delia Lenzi A study in mice published in Nature Neuroscience this year provides important insights on schizophrenia pathogenesis by linking the three previous and, until now, apparently unrelated hypotheses: the “spine pruning theory”, the “hyperactive neurons theory” and the… Continue Reading
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Neurological News from Germany VIII – Neuroscience Funding in Germany

May 1, 2015

After the Second World War, the German education system was organised in a decentralised fashion in order to facilitate a pluralistic control of research and education. Therefore, educational and funding systems exist in parallel, on the level of the regional political structure (state) where a specific university is localised, and on the level of funding by the central government and its Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
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EAN Guideline: Concomitant use of Cholinesterase Inhibitors and Memantine in Alzheimer’s Disease

May 1, 2015

In the June issue of the European Journal of Neurology, members of the Subspecialty Scientific Panel Dementia and Cognitive Disorders panel of the European Academy of Neurology publish a Guideline on concomitant use of cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEI) and memantine in moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
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Science from a Tweet: chapter I, the Hardware

May 1, 2015

by Delia Lenzi Usually when we ought to understand how things work, first we try to get to know the structure exactly. But in neurology and neuroscience we often face the problem of trying to understand the software without knowing… Continue Reading
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“Stop vivisection” – Opposition to the European Citizen’s Initiative to ban animal research – EAN writes to the members of the European Parliament

April 24, 2015

Together with many other scientific societies EAN opposes the “Stop vivisection” – Opposition to the European Citizen’s Initiative to ban animal research. This initiative was submitted in March 2015 and requests to abrogate the directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament… Continue Reading
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New EFNA Member of the European Parliament Interest Group on Brain, Mind and Pain

April 1, 2015

FNA is the umbrella organisation for more than 20 pan-European disease-specific neurology patient organisations. It will work with Pain Alliance Europe to push neurological and chronic pain conditions higher up the European agenda.
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Neurological News from Germany VII – The Growing Importance of Neurology and Brain Health

April 1, 2015

As outlined in previous chapter VI of this series, the last three decades have seen a steadily growing number of neurologists (not only) in Germany. This continuing rise is certainly supported by the expanding diagnostic and therapeutic options for neurological diseases, but this alone wouldn’t suffice as an explanation.
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EAYNT – Young Neurologists’ Perception of Future Health Care and Neurology

April 1, 2015

by Johann Sellner, Antonella Macerollo There are limited data available on the current visions of neurologists for health care and neurology. We aimed to garner ideas about current challenges and future development of health care among residents and junior neurologists… Continue Reading
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Science from a Tweet: Gene editing – a step too far?

April 1, 2015

by Delia Lenzi Using an increasingly popular gene-editing toolkit called CRISPR, Gantz and Bier were able to overcome the classic rules of Mendelian genetics. This is an impressive example of gene drive: biasing inheritance to spread a gene rapidly through… Continue Reading
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Valproate in the treatment of epilepsy in women and girls – pre-publication summary of Recommendations from a joint Task Force of ILAE-Commission on European Affairs* and European Academy of Neurology**

March 19, 2015

by Torbjörn Tomson on behalf of the Joint Task Force* The Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures-Human (CMDh) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recently strengthened warnings on the use of valproate medicines in women and girls… Continue Reading
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Revolution and evolution in neurology

March 1, 2015

Belief in progress is dauntless. Media keeps informing about inventions which, very soon for certain, will lead to victory over cancer or Alzheimer's disease. The literary set, some conservative politicians or church officials sometimes doubt the progress, their scepticism is often motivated ideologically and hardly resonates among doctors or scientists.

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