In this paper recently published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Oxley et al., report five cases of large-vessel stroke in patients younger than 50 years of age affected by SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is in some ways distinct from other parts of the nervous system: ANS function cannot be easily measured, only some ANS parts are accessible to imaging. Moreover, working in the field of ANS requires a multidisciplinary approach to clinical problems and often involves other specialities such as cardiology, gastroenterology, dermatology, and urology.

The Scientific Panel on Movement Disorders Management Group invites you to join us for the excellent Movement Disorders program at the EAN Virtual Congress.  The program has been prepared in collaboration between the EAN and the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder… Continue Reading

I am Nina Khizanishvili, a young neurologist from Tbilisi, Georgia. I currently work in Germany but I still get a lot of information about the situation in the First University Clinic of Tbilisi State Medical University in my home country.

The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic in my French region and also in Grenoble has radically changed how teaching classes have been organised in our Grenoble Alpes University Medical School. To better explain these changes, I need to illustrate how… Continue Reading

Read reports from two fellows who completed their fellowships in FRance in 2019 and 2020.

For 2020, we have selected: Shahnawaz M, Mukherjee A, Pritzkow S et al. Discriminating α-synuclein strains in Parkinson’s disease and multiple system atrophy.

As any place in Europe and beyond, the French health system is still under pressure and Covid-19 has already and will profoundly change healthcare.

As soon as the dramatic developments in our European fellow countries Italy, France, and Spain came to our attention, an emergency plan was deployed across the country. Besides coordinating logistics of allocating protection gear and respirators, all hospitals with the respective competence and resources in intensive care medicine have systematically ramped up their capacities.

Giovanni Di Liberto, MD-PhD Chair, RRFS – Residents and Research Fellows Section of the EAN Dr. Thomas Jenkins, Chair of the EAN e-Communication Committee interviews: Dear Dr. Di Liberto, You recently took over the leadership of the RRFS EAN section.… Continue Reading

New gene therapy to treat spinal muscular atrophy On March 27, European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended granting a conditional marketing authorisation in the European Union for the gene therapy Zolgensma (onasemnogene abeparvovec) to treat babies and young children with spinal… Continue Reading

Discussions during last year’s Spring Meeting and General Assembly showed that BioMed Alliance Members are affected by Plan S. Due to COVID-19, adaptation to the open access initiative within the foreseen timeline has become even more challenging for medical societies.… Continue Reading