Registration for the 4th EAN Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, 16-19 June 2018, is now possible! If you are a member of EAN, you can save up to 200€ – benefit now from our reduced membership fees. Don’t forget to sign… Continue Reading 
The annual societal cost of Parkinson's disease across Europe reached €22.8 billion in 2019 according to a new study within the EAN-led Cost of Illness in Neurology in Europe (COIN-Eu) initiative.
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Registration for the 4th EAN Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, 16-19 June 2018, is now possible! If you are a member of EAN, you can save up to 200€ – benefit now from our reduced membership fees. Don’t forget to sign… Continue Reading
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The actual and ongoing agenda of the EAN – NeuroOncology Panel was presented during the EAN 2017 in Amsterdam at the Panel meeting. The following activities were discussed in detail: Guidelines, provided by the EAN-Scientific Panels, are one… Continue Reading -
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Activities of the Subspeciality Scientific Panel on Dementia and Cognitive Disorders Panel 2016-2017
SP on Dementia and Cognitive Disorders Panel met during recent EAN Congress in Amsterdam. Co-chairs Reinhold Schmidt from Austria and Jakub Hort from Czech Republic welcomed members and announced that Prof. Dafin Muresanu from Romania has been appointed as… Continue Reading -
The Panel met at the EAN Congress in Amsterdam and the Co-Chairs presented the main points from the Panel Chairs meeting. It was agreed that the Panel would approach all members to suggest a Neurologist in training to join… Continue Reading
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In 2018, the EAN will offer 35 Clinical Fellowships. -
Report from Dr Meri Grigoryan, from Yerevan, Armenia visiting the Department of Neurology, Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg, Germany under the supervision of prof. Peter Ringleb -
The new CME article October 2017: “European Stroke Organization guideline for the diagnosis and treatment of cerebral venous thrombosis – endorsed by the European Academy of Neurology” is online now! Please log-in and browse to the LEARN section on the… Continue Reading -
Dear Readers, An interesting interactive case has been published in eBrain this month. It has been written by the Neurology, Neuroscience and Stroke Unit teams from UCL Belgium. Please, find below the abstract. To see the full case, please log-in via the EAN-website, and once you are on the eBrain page, go to “virtual patient cases”: -
During the general assembly of the Resident and Research Fellow Section (RRFS) on June 26, 2017 it was concluded that an update of the RRFS membership criteria was needed. Many neurologists in training across Europe conduct a postgraduate degree such as Master or MD or PhD program after their residency and these people should still be eligible as RRFS members until 3 years since their latest degree as we believe the RRFS section is relevant for them during this period. -
ResearchScientific CornerTop ArticlesA new guideline on cerebral venous thrombosis – Guideline paper by José Ferro
A new guideline on cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) diagnosis and treatment issued by the European Stroke Organization (ESO) and endorsed by the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) was recently published in ESO (long version) and EAN (abbreviated version) official journals [1, 2]. -
ResearchScientific CornerEAN Task Force for Rare Neurological Diseases – Report from the Teaching Course
It is a pleasure to share with the European neurological community the outcome of the first teaching course for rare neurological diseases. The course took place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from 7th to 9th September 2017. -
Please find below articles from Belgian authors and co-authors that were published in the European Journal of Neurology -
EARLS is a non–profit independent alliance of national Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS - also known as Willis Ekbom Disease) European patient organizations. Launched in November 2009, EARLS had six founding members: Belgium, Finland, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. France, Norway and Austria have now also joined. -
by Anna Sauerbier
September is World Alzheimer’s Month
https://www.worldalzmonth.org/ Dementia: why don’t we have any treatments yet?
https://www.insight.mrc.ac.uk/2017/09/21/dementia-dont-treatments-yet/ Standardisation of Alzheimer’s biomarkers’ testing
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/science-update/standardisation-alzheimers-biomarkers-testing 7th European symposium on the “Societal Impact of Pain” (SIP 2017)
https://www.sip-platform.eu/files/editor/media/sip2017/Proceedings/SIP%202017%20Proceedings_v1.0.pdf… Continue Reading -
Belgium occupies a central position in Western Europe, bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg, and the North Sea. Densely populated since ancient times, its inhabitants were famously dubbed by Caesar as “the strongest of the Gauls” (Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae). In the Middle Ages this geographical area was occupied by independent fiefdoms which were later united with the northern Dutch provinces by the Dukes of Burgundy; together, they were called “The Low Countries”