Findings suggest narcolepsy type 1 to be a T-cell mediated autoimmune disease targeting hypocretin-producing neurons.

Nakalanga syndrome: Clinical characteristics, potential causes, and its relationship with recently described Nodding syndrome

President Prof Fazekas continues to recover.

ERN-RND provides educational webinars on rare neurological and neuromuscular diseases - in collaboration with the European Reference Network for Rare Neuromuscular Diseases (EURO-NMD) and the European Academy of Neurology (EAN).

New treatment options for pediatric convulsive status epilepticus after failure of first-line benzodiazepines

On October 12-15, the Italian society of neurology (SIN, Società Italiana di Neurologia) celebrated its 50th congress in Bologna. Bologna has the oldest Italian University, founded in 1088, and is the town of many outstanding Italian neuroscientists. Moreover, Bologna has been the nest of some of the major European schools in the field of epilepsy and sleep medicine.

During the last meeting of the Board, it has been decided that the current Rare neurological diseases task force, founded in 2016, will be transformed into the first EAN Coordinating Panel.

Summer 2019 Newsletter from European Partnership on Competencies for High Value COst COnscious CARE Project

In order to give our members a deeper insight into the work of EAN’s Scientific Panels, EANpages will feature a different Scientific Panel each month along with a video interview with its co-chairs, explaining the Scientific Panel’s focus, it’s aims and achievements. For November, you can watch a video interview with Marie Vidailhet, Chair of the EAN Scientific Committee where she introduces the Scientific Panels and their important role.

In this article, we present an overview of this year’s European Congress of Neurorehabilitation, organized in the beautiful city of Budapest between 9-12 October 2019, hosted by one of our closest partners - the European Federation of Neurorehabilitation Societies (EFNR). The EFNR is an international organization dedicated to research, education, intellectual and scientific exchange, advocacy, and philanthropic activities in the field of neurorehabilitation medicine and related professional areas of expertise.

Exposed to a distinctive landscape of mountains and sea and hidden by the “Mediterranean Maquis”, the EAN Autumn School took place in Loutraki, Greece from 17 to 20 October.  

Between the 25th and 28th of September 2019, the German Neurological Society (deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie – DGN) held its annual congress at the International Congresscenter in Stuttgart, Germany. As one of the largest neurological gatherings in Europe it was attended by approximately 5,500 health professionals associated with Neurology.

The European Academy of Neurology is pleased to welcome Nepal as its new Corresponding Institutional Member! From now on, the Nepal Academy of Neurology (NAN), led by President, Prof. Dr. Krishna Kumar Oli, is going to be invited as an observer to the EAN Assembly of Delegates and to an informal meeting with other Corresponding Institutional Members, taking place during the EAN congresses.

ESNR, the European Society of Neuroradiology, is with 5,000 members Europe’s leading radiological subspecialty society. Founded in 1969 we are celebrating our 50th birthday this year. A wide range of diagnostic and interventional neuroradiological topics including brain and spine imaging, head and neck imaging and pediatric neuroradiology are housed under the ESNR umbrella.

The annual WHO meeting of the mental health forum was held on the 14-15 October 2019.  This is the first time that Neurology was invited to attend and present in two separate sessions.  I represented the EAN and presented the case for global Neurosciences in the two sessions.