Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As Chair of the Teaching Course Sub-Committee of the EAN, can you illustrate the role you give to EAN within the community of European neurologists? Theodor Landis (TL): EAN, the fusion of the two major European neurological societies, should become the home for neurology and neurology related specialities. It should combine the strongholds and particularities of both previous societies in a harmonious way and as such that it appeals to the broad majority of neurologists all over Europe. 

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As President of the EHF, can you illustrate the role you would like EAN to cover within the world of European Neurology? Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas (DDM): The European Headache Federation represents all national Headache Societies in Europe and neighbouring nations. Since its foundation in 1992, EHF has sought to improve the life of those affected by headache in this territory. Headache is by far the commonest neurological symptom and primary headache disorders are the most frequent neurological conditions affecting million Europeans.

As in the previous year, Neuropenews asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, speakers, … which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Berlin, June 2015. Please find their answers below …

The 5th London-Innsbruck Colloquium on Status Epilpticus will be in London on 9-11th April, and is a reminder to all of the importance of this condition.
eBrain has specific sessions both on convulsive status epilepticus, http://www.ebrainjnc.com/learning/course/view.php?id=203 and the less serious,… Continue Reading

FNA is the umbrella organisation for more than 20 pan-European disease-specific neurology patient organisations. It will work with Pain Alliance Europe to push neurological and chronic pain conditions higher up the European agenda.

As outlined in previous chapter VI of this series, the last three decades have seen a steadily growing number of neurologists (not only) in Germany. This continuing rise is certainly supported by the expanding diagnostic and therapeutic options for neurological diseases, but this alone wouldn’t suffice as an explanation.

by Johann Sellner, Antonella Macerollo There are limited data available on the current visions of neurologists for health care and neurology. We aimed to garner ideas about current challenges and future development of health care among residents and junior neurologists… Continue Reading

We are very excited to start The Paper of the Month new heading with this Neuropenews issue of April. The main purpose of this new column is to provide our readers with some hints about the most relevant papers published over the last months in the neurology field. For March 2015 we have selected: Kuramatsu JB, Gerner ST, Schellinger PD, et al. Anticoagulant reversal, blood pressure levels, and anticoagulant resumption in patients with anticoagulation-related intracerebral hemorrhage. JAMA 2015;313:824-836.

by Delia Lenzi Using an increasingly popular gene-editing toolkit called CRISPR, Gantz and Bier were able to overcome the classic rules of Mendelian genetics. This is an impressive example of gene drive: biasing inheritance to spread a gene rapidly through… Continue Reading

I’m delighted to announce that for future congresses, starting with Berlin 2015, the EAN will award up to 5 certificates of ‘excellence in teaching’ to the best speakers in any of the congress educational activities (interactive workshops, teaching courses, hands… Continue Reading

It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the Fellowship 2015 (in alphabetical order): Scientific Fellowship: Elena Antelmi from Italy was selected for her project: “Sensorimortor modulation in dystonia induced by low frequency (@1HZ) repetitive tactile stimulation” which… Continue Reading

Who is eligible as an individual member of EAN: Full Individual Members can be neurologists who are nationals of any EAN member country; and/or neurologists practicing in any EAN member country including neurologists in training. Associate Individual Members may be:… Continue Reading

For the 1st EAN Congress in Berlin 2015, a total of 1966 abstracts were submitted. Out of these, 1740 abstracts were accepted. There will be 26 oral sessions with 6 presentations each taking place from Saturday – Monday in the… Continue Reading

The 2015 participants of the EAN Tournament for Young Neurologists will receive a travel grant to Berlin, free congress registration and up to four nights’ of hotel accommodation: Tournament 1 – Basic neurology
Monday, 22 June 2015, 14:45-16:15h, Hall A2… Continue Reading

Congratulations to Ander Ramos-Murguialday, a research scientist at the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Tubingen in Germany, the winner of the 2nd WFNR Franz Gerstenbrand Award. Professor Stephanie Clarke, WFNR President, said: “The standard… Continue Reading