We would like to congratulate the winners of this year’s Investigator Award. The chosen winners have presented their work at the 4th EAN Congress in Lisbon this June. The Investigator Award consists of a free registration to the 5th EAN… Continue Reading

            by Anna Sauerbier         EFNA’s Survey of Young Europeans with Neurological Conditions https://www.efna.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/EFNAYoungPeopleSurvey.pdf   Two years after Brexit vote, a cloud still hangs over research https://sciencebusiness.net/news/two-years-after-brexit-vote-cloud-still-hangs-over-research   Societal Impact of Pain… Continue Reading

he Congress will begin each morning and afternoon with Plenary Sessions providing overviews of the phenomenology, pathophysiology, and current diagnostic and therapeutic strategies of various movement disorders. These sessions will be followed by Parallel Tracks, permitting participants to select specific diagnostic or therapeutic areas for more concentrated study.

RRFS special session: “Meet the experts and learn about clinical work and research (clinical and laboratory) around Europe” The special session of RRFS took place on Sunday, 17.06.2018 during the 4th EAN congress in Lisbon. The special session was held… Continue Reading

I would like to state my deepest gratitude and appreciation to the European Academy of Neurology for having granted me the research-training fellowship for 12 months at Prof. Benazzouz Abdelhamid’s research group, at the Institute of Neurodegenerative disease, Bordeaux University, France.

We congratulate the winners of the EAN Tournament during the 4th EAN Congress in Lisbon.
In two sessions, twelve young scientists presented their outstanding work. The EAN Tournament Prize consists of a certificate, travel, accommodation and registration to the 5th… Continue Reading

I would like to express my gratitude to the European Academy of Neurology for awarding me with research-experience fellowship at Prof. Bastiaan Bloem’s research group at the Department of Neurology, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

This year, the hospital visit of the Resident and Research Fellow Section (RRFS) of the European Academy of Neurology during the EAN congress was on Monday 18th June 2018. Sixty-seven residents and research fellows from 16 different countries mainly around Europe but also including countries from Africa went to the Hospital de Santa Maria which is one of the university hospitals of Lisbon.

Biomed Alliance: Prof. Axel Pries, President of the Biomed Alliance, meets with MEP Christian Ehler, rapporteur to the EP for the EC Horizon Europe Framework.   In view of the ongoing political discussions around the European Commission’s proposal for funding… Continue Reading

                                                 Thanks to a memorandum of understanding between the European academy of neurology (EAN) and the African academy of neurology (AFAN), for the second year, AFAN has had an exhibition stand at the EAN congress; this year in Lisbon, Portugal.… Continue Reading

Last week marked the launch of the EBC statement “Counting down to zero: Towards a future with underfunded health research?”, which calls on the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union to increase the budget of the 9th Framework Programme of Research & Innovation, or “Horizon Europe”, to at least €120 billion.

Please find below articles from German authors and co-authors that were published in the European Journal of Neurology

The 2018 recipients, Prof. Amadou Gallo Diop (Senegal) and Prof. Riadh Gouider (Tunisia) have contributed exceptionally to develop neurology in Africa and to strengthen the relations between African neurology and EAN. The EAN Service Award comes with an official document and a personalized golden hammer.

The mission of EAN is ‘to promote excellence in neurology across Europe’. Therefore we need you, our colleagues, to become individual EAN members. Membership is not only for your own benefit, but also to accomplish our mission. As an individual member you can play an important role. By standing for election for the position as Delegate in the Assembly of Delegates you can become an influencer.

For August 2018, we have selected: Corvol JC, Artaud F, Cornier-Dequaire F, et al., for the DIGPD Study Group. Longitudinal analysis of impulse control disorders in Parkinson disease. Neurology 2018. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000005816. Impulse control disorders (ICDs) are frequent in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients, and can have relevant consequences on social life. Whereas the association between treatment with dopamine agonists (DA) and the onset of ICDs is well known, there is controversy about the relationship with dose and duration of DA therapy.