by Delia Lenzi The Somatosensory system is known to be a multimodal system but we still know little about these proprieties. In particular, researchers are discovering that one of these submodalities —touch — has another dimension, besides that of decoding… Continue Reading

The Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award is one of the most important medical awards and goes this year to Mahlong R. Delong, Atlanta, USA and Alim Benabid, Grenoble, France for the ‘development of deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus (STN-DBS), a surgical technique that reduces tremors and restores motor function in patients with advanced Parkinson's disease’.

Since 2001, this training activity has been highly appreciated by participants and hosting departments. Each grant is amounting to € 1,500.- plus travel expenses of up to € 300.-. The purpose of this award is to support the accommodation and board expenses in the city of practice. The grant is supposed to allow a visit of a six weeks duration. If a participant is able to accept a low budget board, it may be possible to stay longer than six weeks in the hosting department.

Report from Dr Pawel Chochol from Poland visiting the Department of Neurology at the Royal London Hospital, United Kingdom under the supervision of Dr Salek-Haddadi. I visited the United Kingdom on an eight-week Department-Department Co-Operation Programme at the Royal London… Continue Reading

I would like to express my gratitude towards the European Academy of Neurology for the honour to organize the Regional Teaching Course in Sofia, Bulgaria which proved to be an event excelling in terms of attendance and content. In this respect I would like to thank all the invited speakers for their great responsiveness and support.

You are invited to apply for the WFNR Franz Gerstenbrand Award for clinicians, researchers and allied health professionals to recognise and reward a neurorehabilitation project that has benefitted patients. Named after Professor Franz Gerstenbrand in recognition of his continuous contributions… Continue Reading

Below are articles of special interest recommended in the last issue of the
EBC – external environment report:
2nd HBP Education Workshop: “Future Medicine” (Horizon 2020) The aim of the second Human Brain Project Education Workshop is to introduce the… Continue Reading

The Nobel Assembly has decided to award the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine to three European Neuroscientists with one half to John O´Keefe and the other half jointly to the couple May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells “that constitute a positioning system in the brain, an inner GPS in the brain, that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space, demonstrating a cellular basis for higher cognitive function“.

by Gian Luigi Lenzi Last month we were contacted and asked, why certain top cited articles on neurological sub-specialties were not listed, why our selected articles were published mainly on a couple of journals, and how the articles on our… 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: 77 (from Web of Science… Continue Reading

by Thomas Berger With the beginning of the winter term you might be again engaged in education of students and residents. To support your teaching activities eBrain offers broad educative opportunities with e-learning sessions, webinars and virtual case reports. The… Continue Reading

by Gian Luigi Lenzi Neuropenews has recently received the request to publish in the „Interviews“ section an interview where an eminent neurologist A was interviewing a second eminent neurologist B who had been awarded a prize in the country of… Continue Reading

Richard Frackowiak is head of the department of clinical neurosciences at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and co-director of the Human Brain Project. He is also chairman of the Medical Science Committee of Science Europe.

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As Chair of the Scientific Committee, can you illustrate the role you give to the EAN within the community of European neurologists? Antonio Federico (AF): EAN has a very important role, because it is the only… Continue Reading

Within the framework of the European year of the brain, the Austrian Society of Neurology is intensifying its public relations with information on neurological diseases and the achievements of the Austrian neurology. On the occasion of the World MS Day,… Continue Reading