"EAN 2025"

The EAN Education Committee is happy to announce and introduce the recipients of the 2024 Student Teaser Fellowship. Congratulations to the winners!

Read the latest reports on EAN Student Teaser Fellowships that took place in 2023. Find out how our future neurologists got on in their chosen departments.

The first annual meeting of the EAN Resident and Research Fellow Section (RRFS) took place in Porto, Portugal, on 9-10 March, bringing together 25 representatives spanning committees, coordinating panels, task forces, and national delegations.

The imperial Hofburg Palace in Vienna was the setting for a special award ceremony on 12 March – during Brain Awareness Week – to recognise the outstanding creative approach of Austrian school pupils to promoting brain health in the Brain Health School Challenge.

The EAN Education Committee received plenty of applications for the 2024 Research Fellowships and we are happy to announce and introduce the recipients below.

The European Brain Council released a Call to Action on Putting Brain Health on the Global Agenda, aimed at the United Nations and Member States, at the recent Brain Health & Research Day in New York.

Read the latest three reports on EAN Student Teaser Fellowships that took place in 2022. Find out how our future neurologists got on in their chosen departments.

The EAN Education Committee is happy to announce and introduce the recipients of the 2023 Student Teaser Fellowship.

In January 2022, Prof. Wolfgang Grisold, from Vienna, Austria, became president of the World Federation of Neurology. To help our readers become better acquainted with the new WFN leader, we invited him to take part in a short interview.

Alzheimer Europe has published a new edition of its Dementia in Europe policy magazine, in an electronic format.

The European Medicines Agency’s annual report 2019 is now available on the Agency’s website.

Aiming to improve the conditions of people living with neurological disorders, the European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA) will focus on three advocacy themes for 2020-2025: Access to treatment, services and support Stigma, isolation and discrimination and Patient empowerment, engagement… Continue Reading

Governmental Expert Group on Dementia holds second meeting The European Group of Governmental Experts on Dementia held its second meeting on 17 and 18 June 2019 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 20 European countries were represented at the meeting, in addition to representatives from the 2nd European Joint Action on Dementia (Act on Dementia/DEM2), the World Health Organization (WHO) and Alzheimer Europe.

The 2019 Congress of the Academy for Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology took place between April 11-12 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, organized by the Foundation of the Society for the Study of Neuroprotection and Neuroplasticity and its partners.

The Norwegian population is small, stable, and well organized. Despite having seen increasing urbanization and immigration in recent years, the population of 5.3 million inhabitants is remarkably stable. Specialist health services are close to 100 % publicly financed and equally available to all. All inhabitants have unique Personal Identification Numbers and can easily be identified across a broad range of mandatory and voluntary public registries. Seventeen central, mandatory health registries are being used for health analysis and statistics, quality improvement, research, administration and emergency preparedness. These include the Medical Birth Registry of Norway, Norwegian Cause of Death Registry, Norwegian Patient Registry and Norwegian Prescription Database.