Report from Sebastian Schreglmann from Switzerland visiting the Sobell Deparment, National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (NINN), Queen Square, London under the supervision of Professor Kailash Bhatia As a recipient of the EAN Department to Department Programme the following lines… Continue Reading

Dear Readers, Let us take this opportunity and invite you to read articles which have been carefully chosen by our Scientific Panels Autonomic nervous system disorders , Higher cortical functions, Infectious diseases, Movement disorders, Neuroepidemiology & Palliative care:   Squair… Continue Reading

12th Annual Update Conference on Clinical Neurology and Neurophysiology
Tel Aviv, Israel
February 15-17, 2016 The conference will be held this year in Tel Aviv on February 15-17, 2016. The conference will feature two parallel streams and workshops. Participants are… Continue Reading

The European Journal of Neurology is free of charge for EAN members! Log-in on www.eaneurology.org. If you encounter difficulties accessing the Journal, please contact headoffice@eaneurology.org

  Background The Alliance for MRI, a coalition of European Parliamentarians, patient groups, leading European scientists and the medical community, was officially launched in March 2007 in response to the pending implementation of the EU Physical Agents 2004/40/EC (on electromagnetic… Continue Reading

by Anna Sauerbier 1. The EU is to set up a new innovation body, but what will it do? 2. New role for motor neurons discovered at Karolinska 3. Increasing the public health potential of basic research and the scientist… Continue Reading

by Lucia Muntean During a very busy and successful program at the Annual Congress of the German Sleep Society, the Young European Sleep Neurologist Association (YESNA) organized a workshop, dedicated to young colleagues and to those who were keen of… Continue Reading

This year the EAN Spring School will take place from May 12th to May 15th, 2016 at the Hotel Bezděz in Staré Splavy, Czech Republic.

The EAN and the European Journal of Neurology together play important, different but complementary and synergistic roles in the pursuit of advancing the clinical neurosciences and their translation to practical patient and carer benefit.

The new CME article January 2016: “Intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke in the elderly: data from the Baden-Wuerttemberg stroke registry” is online now! Please browse to the e-learning section on the EAN Website (in the registered user area) and… Continue Reading

The EAN congress quiz 2016 is online now until March 07, 2016:

The year 2016 is beginning in many places with wonderful progress for neurology. But we should not forget that many of our colleges are working under the hardest imaginable conditions. The war in the middle east taking currently place in Syria, Iraq and neighboring regions is the most brutal and unhuman war which this region has ever suffered. I am writing about Syria but the situation is similar in the neighboring countries. The United Nations estimated at the beginning of 2015 that 220,000 people had been killed in Syria, but other monitoring groups put the death toll much higher. The people living in this region are constantly exposed to violence from all sides, the educational system suffers vita minima and regular jobs are a fiction for most people. Besides all direct military actions people suffer from unexpected explosions or killings for no reasons when walking on the road. Children and women are subject to violence through many and mostly unthinkable ways. Particularly young men fear of getting arrested at military barriers for recruitment and getting killed after a few days in front lines. There is a strong movement to Turkey or Lebanon and meanwhile to Europe. While Syria had 22 Million inhabitants in 2011 before the war currently almost 10 Mio of them are refugees abroad or have moved from the rural areas to the safer cities. The economic situation is also catastrophic as the inflation is grossly affecting all parts of the Society. While 1 US $ equaled 60 Syrian pounds (SP) in the past it equals now 250SP. Black market economy is increasing the suffering in particular of the poorer population. Physicians working in government services earned 400-600$ in the past but are now just between 50-75$ due to inflation and therefore also their families suffer.

Philip Larkin is incoming President of EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care). David Vodušek (DV): The mission statement of EAPC states: “…EAPC strives to develop and promote palliative care in Europe through information, education and research using multi-professional collaboration, while engaging with stakeholders at all levels.” How would you translate this statement towards possible cooperation with EAN? Philip Larkin (PL): It may be helpful to explain initially how EAPC works. EAPC is a membership organisation and currently has 55 member associations across 31 countries and people are engaged in palliative care from a range of perspectives; specialist clinical practice, education, policy and of course research.

As in the previous year, Neuropenews asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, speakers etc. which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Copenhagen 2016. Please find their answers below!

Mads Ravnborg is President of the Danish Neurological Society - hosting the 2nd Congress of the European Academy of Neurology in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is Co-chair of the EAN Programme Committee 2016. The interview was conducted by Philip Scheltens, who is also a member of the EAN Programme Committee. Philip Scheltens (PS): As President of the Danish Neurological Society (DNS), can you give us a brief history of the society, its activities and plans for the future? Mads Ravnborg (MR): The Neurological Society was founded in 1900 in Copenhagen, an event that heralded the formation of a neurologic specialty in Danish health care.