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  by Anna Sauerbier
      Public investment in research and innovation more important than ever, new study confirms http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=newsalert&year=2017&na=na-160317 —————————————————– Cognitive enhancing drugs can improve chess play https://www.ecnp.eu/Informationandnews/Press/170306_Cognitive_enhancing_drugs_chess.aspx?ec_as=651409B93356489887F4353022160A40 —————————————————– Topics are under consideration for inclusion in future Innovative… Continue Reading

Unmet Needs In Movement Disorders: A multidisciplinary approach First Egyptian Educational Movement disorders course, Ain Shams University, in Collaboration with the Movement Disorders Society. 23-25 February, 2017. Cairo, Egypt Movement disorders is an evolving rapidly growing specialty in Egypt and… Continue Reading

Founded/Established in and Short synopsis of aims and objectives

AF Related Stroke Policy Workshop – European Parliament The video about our AF-related Stroke policy workshop held at the European Parliament in Brussels on 25 January 2017 can be found here.     EBC – European Brain Council was last… Continue Reading

A discussion paper about the Value of Treatment for Brain Disorders was released on 28 February 2017. The Value of Treatment for Brain Disorders (VoT) is a 2-year research project undertaken by EBC with the overall goal of assessing the treatment gaps and the cost of non-(or inadequate) treatments, and promoting a holistic healthcare approach (versus fragmentation and results in silo)

EAN takes part in the Brain Awareness Week initiative of the EBC, and we want to draw your attention to this initiative.

     by Anna Sauerbier     Promoting gender equality in mental health and clinical research
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P8-TA-2017-0028+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN Developing tools for early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s
http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?id=/research/headlines/news/article_17_01_31_en.html?infocentre&item=Infocentre&artid=42936 Mental Health & Active Ageing: Event, video and press release
http://www.mhe-sme.org/news-events/news/news-details/article/mental-health-active-ageing-event-video-and-press-release/    … Continue Reading

in collaboration with the Institute of Neuroscience and Institute for Ageing, Newcastle University, UK; Centre for Ageing and Health (AgeCAP), Sweden; Alzheimer’s Research, UK and the African Academy of Neurology (AFAN)   6th – 9th December 2016 Nairobi, Kenya   The landmark… Continue Reading

On January 19, the EBC presented at the European Parliament in Strasbourg the final outcomes of the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) study: Technological Innovation strategies in substance use disorders. 

    By Anna Sauerbier     The balance between science and public opinion is ‘difficult’ http://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/interview/mcguinness-the-balance-between-science-and-public-opinion-is-difficult/ ———————————————————————————————————— The inequalities between men and women are most visible when it comes to mental health https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/articles/opinion/gender-inequality-most-evident-mental-health ———————————————————————————————————— Multiple sclerosis drug ‘a landmark’… Continue Reading