Italian scientists reporting at the Congress of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona have sparked hopes in a future pharmacological therapy for treating pathological gambling. The researchers showed that the substance amantadine can substantially reduce important symptoms of this disorder.… Continue Reading

Video games have not only taken living rooms by storm but are also increasingly recognised as valuable support in the field of medicine. The same holds true for the treatment of patients who have lost certain sequences of movement and… Continue Reading

by Wolfgang Grisold This September the World Congress of Neurology (WCN) 2013 will take place in Vienna jointly with the EFNS and the Austrian Society of Neurology. And for the first time in the history of congresses of the World… Continue Reading

Under the theme of “Neurology in the Age of Globalisation”, the XXI World Congress of Neurology (WCN 2013) will provide neurologists from Europe and around the world an unparalleled opportunity to exchange knowledge and information. The congress will take place… 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: 275 (from… Continue Reading

Titulaer MJ, Soffietti R, Dalmau J, Gilhus NE, Giometto B, Graus F, Grisold W, Honnorat J, Sillevis Smitt PAE, Tanasescu R, Vedeler CA, Voltz R, Verschuuren JJGM
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Pages: 19-e3 Published: January 2011… Continue Reading

by Gian Luigi Lenzi The first year, NEUROPENEWS, published every month the abstract of one of the scientific publications from the year 2009 that received the largest number of quotations during 2011. This interval of at least a year between… Continue Reading

The EFNS Scientist Panels and ENS Subcommittees aim at coordinating the 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… Continue Reading

by Mariana Leitão Marques, R. Taipa, M. Melo Pires, J. N. Carvalho, A. Morgadinho We report a female patient, 82 years old, who in February 2010 started developing asthenia, fatigue and breathlessness on minimal exertion. Until that time she was… Continue Reading

ROAD MAP TO ISTANBUL
NEWS FROM EFNS & ENS In Barcelona, on June 8th, 2013, during the 23rd ENS Meeting, that was by the way the last ENS Meeting, the newsletter editors from ENS and EFNS, Prof. José Ferro and… Continue Reading

  by Vladimir Hachinski This article was first published in Neurology 2013; 80(24), June 11, 2013. The Congress theme acknowledges that science and increasingly medicine and neurology are becoming globalised. The best way to manage change is to shape it.… Continue Reading

by Reinhold Schmidt Longitudinal population-based studies have provided important information on the prevalence and incidence of dementia and it´s subtypes in the general population However, such studies consider incident dementia as an endpoint because their design is not suited to… Continue Reading

by Delia Lenzi This month a tweet provided me with a very interesting article (and discussion) from Ed Yong, an award-winning British science writer, on the reliability of results in neuroscience papers. He took his inspiration from a paper published… Continue Reading

Do you shake hands with your patients? I think you should, usually. As a junior doctor I was impressed by the example of consultants who greeted their patients by shaking hands and adopted this as a life-long practice. I would not claim that shaking hands is diagnostically useful: the detection of extrapyramidal rigidity or myotonia is more likely to be made from special tests of tone than from the initial handshake.

Staré Splavy, Hotel Bezděz, Czech Republic
May, 9-12, 2013 Our 14th course took place during the month of May, which was labelled by the European Union as European Month of the Brain to raise awareness of the importance of brain-related… Continue Reading