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Dear readers, As in 2015, our Scientific Panels are back with their article recommendations! In this issue, the Autonomic nervous system disorders , Higher cortical functions, Movement disorders, Neuroepidemiology & Sleep-wake disorders Scientific Panels invite you to read the following… Continue Reading

Report from Floriana Boghez from Romania visiting the Sleep Center, Civic Hospital in Lugano, Switzerland under the supervision of Dr Mauro Manconi I spent six very useful weeks in the Neurology and Neurophysiology Department of the Civic Hospital in Lugano,… Continue Reading

It was the second time our Department in Lviv supervised a Regional Teaching Course, funded by the EAN. The RTC took place from 28-30 May, 2015. First, our organising committee would like to express their appreciation for the great help… Continue Reading

by Steven Lewis and Wolfgang Grisold Neurological education is one of the main aims of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN). In addition to the biannual World Congress of Neurology, teaching courses, and publications such as the Journal of the… Continue Reading

In the past year, the EFNS TEC has continued working with the same leadership.

This proposal aims at developing an EAN Newsletter (EANN) including society as well as scientific information. No name is suggested at this point for this publication, and the future EAN Newsletter is referred to as EANN. We propose that the main frame of the EAN Newsletter will be already prepared in June 2014 for the 2nd semester of the year, in order to give to the new President and new Board plenty of time to decide whatever they want without the risk of discontinuation of the newsletter.

In the past year, the EFNS TEC has continued working with the same leader- and membership. The Committee consists of the following members:

by Gunhild Waldemar and Eveline Sipido   I. Liaison Committee Revised Mandate Following the decision to form a joint EFNS-ENS Liaison Committee the mandate for the LC has been revised, and the list of LC members now also include ENS… Continue Reading

Do you shake hands with your patients? I think you should, usually. As a junior doctor I was impressed by the example of consultants who greeted their patients by shaking hands and adopted this as a life-long practice. I would not claim that shaking hands is diagnostically useful: the detection of extrapyramidal rigidity or myotonia is more likely to be made from special tests of tone than from the initial handshake.

by Ivan Iniesta INTRODUCTION
In 2011 the widely acclaimed Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer (b. Stockholm, 1931) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality”(2). This article celebrates the… Continue Reading

by Alexandre Bisdorff The European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS: Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes) is a professional European organization of doctors (except general practitioners).
The UEMS was founded in 1958 and is constituted by the national medical associations of… Continue Reading