Highlights from the European Parliament meeting ‘Ensuring equitable access to high-quality treatment in brain, mind and pain disorders – Case-Studies from across Europe’ on 22 November, 2017. A meeting of the Members of the European Parliament… Continue Reading

    by Anna Sauerbier     World’s Brain Initiatives Move Forward Together http://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/news/worlds-brain-initiatives-move-forward-together/ New trial shows Huntington’s drug could slow progress of disease http://eurohuntington.org/2017/12/11/2328/ New scientific yardstick to help early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/new-scientific-yardstick-help-early-diagnosis-alzheimers-disease Neurologists urge doctors to… Continue Reading

I completed Dr. DB Gupta/EAN research experience fellowship 2016 in the Epilepsy center (Epilepsihospitalet) Filadelfia, Dianalund, Denmark under Professor Sandor Beniczky. It was my first ever visit to abroad which gave me the learning experience of all the processes apart from successful completion of the project.

The chief of the neurology department at Unna Evangelical Hospital, Prof. Zaza Katsarava ( Professor of Neurology at the University of Essen) kindly accepted my attendance  at his department. The Evangelical Hospital in Unna is a multiprofile hospital, with a 75 bed inpatient department of Neurology.

It has been a great honour for me to be awarded with the EAN Research fellowship. The EAN Research Experience Fellowship allowed me to spend more than one year at the Oxford University, in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics (DPAG). It has been a life changing experience for me.

As in the previous years, EANpages asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, and invited speakers  which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Lisbon 2018. Please find their answers below!

by Prof. Victor Oliveira, University of Lisboa, Portugal – Member of the Local Organising Committee for the 4th EAN Congress in Lisbon, Portugal Egas Moniz (1874-1955) was a Portuguese neurologist whose name is associated to the invention of angiography and… Continue Reading

For January 2018, we have selected: Mendell JR, Al-Zaidy S, Shell R, et al. Single-dose gene-replacement therapy for spinal muscular atrophy. NEJM 2017;377:1713-1722. Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by loss or dysfunction of the gene encoding survival motor neuron 1 protein (SMN1). Disease severity is also influenced by a second gene, SMN2, which can produce smaller amounts of this protein.

The EAN Spring School will take place from May 10th to May 13th, 2018 at the Hotel Bezděz in Staré Splavy, Czech Republic.

The 9th Regional Teaching Course (RTC) in Sub-Saharan Africa took place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on November 8 – 11, 2017. The meeting was hosted by Prof. Jean Kabore, Head of the Neurological Department of the Yalgado Ouedrago Hospital of Ouagadougou together with Prof. Athanase Milogo, Head of the Neurology Department of the Sanou Sourou hospital in Bo Bo Dialasso and Prof. Christian Napon, head of the Neurology Department of the District Hospital of Bogodogo, Ouagadougou. The RTC took place at the National Hospital “Blaise Compaore”.

The new CME article January 2018: “Long-term effects of cognitive rehabilitation on brain, functional outcome and cognition in Parkinson’s disease” is online now! Please log-in and browse to the LEARN section on the EAN Website and answer the questions! All… Continue Reading

David B. Vodušek (DBV): When looking back at your long and varied career, can you tell us what was crucial for you to choose neurology as your specialty, and headache as your primary research field of interest?  Jes Olesen (JO): Already as a medical student, I was interested in neurology. I thought at that time – and I still think so today – that the brain is by far the most interesting organ in a human being.

Dear EAN members, dear readers, I would like to address you a few lines at the end of this year. For EANpages, the 2017 has marked the second year since the launch of the new format of the EAN news… Continue Reading