"Lisbon 2018"

  Portugal has a long tradition in the study of behavioral disorders, dating back to the work of Egas Moniz and his attempt to improve some psychosis with psychosurgery. In the early 1970’s Antonio Damasio, who was taking his PhD… Continue Reading

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History Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is an autosomal dominant (AD) spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) initially described in descendants of immigrants from the Portuguese islands of the Azores. It was in 1972 that Kenneth K. Nakano and colleagues described the Machado family, with an AD, late onset, cerebellar ataxia with peripheral neuropathy. All family members were descendants from Guilherme Machado, who had migrated from São Miguel (Azores) to Massachusetts in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries.

Epilepsy Center, Neurocenter, Kuopio University Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland

Prof. Corino de Andrade graduated at Lisbon Medical School, Hospital of St Martha, in 1929. He began his practice at the main hospital in Lisbon (Hospital S. José) and kept visiting his Alma Mater with a serious commitment to practice neurology at the department of Egas Moniz, the only one in Portugal. This passion was soon rewarded with the residency in neurology.

Dear Prof. Cras, I congratulate you for your election as Chair of the UEMS Section of Neurology. David B. Vodušek (DBV):  It is felt that many European neurologists may not be fully aware of the role of UEMS in general, and the distinctions between SN UEMS and EAN, would you offer your explanation to the readers of the EAN Pages? Patrick Cras (PC): Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes, also called European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), was founded in 1958, shortly after the founding of the European Common Market.  Those of us who feel inspired by the European project will agree that professional standard setting and continuing professional development has an international dimension.  

João Cid dos Santos was a Portuguese surgeon (Lisbon 1907-1975) devoted to Vascular Surgery. After graduated at University of Lisbon - Faculty of Medicine in 1933 he moved to Strasbourg to practice vascular surgery with René Lerich.

Neurological diseases have a very different frequency. Neurological practice and brain research need to have this in mind. The global burden of disease study has shown that neurologic diseases are the leading cause group of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) of all medical disease groups in 2015 with 10.2% of global DALYs. Table 1 shows the age-standardized rates of DALYs, deaths and the prevalence of the different neurologic diseases.1 In this schematic rare neurological diseases are mostly covered within the category ‘other neurological diseases’. The prevalence cannot be estimated based on the available data. However, the number of existing rare neurological diseases is very large. The current website of the NIH lists 1244 neurologic rare diseases which is the largest number among all rare disease groups and covers approximately 60% of rare diseases.2 These more than 1200 diseases produce more than 0.9% of the neurological DALYs world-wide which seems at first glance to be relatively small.

by Prof. Victor Oliveira, University of Lisboa, Portugal – Member of the Local Organising Committee for the 4th EAN Congress in Lisbon, Portugal Egas Moniz (1874-1955) was a Portuguese neurologist whose name is associated to the invention of angiography and… Continue Reading

  The EAN Scientific Panel held its annual meeting on 25 June 2017 09:45 to 10:45 during the 3rd EAN Congress in Amsterdam. Chair of the meeting: Lueder Deecke, Management Group members present: Co-Chair Stefano Cappa, Pasquale Calabrese, Wolfgang Heide,… Continue Reading

  On the occasion of the 2017 Amsterdam conference the EAN Autonomic Nervous Disorders panel gave an overview of their activities and set future goals. After welcoming words by the panels chair Professor Max Hilz, the panel members reviewed the… Continue Reading

Registration for the 4th EAN Congress in Lisbon, Portugal, 16-19 June 2018, is now possible! If you are a member of EAN, you can save up to 200€ – benefit now from our reduced membership fees. Don’t forget to sign… Continue Reading