Dear colleagues, On behalf of the European Academy of Neurology and the European Alzheimer’s disease consortium (EADC), we would like to invite all members to express their opinion regarding the use of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) in current European practice… Continue Reading

Here is the link to the latest issue:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.2014.21.issue-12/issuetoc?campaign=woletoc Don’t forget: All members of the EAN 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

The Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for 2014 has been awarded to three neuroscientists; John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser.  They have received the prize for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. May-Britt and Edvard Moser is a young, married couple from Trondheim, Norway, that during the last decade has published a series of Science and Nature papers on the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex of the brain. They show how the brain creates a map of the space surrounding us and how we can navigate through a complex environment by using these cells.

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

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As Chair of the Liaison Committee, can you illustrate the role you give to EAN within the community of European neurologists? David Vodušek (DV): We Europeans have become accustomed to “European institutions”. Although – related to… Continue Reading

by Hannah Cock Headache is felt at some time by nearly everybody, and the WHO estimates that almost half the world’s adults at any one time have recent personal experience of one or more of the three common primary headache… Continue Reading

In 2012, 43.919 physicians decided to relocate to another EU member state, ranking physicians in second place of professional groups motivated to migrate. Recently, the European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees (EAYNT) conducted a survey to assess motivations for cross-border mobility among residents and junior neurologists from member states of the European Union and neighboring countries.

Following last month’s chapter 1 about “founding fathers of the 19th century” we here continue this historical retrospect with a short review of German neurology in the early 20th century.

The first paper that I would like to point out to Neuropenews readers has been published in a very “peripheral” Journal, such as Missouri Medicine, at least in respect to European Neurology. However, the paper “Beta blocker eye drops for treatment of acute migraine”, by Migliazzo CV, and JC Hagan, Missouri Medicine, 111, 2014, 283-288 has been highly “tagged” by neurologists. Seven cases of acute migraine patients, successfully treated with beta blocker eye drops are reported.

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