All e-learning activities are free-of-charge for EFNS members registered to www.efns.org! Answer all questions correctly and you will receive one hour of CME. European Journal of Neurology Every month one article is chosen for online learning. The following articles are… Continue Reading

Through the EFNS fellowship, I was able to carry out my project “Cerebral ischaemia measured using MRI spectroscopy (cerebral ischaemia study)” at the Acute Stroke research unit, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK chaired by Prof. Kennedy Lees. Doing this research from an interdisciplinary perspective has been a novel approach and I’m grateful I was able to begin my involvement with EFNS Scientific Fellowship at this stage in my career.

by Wolfgang Grisold and Svein Ivar Mellgren The 6th European Board examination in Neurology will be held on Friday May 30, 2014 during the joint congress of the ENS and EFNS (EAN) in Istanbul, Turkey. The examination is a joint… Continue Reading

Top articles 2012 1 = Randomized phase III study 306: adjunctive perampanel for refractory partial-onset seizures.
Krauss, GL; Serratosa, JM; Villanueva, V; et al.
NEUROLOGY  Volume: 78   Issue: 18   Pages: 1408-1415   Published: MAY 2012 Times Cited: 43 (from Web of… Continue Reading

Finn Boerlum Kristensen is Chairman of the Executive Committee, European Network for HTA (EUnetHTA), and Director of the Coordinating Secretariat of EUnetHTA Joint Action, National Board of Health, Denmark

The EFNS Scientist Panels and ENS Subcommittees aim at coordinating different facets of clinical research and good neurological practice at European level. They will play a very important role in the European Academy of Neurology – EAN. We invited the… Continue Reading

As in previous issues, Neuropenews asked EFNS/ENS committee members, Panel chairs, Speakers, … which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Istanbul, June 2014. You will find the answers below …

by Thomas Berger, Chair of the e-learning Subcommittee eBrain was successfully developed within 24 months by a small but effective lead team (S. Shorvon, S. Thompson, K. Hardy-Smith, H. Cock, T. Berger), representing the unique partnership of the UK Joint… Continue Reading

by Gian Luigi Lenzi During the recent Christmas holidays I went back to one of my youth’s favourite books, a book published more than 700 years ago: “IL MILIONE”, that is the journey of Marco Polo to the Far East.… Continue Reading

By Reha Tolun The history of diagnostic neuroradiology begins with the invention of x-ray and its application as craniography in the very early 20th century. A famous neurosurgeon, Dandy, was the first to perform pneumoencephalography in 1918. Drainage of spinal… Continue Reading

Dear readers, here are the papers published in the previous month, that I suggest to read:

by Delia Lenzi We know almost nothing about it (the brain, yes, again). And we’ve (re-)started with this conviction. Maybe because of this, it might be the right time. I really recomend you to spend some of your time watching… Continue Reading

(What takes really long will finally work out well) German saying by Werner Hacke Back in time in the early 90ies as a young chairperson of Neurology at the University of Heidelberg I was a member of the ENS and… Continue Reading

Michael Strupp is Professor of Neurology at the Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He is co-editor of the Journal of Neurology. José Ferro (JF): How do you see the creation of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN)? Michael Strupp (MS):… Continue Reading

In our Presidents' letter of November 2013 we concluded that academic general neurology should have a future. Among the main reasons for this statement we listed the care of patients, the education of students and residents, the growing evidence for an intricate and unsuspected relationship between many diseases of the nervous system, each today still „belonging“ to separate subspecialties.