EAN Department-Department Co-operation Programme Application Deadline: November 30, 2014 Since 2001, this training activity is highly appreciated by participants and hosting departments. Each grant is amounting to € 1,500.- plus travel expenses of up to € 300.-. The purpose of… Continue Reading

The UEMS EBN examination will be held one day prior to the 1st congress of the European Academy of Neurology in Berlin. http://www.uems-neuroboard.org/ebn/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=67n Date: Friday, June 19th, 2015 Venue: City Cube Berlin – Messe Berlin GmbH, Messedamm 22, 14055 Berlin,… Continue Reading

Report from Dr. Naida Nasrullayeva from Azerbaijan visiting the Department of Neurology at the University Hospital Copenhagen, Denmark under the supervision of Doctor Michael Oettinger. First of all, I would like to thank EFNS (EAN) for the opportunity to visit… Continue Reading

Rudolf Martini, Würzburg, Germany, was the first speaker of this session and talked about opportunities for treatment of CMT diseases. At the moment, there is no cure for these genetic neuropathies. Studies (mouse and human) with many substances studied, such as ascorbic acid, progesterone antagonist, curcumin, neurotrophin 3, carried out without success.

Call for applications for the Chief Editor of Neuropenews, the newsblog of the EAN and the Chief Editor of the website of the European Academy of Neurology The European Academy of Neurology has two major publication organs besides the scientific… Continue Reading

Neuropenews: How does it feel to be Chair of the “EAN Education Committee” and what is your main message to the neuro-community?

Professor Paul Boon works at the Ghent University Hospital, Department of Neurology, Belgium

Call for applications for the Chief Editor of Neuropenews, the newsblog of the EAN and the Chief Editor of the website of the European Academy of Neurology The European Academy of Neurology has two major publication organs besides the scientific… Continue Reading

Here is the link to the latest issue: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.2014.21.issue-9/issuetoc Don’t forget: All members of EAN do have free online access to the journal via www.eaneurology.org. If you need help with logging in, please contact headoffice@eaneurology.org European Journal of Neurology –… Continue Reading

Top articles 2012 1 = Serologic diagnosis of NMO: a multicenter comparison of aquaporin-4-IgG assays.
Waters, PJ; McKeon, A; Leite, MI; et al.
NEUROLOGY  Volume: 78   Issue: 9   Pages: 665-671   Published: FEB 2012
Times Cited: 70 (from Web of Science… Continue Reading

Franz Fazekas (FF): Building the EAN is a unique opportunity to strengthen the role and visibility of our specialty in patient care and clinical science throughout the continent and beyond.

by Thomas Berger Summer time is travel time. Hence, millions of holiday-makers criss-cross the globe. Infections, prevalent in some geographical areas more than others, might be an unexpected and potentially harmful „souvenir“ back home. (Differential-) diagnosis of such infections involving… Continue Reading

One of the most significant current changes in the organisation of medical education in Europe is the falling level of pharmaceutical company financial support for congresses.

 We have learned from Dr Paolo Giannetti, Italy, that his research supported by the EFNS Fellowship in 2009 has recently been published in Neurobiology of Disease, 65 (2014) 203-210: “Microglia activation in multiple sclerosis black holes predicts outcome in progressive… Continue Reading

The couple of papers that I would like to point out to our readers are strictly related, and their relevance stream out of the fact that at least 1 person is diagnosed every minute with neurodegenerative dementia ( mainly Alzheimer’s disease, but FTD and Lewy Body Disease as well), but scientists have not yet found a cure for both the disease itself and/or its symptoms progression.