The Editors have – together with the Scientific Committee – decided that new guideline papers will be presented in the Forum of NEUROPENEWS. In the January issue of the European Journal of Neurology the EFNS/MDS-ES/ENS Recommendations for the Diagnosis of… Continue Reading

A massive study of the global burden of disease has been published in the most recent issue of the Lancet (Horton 2012). It reports the mortality, causes of death, years lived with disability and disability-adjusted life years for 291 conditions in 21 regions taking into account 67 risk factors. Between 1990 and 2010 the world population has risen from 3.7 to 6.9 billion people.

From September until November 2012 a questionnaire on how our readers like Neuropenews was online.
Unfortunately we did not get much response, i.e. only 90 persons filled in the form. Still it was interesting to see the opinion of this… Continue Reading

A task force of the European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees (EAYNT) headed by Dr. Laszlo K. Sztriha (London, UK) completed a survey on e-learning preferences of European Junior Neurologists. Interested readers are referred to following link:
http://www.frontiersin.org/Neurology_Education/10.3389/fneur.2012.00167/full  … Continue Reading

http://ec.europa.eu/research/brainmonth2013 Within the Month of the Brain, two major conferences are planned for 14 May (Brussels, Belgium) and 27&28 May (Dublin, Ireland). 14 May 2013 (Brussels, Belgium): This first conference will be dedicated to “European Brain Research: Successes and Next… Continue Reading

EBC – External Environment Reports and EU Research updates As you are aware, times change so quickly that we must think, work, step out of the box we are in. In order to help to better understand the environment in… Continue Reading

Abstract Objective: Idiopathic REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) is a potential preclinical marker for the development of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly Parkinson disease (PD) and Lewy body dementia. However, the long-term risk of developing neurodegeneration in patients with idiopathic RBD has… Continue Reading

Professor Babro Westerholm is a Swedish Liberal People's Party politician. She has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006. She was previously a member from 1988 to 1999. From the mid 1960s Westerholm was an early pioneer in the field of pharmacovigilance, also working on the early stages of the WHO Drug Dictionary and the WHO Programme for International Drug Monitoring.

by Sara Machado et al. Introduction: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) affects preferentially the optic nerve and spinal cord; and its serum marker, the antibody against AQP4, has improved the diagnosis. AQP4 is heavily expressed in area postrema, which explains clinical presentations… Continue Reading

Neuropenews is an open internet bulletin and it seems we are read not only by neurologists and neuroscientists but also by the lay public. We have namely obtained the occasional letter from a neurological patient.
As neurologists we appreciate the… Continue Reading

One of the special sessions at the EFNS Congress in Stockholm was devoted to ‘Critical illness and end-of-life considerations’, and held on 11 September 2012. The session was announced in the Programme book: There is an interface between law and… Continue Reading

by Gustave Moonen and Jacques de Reuck EFNS and ENS are very pleased to announce their upcoming Joint Congress in 2014: The congress will take place at the Istanbul Congress Centre and start on Saturday May 31 and end on… Continue Reading

The Editors have – together with the Scientific Committee – decided that new guideline papers will be presented in the Forum of NEUROPENEWS. In the December 2012 issue of the European Journal of Neurology the new guideline paper on the… Continue Reading

by Gian Luigi Lenzi With this December issue, NEUROPENEWS has published 12 issues in 2012: one year of presence in the Neuroweb panorama and for the EFNS web-linked fellows. So, it is the right time for a summary and self-examination.… Continue Reading

Sherlock Holmes lived round the corner from my home at the fictitious address of 221b Baker Street. His larger than life statue nurses his traditional pipe as he greets travellers emerging from Baker Street underground station. For him evidence might be as little as a trace of mud on the soles of a suspect’s shoes. For neurologists observation may be adequate evidence for a clinical diagnosis and observational evidence may even suffice for some treatments.