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 ENS elected the 45 individual members for the new European Academy of Neurology (EAN) General… Continue Reading

The Transition Task Force has formed an Election Organising Committee to oversee the first Board Election of the European Academy of Neurology in Istanbul 2014. The Transition Task Force has laid down rules of procedure of which the following is… Continue Reading

by Alexander Bisdorff and Jan Kuks The UEMS (Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes) has as a main objective to set the basis for European standards in postgraduate medical training and to develop a mechanism of evaluation of medical specialists’ competence… Continue Reading

by Delia Lenzi In a continent where people die for so many common and well known causes, it is easy to neglect other clinical conditions. Konzo and nodding syndrome are two particularly nasty neurological members of this class and do… Continue Reading

This is the first NEUROPENEWS page written jointly by the Presidents of the both EFNS and the ENS. It marks a further step in the ever closer collaboration of the two organisations which will smooth the transition to the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) next summer.

The World Congress of Neurology, 21-26 September 2013, co-organised by the Austrian Society of Neurology, the World Federation of Neurology and the European Federation of Neurological Societies was a great success.

1st Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, Berlin, Germany - June 20-23, 2015

At the EFNS/ENS Joint Congress of European Neurology in Istanbul, June 2014, one strong unified European neurological society, the EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY will be founded. THE ASSEMBLY OF DELEGATES will be the democratic heart of the EAN: 45 national… 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: 295 (from… Continue Reading

Introduction by Gian Luigi Lenzi As Editor-in chief of Neuropenews, I have preferred, so far, not to write any particular Introductions to the Interviews that Neuropenews publishes monthly, kindly released by public authorities in the Neurological world and elsewhere.
Our… Continue Reading

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

by Giovanni Piccirillo, A. Tessitore, A. Giordano, M. Cirillo, M.R. Monsurro’, G. Tedeschi A 58-year-old woman presented with a one-year history of painful paresthesia in the lower and upper limbs and progressive disturbance of gait. In 1960 she had a… Continue Reading

Dear Readers of Neuropenews and Grand Rounds! Looking back at Grand Rounds 2013 we had a series of very interesting cases, well documented by authors and discussed by EFNS experts. Some of the cases were indeed as yet unsolved, others… Continue Reading

by Eberhard Deisenhammer Franz Gerstenbrand was born in south Moravia as a son of a general practitioner. He visited regular schools in nearby Nikolsburg. He had to participate in the German Army. After World War II he started studying medicine… Continue Reading

By Klemens Fheodoroff Neurorehabilitation has a long tradition in Austria. Already in 1951 the first European rehabilitation centre for spinal cord injury patients opened in Austria. In 1956 a Polio rehabilitation centre for children opened in Hermagor, Carinthia. In 1968… Continue Reading