For December 2017, we have selected: Dwivedi R, Ramanujam B, Chandra PS, et al. Surgery for drug-resistant epilepsy in children. NEJM 2017;377:1639-1647. Drug-resistant epilepsy can be particularly devastating in children due to the heavy impact on psychosocial aspects and quality of life of these little patients and their family.

  Following the Board Meeting and General Assembly of the Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe  that took place on November 8, please find attached the Alliance’s joint statement with FEAM – Federation of European Academies of Medicine related to… Continue Reading

  The panel met during the EAN Congress on June 25, 2017 from 10 am to 12 am with Fabio Antonaci and Stefan Evers as Co-Chairs and 14 other members.   1) Guidelines The guideline on trigeminal neuralgia is in… Continue Reading

Outcome of the elections of the new Executive During the November 22nd, Board meeting the elections for the EBC new Executive took place. The new Executive is composed as follows: • President Prof. Monica di Luca (FENS)
• 1st Vice… Continue Reading

  On the occasion of the 2017 Amsterdam conference the EAN Autonomic Nervous Disorders panel gave an overview of their activities and set future goals. After welcoming words by the panels chair Professor Max Hilz, the panel members reviewed the… Continue Reading

  Vincenzo Silani and Albert Ludolph welcomed the members. It was emphasized that the Collaboration with the ALS/FTD Panel with the European ALS Group and the WFN Research Group on ALS/MND is excellent. The EAN Panel is preparing guidelines for… Continue Reading

  The SP Neuropathies met during recent EAN Congress in Amsterdam. Co-chairs Davide Pareyson (DP) and Peter Van den Bergh (PVdB) welcomed the 16 attending members. The following themes and activities were discussed. 1) The relationship with the Peripheral Nerve… Continue Reading

In the middle of autumn, in the picturesque and colourful atmosphere of Moldavian nature, the neurological community of the country had the chance to organize and participate in one of the most important and valuable scientific event of the Society… Continue Reading

on behalf of the Bulgarian Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics, I would like to express our gratitude towards the European Academy of Neurology for the honor to organize for a second time the Regional Teaching Course of Neurology in Sofia, Bulgaria from October 6th - 8th, 2017.

November 22, 2017 – European Parliament, Brussels Access to quality healthcare is a basic citizen’s right – yet it is still not a reality for all of us. Large health inequalities persist in the EU and many patients do not… Continue Reading

The new CME article November 2017: “Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid tau and neurofilament concentrations in rapidly progressive neurological syndromes: a neuropathology-based cohort” is online now! Please log-in and browse to the LEARN  section on the EAN Website and answer the… Continue Reading

It is not new that human disease is imposing a burden on the sufferers and a challenge for the physician. While neurologists are having the privilege being physicians and have the single patient in our focus of attention, health economists take a different view. Their thinking is focusing on the burden of disease for the society and its economic implications. They look at the costs of disease in different terms. The classical measures for the burden of disease are the costs in terms of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) which are defined as the sum of years of life lost due to the disease (YLLs) and years lived with the disease (YLDs) accounting for reduced life time with good quality of life due to the disability. Another important measure is the Socio-demographic Index (SDI) reflecting economic and educational development. There is big science behind all these calculations which I will not go into detail here.

  The EAN Specialist Panel “Neurocritical Care” held its annual meeting on the 25th June 2017 during the EAN Congress in Amsterdam. Chair: Maxwell Damian. Management Group members present: Erich Schmutzhard and Raimund Helbok. The Chair welcomed the attendees and… Continue Reading