Elena Moro (EM): We congratulate you on your appointment as new Chair of the MDS-European Section. Which role do you expect the MDS-European Section to cover within the EAN and the European neurology world? How do you foresee the cooperation between the MDS-ES and the EAN? Which main joint educational initiatives would you particularly promote and why? Joaquim Ferreira (JF): First I would like to start by congratulating the EAN and its Board for the success of the first congress in Berlin. The founding of the EAN is a major achievement for the world of neurology and will have positive implications that will reach beyond European borders. I would also like to extend my compliments to all stakeholders who had the vision and the generosity to contribute to this major cause.

Elena Moro (EM): As Chair of the Education Committee, can you illustrate the role you give to EAN within the community of European neurologists? Hannah Cock (HC): I see my role as leading on the Educational Strategy of the EAN, and overseeing the delivery of educational activities to support this, in parallel with ensuring robust quality assurance mechanisms are in place. Education underpins much of the EAN vision, and is also a substantial component of the annual budget so this is a role I take very seriously, working closely with my colleagues on the board and of course the committee and subcommittees.

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).