BioMed Alliance creates Permanent Committee on Continuing Medical Education

Dear colleagues and friends, I am writing to convey my very best wishes and sincere thanks to all, as we have wrapped up an eventful year and have shifted our momentum to the challenges that lie ahead: 2019. The past 12 months have been marked by noteworthy achievement and change. As we all reflect on the past year, I think that we have many reasons to look forward with enthusiasm toward what has yet to come.

EBRA, European Brain Research Area

The Abstract Submission Deadline is approaching fast: 23 January 2019, 23:59 CET! Use the upcoming week to submit your abstracts to the 5th EAN Congress in Oslo, Norway! Login with your username and password on www.ean.org/oslo2019 and submit your abstract… Continue Reading

The Guidelines of the Spanish Neurological Society have been included in our Guideline Reference Centre. Take a look here ! You can filter by language and issuing body. We are currently working on including all national neurological guidelines from our member societies! We will keep you updated.

Members of the Scientific Panel on Sleep-Wake disorders (LaTorre et al.) have published an article on "T cells in patients with narcolepsy target self-antigens of hypocretin neurons" in Nature Neurology. You can find the article here.

The January issue of the European Journal of Neurology is online!

TO: WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Epilepsy is the most common and potentially devastating chronic neurological disease that affects people across the lifespan. In Europe, epilepsy affects 6 million people (prevalence 8/1000) and the lifetime cumulative prevalence of epilepsy… Continue Reading

  This year, the EANM Focus Meeting is entitled “Molecular Imaging of Dementia – The Future is Here”. It will take place in the end of January 2019 in Cannes, France.   The meeting will be devoted to the latest… Continue Reading

Decision-making processes of tracheostomy-assisted ventilation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Dedicated to 120 clinical neurologists in training who did not yet complete their residency/ clinical speciality training who wish to boost their knowledge and to get the chance to enable personal contacts among participants and faculty members. Contributions to the optimal organisation of neurological care, neurological services and postgraduate education throughout Europe will be presented.

The Third High-Level Meeting of the United Nations on Non-Communicable Diseases – Time to deliver leaving no one behind and Report on the 68th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe

Health research in Europe needs and inclusive and long term policy to achieve better health and wellbeing of citizens and to create societal and economic value for Europe.

The award was introduced by Dystonia Europe in 2003 and is presented every two years to stimulate research on dystonia, especially by young scientists in Europe.