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

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 better understand the environment in which… Continue Reading

Abstract: Background: Long QT syndrome (LQTS) typically presents with syncope, seizures, or sudden death. Patients with LQTS have been misdiagnosed with a seizure disorder or epilepsy and treated with antiepileptic drug (AED) medication. The gene, KCNH2, responsible for type 2… Continue Reading

Israel Steiner, Chair of the EFNS Scientist Panel on Infectious Diseases

by Marco Mancinetti, Dragana Viceic-Filipovic and Patrik Michel A 72-year-old woman, known for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and active smoking, presented with an acute “train-like” sound in her head, retrosternal chest pain and headache. She has had epigastric pain and nausea in… 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 October 2012 issue of the European Journal of Neurology the new guideline paper on the… Continue Reading

16th EFNS Congress, Stockholm 2012 Another tournament for young neurologists took place at the EFNS Congress in Stockholm.
In two sessions, twelve young scientists presented their outstanding work. Again we could also award the runner-up prize in each session. We… Continue Reading

We congratulate the winners of the EFNS Investigator Awards 2012! The Prize consists of an Award certificate & €500,- Federica Agosta, Milan, Italy: Functional network connectivity in the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on… Continue Reading

The prize for the best presentation from Israel, awarded by the Neurological Association of Israel was awarded to: Polina Rabinovich Toidman

The 16th EFNS Congress in Stockholm from 8th to 11th September was terrific, the largest congress we have ever had with 5400 participants and a packed programme of main topic lectures, focussed workshops, oral presentations and poster sessions covering the whole spectrum of neurology. The programme was organised in collaboration with the Movement Disorder Society and by the European Federation of Autonomic Societies. Singling out individual items is invidious but the highlight of every congress is the EFNS clinical lecture, this year eloquently given by Professor Marie-Germaine Bousser from Paris on CADASIL (cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy). She told us about her first family with young onset stroke and migraine and cerebral white matter lesions.

By Sten Fredrikson Dear Colleagues, During September 8-11, 2012 the 16th Congress of EFNS took place in Stockholm, Sweden. Before the meeting 2200 abstracts had been submitted. There were 5400 delegates from 105 countries registered at the meeting. We are… Continue Reading

Abstract: Background: Bevacizumab has recently been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for recurrent glioblastoma (GBM). However, patterns of relapse, prognosis, and outcome of further therapy after bevacizumab failure have not been studied systematically.
Methods: We identified patients… Continue Reading

Sten Grillner, President of FENS (Federation of European Neuroscience Societies)