Education is one of the key elements of the activities of the European Academy of Neurology. While the congress is well known to most of our members and European Neurologists the activities outside the congress are much less known. EAN has a special committee working on education[1] with Prof. Hannah Cock as the chair and the teaching course subcommittee under the leadership of Prof. Claudia Sommer. They are charged to develop an educational program including education for neurologists in training and advanced courses with the emphasis on training for the general neurologist. While the field of Neurology is getting increasingly broader it is of paramount importance to set a common ground for all neurologists which our education committee has carefully developed. For the congress educational programme, a five-year curriculum of the educational content covering all relevant topics has been developed over the past 3 years and parts of this plan are also applied to the educational activities outside the congress.

Prof. Wolfgang Oertel (WO): Dear Prof. Di Luca I congratulate you with your new position and kindly ask you to illustrate your plans for EBC’s strategy and work in the years to come. Prof. Monica Di Luca (MDL): Being elected as President of EBC is a great honour for me as well as an important challenge. This is an important era for EBC. Thanks to the excellent work of the past President David Nutt, the last 4 years witnessed the consolidation of our Council in the European scenario as the ideal platform where all voices related to brain research could find an interlocutor and could merge. We are now in the privileged position to start new projects and bring EBC to a next step.

  Founded/Established in and Short synopsis of aims and objectives The European ME Alliance (EMEA) was founded in 2008 and is committed to increase understanding of Myalgic
Encephalomyelitis (ME or ME/CFS) and improve quality of life experienced by people with… Continue Reading

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Two years ago, the European Academy of Neurology – Residents and Research Fellows Section (EAN-RRFS) started a new initiative called “junior national representatives network” to establish a team of junior national representatives within the EAN-RRFS. The main aim is to enable closer links between the European countries in order to facilitate the speed of information flow, exchange experiences, and learn from each other.

          by Anna Sauerbier       1) EFNA launch ‘Survey of Young Europeans with Neurological Conditions’ http://www.braincouncil.eu/activities/news/efna-launch-survey-of-young-europeans-with-neurological-conditions/   2) Europe’s pharma companies join with non-profit group in push to measure outcomes of medical treatments https://sciencebusiness.net/healthy-measures/news/europes-pharma-companies-join-non-profit-group-push-measure-outcomes-medical… Continue Reading

History Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is an autosomal dominant (AD) spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) initially described in descendants of immigrants from the Portuguese islands of the Azores. It was in 1972 that Kenneth K. Nakano and colleagues described the Machado family, with an AD, late onset, cerebellar ataxia with peripheral neuropathy. All family members were descendants from Guilherme Machado, who had migrated from São Miguel (Azores) to Massachusetts in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries.

For April 2018, we have selected: Whelan CD, Altmann A, Botia JA, et al., for the ENIGMA-Epilepsy Working Group. Structural brain abnormalities in the common epilepsies assessed in a worldwide ENIGMA study. Brain 2018;141:391-408. Epilepsy affects 0.6-1.5% of the population worldwide with one-third of patients being resistant to antiepileptic treatment. Nowadays epilepsy is considered a network disorder in which several structural changes are involved.

Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a country in Central Europe. The total area of the Slovak territory is 49 036 km2 and is mostly mountainous. The population is over 5 million. The capital and largest city is Bratislava. However, the Slovak Republic is a young state (established on January 1st, 1993, by the split of Czechoslovakia), indeed it is an old country with rich historical heritage.

by Prof. Radu Tanasescu   Paper: Maggi et al. ‘Central Vein Sign Differentiates Multiple Sclerosis from Central Nervous System Inflammatory Vasculopathies’. Annals of Neurology. 2018;83:283–294. Outline: This paper shows for the first time that central vein assessment in white matter… Continue Reading

THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY PRESENTS ‘CHALLENGING THE GLOBAL BURDEN OF BRAIN DISEASE’, A COLLABORATION WITH ITN PRODUCTIONS In a unique communications partnership, European Academy of Neurology (EAN) and ITN Productions are producing a news and current affairs-style programme highlighting… Continue Reading

Epilepsy Center, Neurocenter, Kuopio University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland