Immunological features of late-onset myasthenia (LOMG) in comparison to early-onset myasthenia (EOMG).

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The 5th European Board Examination will be held on Friday June 7, 2013 in conjunction with the 23rd Meeting of the European Neurological Society in Barcelona, Spain. Until 2012 the EBN Examination has been restricted to countries of the EU… Continue Reading

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We report the results of a meta-analysis of genome-wide association scans for multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility that includes 2,624 subjects with MS and 7,220 control subjects. Replication in an independent set of 2,215 subjects with MS and 2,116 control… Continue Reading

Neuropenews is pleased that the interview with Professor Martino is published now that the Nobel Prize was received by John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka. It is important that together with the relevance given to stem cell therapy, patients are also cautioned about the actual limitation of this approach and about the fact that unethical medical groups may – without any clinical result - profit from the glamour.

by Liliya Zvyagina A 30-year-old woman presented with severe headache, nausea and vomiting to the hospital for infectious diseases and was admitted.
She reported a spontaneous sudden onset of headache with nausea and vomiting 3 days ago. She described the… Continue Reading

by Detlef Kömpf The EFNS and ENS will cease to exist at our first EFNS/ENS Joint Meeting in Istanbul in June 2014. Our new joint Society, the European Academy of Neurology, EAN, will be founded at the very same time.… 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 November 2012 issue of the European Journal of Neurology the new guideline paper on the… Continue Reading

The derivation of the word Europe is uncertain. It may come from a Phoenician word meaning “the west” or another meaning “of a white or fair aspect”. It has nothing to do with the mythical maiden Europa who was abducted from Phoenicia (the region around modern Lebanon) by Jupiter disguised as a bull: she rode on his back to Crete where in due course she gave birth to Minos. Homer used the word Europe to define the area around Greece.

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by Vitalie Lisnic The profile of the participants of the teaching courses (TCs) of the 16th EFNS Congress was analyzed for the 8th consecutive time since the 9th EFNS Congress in Athens, 2005. At the Congress in Stockholm 647 TC… Continue Reading

In 2011, I got the unique chance to carry out a project investigating changed pain inhibition with patients with complex regional pain syndrome at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany supported by the EFNS scientific fellowship.

by Svein Ivar Mellgren and Wolfgang Grisold The 4th European Board Examination in Neurology was generously hosted by the European Federation of Neurological Societies at the venue of the 16th EFNS Congress at Stockholmmässan in Stockholm, Sweden on September 7,… Continue Reading

by Edina Timea Varga The European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees (EAYNT) is the independent representative of 800 junior European neurologists. EAYNT was founded in 1999 in Brussels.
The aim of the society is to advocate young neurologists interests… Continue Reading

by Orsolya Györfi The close collaboration between the Italian Association of Neuroepidemiology, the EFNS and the Moldovan Neurological Society led to a great initiative: the organisation of the 1st International Course of Neuroepidemiology in Eastern Europe from 24-28 September 2012,… Continue Reading