by Zuhal Yapici The story of neurology dates back to ancient times, perhaps as early as the time when Egyptians used papyrus. It was on this writing material that Egyptians described unconsciousness, quadriparesis and hemiparesis. This is known as the… Continue Reading

by Turgay Dalkara Basic and clinical neuroscience post-graduate programs are run by the Neurological or Health Sciences Institutes in Turkish universities. The first programs were started in 1986 at the Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry, Hacettepe University, Ankara, which… Continue Reading

The Editors have – together with the Scientific Committee – decided that new EFNS consensus papers will be presented in the Forum of NEUROPENEWS. The new EFNS/ENS consensus on the diagnosis and management of chronic ataxias in adulthood is published… Continue Reading

The opening conference of the 2014 Brain Year Turkey organized by Turkish Brain Action Group under the leadership of Turkish Neurological Society was successfully held on February 18, 2014 in Ankara, Turkey.
The conference aimed to announce all the projects… Continue Reading

The two papers signalled for April 2014 belong to very different aspects of Neurology, or, better, of the Neurological Sciences.

by Delia Lenzi   Dr John Ioannidis, an epidemiologist, now at Stanford, is working on a new discipline: research about research. A war against the overinterpreting of statistical significance in studies with small sample sizes, and against publication bias. An… Continue Reading

The call for nominations of candidates for the EAN Board was sent in November 2013 and the application portal was open until 14 February 2014. Following a thorough review of all applications by the Election Organising Committee (EOC), a preliminary… Continue Reading

The European Brain Council, brain child of former EFNS President Jes Olesen, has announced the launch of the long waited Year of the Brain (YotB) this year. We had an official European Union Month of the Brain in May 2013 to which we have already drawn attention in NEUROPENEWS [https://www.eanpages.org/?p=3375].

It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the Fellowship 2014 (in alphabetical order):

As Julia Scheidl, EFNS Staff member for almost 5 years is on maternity leave, the EFNS has hired Marion Russ and Claudia Schalk to help us execute our ever-growing daily tasks at the Headoffice.

Top articles 2012 1 = Randomized phase III study 306: adjunctive perampanel for refractory partial-onset seizures.
Krauss, GL; Serratosa, JM; Villanueva, V; et al.
NEUROLOGY  Volume: 78   Issue: 18   Pages: 1408-1415   Published: MAY 2012 Times Cited: 46 (from Web of… Continue Reading

Dr. Vicenzini is the Chairperson of the next which actually is the 19th Congress of the European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics (ESNCH) in Rome

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

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

As in previous issues, 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 below …