by Veronika Rutar Gorišek   A book review A must for a neurology resident Imagine having a friendly collegue you can ask almost anything, yet will answer with wisdom and accuracy of an experienced mentor. This is what Neurology at… Continue Reading

by Delia Lenzi A couple of days ago, NCBI has released a pilot version of a new service in PubMed that allows researchers to post comments on individual PubMed abstracts. Called PubMed Commons, this initiative, hopefully, will encourage constructive criticism… Continue Reading

This proposal aims at developing an EAN Newsletter (EANN) including society as well as scientific information. No name is suggested at this point for this publication, and the future EAN Newsletter is referred to as EANN. We propose that the main frame of the EAN Newsletter will be already prepared in June 2014 for the 2nd semester of the year, in order to give to the new President and new Board plenty of time to decide whatever they want without the risk of discontinuation of the newsletter.

The European Academy of Neurology (EAN) will be founded during the first Joint Meeting of the ENS and EFNS in Istanbul in June 2014. The democratic heart of the EAN will be the assembly of delegates, consisting of 45 individual… Continue Reading

When we started our speciality training in the UK and Switzerland in the 1970s and 1980s, general neurology was the backbone of clinical care and teaching in our countries (and most countries in Europe).

Online registration is now available for the Joint Congress of the European Neurology in Istanbul, Turkey.
You can profit from the early registration fee, if you organise your attendance before 20 March 2014.
Please log in/ register on www.efns.org, fill… Continue Reading

In the past year, the EFNS TEC has continued working with the same leader- and membership. The Committee consists of the following members:

In the past year the EFNS SubCommittee has continued working with a new leader- and membership. The SubCommittee consists of the following members:

The committee was founded in 2009 and the members are:

by Gunhild Waldemar and Eveline Sipido   I. Liaison Committee Revised Mandate Following the decision to form a joint EFNS-ENS Liaison Committee the mandate for the LC has been revised, and the list of LC members now also include ENS… Continue Reading

The members of the Scientific Committee (SC) at present are:

by Gian Luigi Lenzi Editor-in-Chief: Gian Luigi Lenzi
Co-editors: José Ferro, Christian Krarup, David B. Vodušek Editors: The EFNS Management Committee, ENS Executive Committee and the EFNS/ENS Transition Task Force have decided that Neuropenews should become the common newsletter of… Continue Reading

In the latest issue of the Communications from the European Neurological Society you will find information on:

by Wolfgang Grisold   From September 21 – 26, 2013 the WCN 2013 took placein Vienna. This year’s biannual meeting of the WFN was a joint meeting with the Austrian Society of Neurology (OeGN) and the European Federation of Neurology… Continue Reading

The HBP Summit held at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Lausanne on October 6 – 11 was the inaugural event of the Human Brain Project, recently selected by the EU as one of two, 1 billion euro, ten year… Continue Reading