Martin Seychell is leaving his current DG.

Alzheimer Europe (AE) has published the 33rd edition of its “Dementia in Europe” policy magazine in an electronic format, for the first time. This decision was taken earlier in 2020, in light of some of the uncertainties around COVID-19 and its impact on service-providers.

The European Brain Council (EBC) has launched a new video series, “Science and Society”, to raise awareness of brain disorders and for those living with these conditions.

New randomised control trial evidence for treatment of status epilepticus

Members of the EAN Scientific Panel on Infectious Diseases have recently published a systematic review of neurological manifestations of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection in the European Journal of Neurology.

A new guideline on the palliative care for people with severe multiple sclerosis has been produced by EAN, in collaboration with ...

EAN aims to build a reading list of high-quality and up-to-date reviews on core neurology curriculum areas for registrars across Europe. The focus is clinical and practical, to guide neurology trainees learning their trade in optimal standards of diagnosis, investigation and management in daily clinical practice.

Neurology Prof. Gert-Jan Lammers became a chair of Sleep disorders at the Leiden University Medical Centre

EAN Scientific Panel Neuro-oncology invites you to take part in their survey:

The first case of COVID-19 infection was recorded in Brazil on Feb 25, 2020. On June 20th, official statistics reported 1 million confirmed cases, and more than 50,000 deaths. Brazil has the second highest number of cases of COVID-19 in the world, facing more than 1,000 deaths per day. However, due to underreporting among many regions in the country, the actual numbers are unknown. Besides the underestimation of the real deaths and cases, the Government recently changed the way in which the cases were reported: only new cases were reported, and not the total number of infected people or deaths. This has produced great criticism from the scientific community and the media, increasing the levels of tension under which the country has been living.

In this paper, just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors report neuropathological findings from autopsies of 18 consecutive patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection who died in a single teaching hospital between April 14 and April 29, 2020.

This retrospective multicentre study aimed to assess the number of patients with acute ischaemic cerebrovascular events seeking inpatient medical emergency care since the implementation of social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this paper recently published in Neurology, the authors aimed to determine whether neurological manifestations are common in hospitalised COVID-19 patients and to describe their main characteristics.

In this study, recently published in Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, the authors conducted a survey on the risk of COVID-19 in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD).