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.

For a period of 6 months, supported by the EFNS educational fellowship, I spent an amazing and enriching period of my life at the Child Neurology Department, Hospital San Joan De Deu, Barcelona, Spain, with Dr. A. Garcia Cazorla’s research team.

We are happy to inform that a list of the Symposia, Teaching Courses, Focused Workshops, Interactive Sessions, Hands-on Courses and Special Sessions that are scheduled for the 1st EAN Congress in Berlin, Germany - 20-23 June 2015 - is online now.

During the Joint Congress of European Neurology in Istanbul 2014 you will have a splendid programme to fill your heads with the latest in neurological science and clinical practice, but it is also very important to find the time to exchange ideas and set the basis for future co-operations, working groups or simply free your mind for the next day and next session.

The European Brain Council’s Weekly EU Research Update 
Please click on the links below to view updates of the latest EU projects relevant to mental health and neurological research: European-COMPARative Effectiveness research on online Depression
Project Acronym: E-COMPARED Communication of… Continue Reading

Quote of the week The time is right to elevate the conversation on health. For the past few years, the critical state of the financial system absorbed much of Davos participants’ attention. This year, there is a sense that the… Continue Reading

High grade gliomas There is a huge amount of content within ebrain that is relevant to this month’s topic.  The following is a guide to selected content but it is by no means exhaustive! As an introduction you might consider… Continue Reading

Top articles 2011 1 = Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 revisions to the McDonald criteria Polman, CH.; Reingold, SC; Banwell, B; et al.
ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY Volume: 69 Issue: 2 Pages: 292-302 Published: FEB 2011 Times Cited: 469 (from… Continue Reading

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

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 in the upcoming issues of Neuropenews.

Dear fellow neurologists,
Neuropenews has changed the policy regarding the Grand Rounds section.  As you might remember, in the beginning there was an open invitation for written presentations of unsolved or controversial cases. Most case reports have then actually been… Continue Reading

by Kursad Kutluk Intravenous thrombolysis is the only approved acute stroke treatment worldwide. The use of intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA) for acute ischemic stroke within the first three hours has been licenced in 2006, in Turkey. The time… Continue Reading

Dear readers, here are a couple of papers published in the previous months, with a few lines explaining why these papers appear worth signalling over the many others that had not aroused a particular attention.

A very interesting paper recently published on PNAS sheds light on the mechanisms that connect social stress to increased risk of disease. Authors found that such effects are possible trough the “wires” of the sympathetic nervous system which up-regulate bone… Continue Reading