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

The Call for Applications is open until 14 February 2014, 24:00h CET. Applications for the following Board positions are possible: President
Vice President
Secretary General
Treasurer
Chairperson Scientific Committee
Chairperson Liaison Committee
Member at Large In the December issue of… Continue Reading

The first EAN General Assembly will take place on 3 June 2014 in Istanbul, when EAN will be founded. The delegates to the General Assembly are: Yuri Alekseenko, Belarus
Corrado Angelini, Italy
Zohar Argov, Israel
Anita Arsovska, FYRO Macedonia
Eduard… Continue Reading

After the Christmas and New Year festivities, it is time to think of the standard of care we provide for our patients on holidays and at weekends. A day of rest, Friday, Saturday or Sunday, is built into the Muslim, Jewish and Christian week.

On behalf of the German Neurological Society I am pleased to invite you to the 1st Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), taking place in Berlin from 20 to 23 June 2015.

Call for Abstracts, Bursaries, Tournament Would you like to have the chance to perform in front of 6,000 delegates at the Joint Congress of European Neurology? Don’t miss the opportunity to present your latest research at this memorable Joint Congress … Continue Reading

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 European Neurology in Istanbul, Turkey.
The examination is a joint development of the… Continue Reading