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

by Orsolya Györfi & Edina Varga   The most important congress for neurologists this year was the joint congress of the World Federation of Neurology (WCN) and the European Fedreation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) in Vienna, Austria, 21-26 September 2013.… Continue Reading

  The European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees (EAYNT) is pleased to announce a Photo Competition. The aim of this contest is to reflect how a Young Neurologist sees the ‘Joys of Neurology’. To enter the competition upload a… 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: 367 (from… Continue Reading

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): Can you give a brief overview of the epidemiology of neurological disorders in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) especially in relation to epilepsy?

The EFNS Scientist Panels and ENS Subcommittees 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 Ana Sruk, Hrvoje Budinčević, Ivan Bielen We present a 70-year-old woman whose symptoms started in the afternoon hours 3 days before hospital admission, with a sudden onset of vertigo followed by excessive daytime sleepiness and extended sleep period. The… Continue Reading

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.