Ebrain e-learning programme is a gold standard in interactive online learning for professionals in neurosciences. This exciting web-based learning resource is designed to support training and continuous professional development for clinical neuroscience trainees, consultants and non-specialists. Members of the EAN… Continue Reading

For August 2015, we have selected: Ngandu T, Lehtisalo J, Solomon A, et al. A 2-year multidomain intervention of diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular risk monitoring versus control to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk elderly people (FINGER): a randomized controlled trial. The Lancet Neurology 2015;385:2255-2263. The progressive aging of the world population and the related increased number of people with neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer disease (AD) and other dementias, urge to find new and effective prevention strategies.

Following invitation by Alzheimer Europe, Professor Günther Deuschl, EAN President, and the EAN Board accepted to sign the Alzheimer Europe Glasgow Declaration. The “Glasgow Declaration” calls for the creation of a European Dementia Strategy and national strategies in every country… Continue Reading

by Delia Lenzi Power and collaborators have recently published in the Journal Nature Neuroscience a paper on the genetic link between creativity and psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder and schizofrenia. They found that polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and… Continue Reading

by Jan Kuks On behalf of the Quality Assurance sub-Committee, I’m delighted to announce that, based on an objective analysis of participant evaluations, the following individuals will all be receiving certificates of excellence for their respective educational lectures during the… Continue Reading

NEW application deadline: 31 August 2015   In 2016, the EAN will offer up to 8 research experience or training fellowships of 6 – 12 months duration. Research training fellowship:
Expected to be of 12 months duration, to lead either… Continue Reading

Report from Nedia Ben Achour from Tunisia visiting the Department of Neuromuscular Diseases and ALS in Marseille, France under the supervision of Professor Shahram Attarian I carried out my training in the “Department of Neuromuscular Diseases and ALS” (La Timone,… Continue Reading

It was the second time our Department in Lviv supervised a Regional Teaching Course, funded by the EAN. The RTC took place from 28-30 May, 2015. First, our organising committee would like to express their appreciation for the great help… Continue Reading

We congratulate the winner of the P.K. Thomas Award for the best paper on peripheral nerve disorders at the 1st EAN Congress in Berlin, June 20-23, 2015 Luise Appeltshauser, Würzburg, Germany
Auto-antibodies against contactin-1 in patients with inflammatory neuropathy The… Continue Reading

We congratulate the winners of the Investigator Awards for their presentation during the 1st EAN Congress in Berlin 2015!
The Prize consists of an Award certificate & €300,-. Helena Ariño, Barcelona, Spain
Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes associated with antibodies against glutamic… Continue Reading

In this issue of the Neuropenews we would like to again invite you to read interesting articles which were kindly chosen by our Subspecialty Scientific Panel on Higher Cortical Functions: May-Britt Moser, David C. Rowland, Edvard I. Moser: “Place cells,… Continue Reading

The EAN adopted the GRADE system for the production of guidelines. Our Guideline production group would like to provide you with a short introduction as well as information on the courses. The EAN considers the production of neurological guidelines a… Continue Reading

The European Academy of Neurology (EAN) held its 1st Congress in Berlin, Germany, from 20 to 23 June. The EAN was set up last year following a merger between the European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) and the European Neurological Society (ENS).

On Sunday, June 21, 2015, a Public Awareness Day was organised around the theme Diagnosing, Treating and Managing Headache and Sleep Disorders at the Neurology Lecture Hall in the Alte Nervenklinik at the Charité Campus. The meeting was a joint initiative by EAN and EFNA, the European Umbrella Patient group for neurological illness. In spite of the good weather on this Sunday afternoon, some 40 people attended the meeting.

The members of the Scientific Committee (SC) at present are: Antonio Federico (Chair) Claudio Bassetti, Alexandre Bisdorff, Michael Brainin, Christian Enzinger, Maurizio Leone, Jera Kruja, Maurizio Leone, Celia Oreja-Guevar, Evzen Růžička, Anthony H.V. Schapira, Antonio Toscano