by Srinivasa Raja and Rolf-Detlef Treede The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) declared at the last World Congress on Pain in Buenos Aires that the period, October 2014 to December 2015, would be the Global Year Against… Continue Reading

The first paper that I would like to point out to Neuropenews readers has attracted my attention because it concerns the impact of a “black-box” warning on the behaviour of a general and/or selected population. The paper has been published on the 30 October issue of the New England J of Medicine, by Richard A. Friedmanm (NEJM, 2014; 371;1666-1668): “Antidepressant’s Black-Box Warning – 10 years later”. The rate or suicidal thinking or suicidal behaviour was 4% in the treated cohort, in comparison to 2% in the placebo arm. Something to think about.

by Delia Lenzi Anxiety disorders are characterized by the inability to distinguish dangerous from safe stimuli. Ghosh and Chattarji explain here with a series of elegant experiments how this process is clearly located in the lateral amygdala and how two… Continue Reading

he number of patients with neurological diseases will rapidly increase in Europe during the next 50 years. For some of the neurological diseases even a doubling of the numbers of patients is expected. Therefore more neurologists are needed. One of the most important tasks of the EAN is to support all attempts to increase the attractiveness of neurology as a profession and to improve teaching for students, trainees and residents in our field.

Call for Abstracts, Bursaries, Tournament

This year the EAN Spring School for Young Neurologists will take place from May 7th to May 10th, 2015 at the Hotel Bezděz in Staré Splavy, Czech Republic.

Report from Dr Eugeniu Gavriliuc from Moldova visiting the Department of Neurology 2, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, France under the supervision of Professor Jean-Marc Léger. First of all, I would like to emphasise that fact that the educational programme that… Continue Reading

My research project was performed at the University of Glasgow, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, UK in the laboratory chaired by Professor Hugh Willison.

We are happy to welcome our new colleagues at EAN Head Office:

The Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and The Kavli Foundation have announced the first FENS-Kavli Scholars – 20 young European neuroscience researchers chosen for the excellence of their research, as well as promise to be among the field’s newest… Continue Reading

The European Brain Council sends out a newsletter as well as an External Environmental Report that brings articles and events of interest to the attention of its members. From these, the Neuropenews Editors identify those that are of interest for… Continue Reading

It is customary for the Editorial Board of Neuropenews to wish all our readers a very Joyful Christmas Holiday and a Healthy and Happy New Year.

Here is the link to the latest issue: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.2014.22.issue-1/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 International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) has launched the Global Year Against Neuropathic Pain on 20 October 2014. The Neuropathic Pain Year is intended to last till the end of 2015 (it seems to be a really special year that lasts 15 months!).

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