I have had the great honor of being one of the neurologists selected by the EFNS Training and Education Committee for the 2012 Scientific Fellowship. I have spent a year in the Neurology Department of the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
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Three important steps to European Neurology harmonisation: core curriculum, visitation programme, European board examination
by Walter Struhal, Svein Ivar Mellgren and Wolfgang Grisold Although specialties in Europe have some common guidelines in most European countries neurologic training is practiced differently [1]. These differences might represent a “glass barrier” for residents and young neurologists… Continue Reading -
By communicating effectively with their patients, the doctor ensures more successful treatment outcomes. Improved doctor-patient communication leads to greater compliance in taking medication and enables more effective self-management for people with long-term chronic conditions. Having this in mind, the European… Continue Reading
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by Balthasar Schaap Based on the discussions held in Dublin in May 2013 as part of the month of the brain, I prepared some topics for training neurologists from the patients’ point of view: Topics that need more attention in… Continue Reading
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Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, EU Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science made May 2013 the European Month of the Brain (EMoB). Events and activities took place across Europe to increase the profile of all brain diseases and to contribute to the development… Continue Reading
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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): Headache is one of the more/most frequent reasons for a patient to visit a hospital or emergency room. Would you agree with this statement?
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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 -
by Boban Labovic, Ranko Raicevic, Toplica Lepic, Dragana Veljancic Hot water epilepsy (HWE) represents a rare clinical entity classified in a group of “reflex epilepsy” in which seizures are precipitated by hot water during bathing. Typically age at onset… Continue Reading
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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).
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Joint Congress of European Neurology – Istanbul 2014: Abstract submission and Registration is open now!
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