Neuropenews (NN) has as one of its constant features a Section, named “TOP 10”, with the list of the 10 most cited papers in the neurological literature over the preceding two (full) years, i.e. for the NN 2014 Issues, the publication years 2012 and 2013.

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As President of the European Stroke Organisation, can you illustrate the role you would like EAN to cover within the world of European Neurology? Kennedy Lees (KL): EAN should represent specialists in neurology to ensure that their contribution to stroke care is recognised, and in countries where this is under-represented should work to promote their involvement. It should offer an educational function, teaching general neurologists about the latest and most important aspects of stroke that they may encounter in their practice. 

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As Coordinator of the European Affairs Sub-Committee of the EAN, can you illustrate the role you give to EAN within the community of European Neurologists? Wolfgang Oertel (WO): EAN represents all European Neurologists – from Uzbekistan to Portugal, from Malta to Island and neurologists from all countries which are and/or wish to be closely related to Europe - for example countries around the Mediterranean area. EAN is the one and only professional European society for neurologists. It speaks for the first time ever in the 160 year long history of European neurology with one voice – through the president and the officers. Every neurologist should realize that she/he now has a professional home and a united and powerful society to represent and pursue her or his interest. And neurologists should use this new chance.

The year of 2015 is the Global Year Against Neuropathic Pain, launched by The International Association for the Study of Pain. Pain is the problem which makes the patient addressing the physician.  The neurologists face lots of problems when they… Continue Reading

Make the best use of the upcoming weekend and submit your abstracts to the 1st EAN Congress in Berlin, Germany. Login with your EAN username and password on www.eaneurology.org/berlin2015

After World War II, German neurology had to restart from almost point zero. Even though three “old” neurology chairs at the universities in Hamburg (Heinrich Pette), Heidelberg (Paul Vogel) and Würzburg (Georges Schaltenbrand) still existed or were reinstituted immediately, the process of emancipation of neurology as an independent field had been reversed between 1933 and 1945 (see previous chapters of this series).

by Srinivasa Raja and Rolf-Detlef Treede The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) declared at the last World Congress on Pain in Buenos Aires that the period, October 2014 to December 2015, would be the Global Year Against… Continue Reading

The first paper that I would like to point out to Neuropenews readers has attracted my attention because it concerns the impact of a “black-box” warning on the behaviour of a general and/or selected population. The paper has been published on the 30 October issue of the New England J of Medicine, by Richard A. Friedmanm (NEJM, 2014; 371;1666-1668): “Antidepressant’s Black-Box Warning – 10 years later”. The rate or suicidal thinking or suicidal behaviour was 4% in the treated cohort, in comparison to 2% in the placebo arm. Something to think about.

by Delia Lenzi Anxiety disorders are characterized by the inability to distinguish dangerous from safe stimuli. Ghosh and Chattarji explain here with a series of elegant experiments how this process is clearly located in the lateral amygdala and how two… Continue Reading

he number of patients with neurological diseases will rapidly increase in Europe during the next 50 years. For some of the neurological diseases even a doubling of the numbers of patients is expected. Therefore more neurologists are needed. One of the most important tasks of the EAN is to support all attempts to increase the attractiveness of neurology as a profession and to improve teaching for students, trainees and residents in our field.

Call for Abstracts, Bursaries, Tournament

This year the EAN Spring School for Young Neurologists will take place from May 7th to May 10th, 2015 at the Hotel Bezděz in Staré Splavy, Czech Republic.

Report from Dr Eugeniu Gavriliuc from Moldova visiting the Department of Neurology 2, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, France under the supervision of Professor Jean-Marc Léger. First of all, I would like to emphasise that fact that the educational programme that… Continue Reading

My research project was performed at the University of Glasgow, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, UK in the laboratory chaired by Professor Hugh Willison.

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