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"Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness", Thomas Skordas. Elena Moro (EM): Can you briefly illustrate to the Neuropenews readers what are the FET – Future and Emerging Technologies – actions and which place do they take within the EC’s H2020 programme? Thomas Skordas (TS): FET – Future and Emerging Technologies – is part of the "Excellent Science" pillar of Horizon 2020. The other components of this pillar are the "European Research Council (ERC)", the "Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions" and the "Research infrastructures" actions. Altogether, these four components aim to reinforce, widen and extend the excellence of the Union's science base and ensure a supply of world-class research and talent pursuing to secure Europe's long term competitiveness and well-being.

Dear readers, Do not miss the chance to read articles which have been carefully chosen for this issue by our Scientific Panels Higher cortical functions, Movement disorders, Neuroimaging and Neuroepidemiology: Qin P, Wu X, Huang Z, et al. How are… Continue Reading

by Claudia Sommer and Theodor Landis The Teaching Course sub-Committee consists of the following members: Theodor Landis, Switzerland – Chairman Members: Anish Bahra, UK (responsible for interactive sessions); Gilles Edan, France (responsible for Spring School); Oleg Levin, Russia; Viktoria Papp,… 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

Dear readers, In this issue, we invite you to read three articles which have been carefully chosen by our Scientific Panels: Higher cortical functions, Sleep-wake disorders, and Palliative care: Ossenkopele R, Pijnenburg Y, Perry DC, et al. The behavioural/dysexecutive variant… Continue Reading

EAN Guideline Production Group: Procedure for updating EAN guidelines The EAN Scientific Committee (SC) determines each year the need for updating guidelines. In addition, each Scientific Panel (SP) may decide to update a guideline at any moment, depending on the… Continue Reading

In this issue of the Neuropenews, our Subspecialty Scientific Panel Sleep-wake disorders invites you to read an article on Alzheimer’s disease: “Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most frequent dementia. Sporadic AD is thought to be due, in part, to impaired… Continue Reading

Website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/education/courses/other/neurology/ This is an annual update course run by the Institute of Neurology Queen Square, London. The course is designed for consultants and senior trainees in neurology, and other neuroscience specialties, from the UK, Europe and worldwide, and aims… Continue Reading

by Delia Lenzi Power and collaborators have recently published in the Journal Nature Neuroscience a paper on the genetic link between creativity and psychiatric disorders such as bipolar disorder and schizofrenia. They found that polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and… Continue Reading

We congratulate the winner of the P.K. Thomas Award for the best paper on peripheral nerve disorders at the 1st EAN Congress in Berlin, June 20-23, 2015 Luise Appeltshauser, Würzburg, Germany
Auto-antibodies against contactin-1 in patients with inflammatory neuropathy The… Continue Reading

The members of the Scientific Committee (SC) at present are: Antonio Federico (Chair) Claudio Bassetti, Alexandre Bisdorff, Michael Brainin, Christian Enzinger, Maurizio Leone, Jera Kruja, Maurizio Leone, Celia Oreja-Guevar, Evzen Růžička, Anthony H.V. Schapira, Antonio Toscano

An initiaitive of the European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA) & Pain Alliance Europe (PAE) The meeting of EFNA and PAE took place on June 24, 2015 from 12.45 – 15.00h at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. Romanian MEP… Continue Reading

by Mohammad Wasay & Wolfgang Grisold The first World Brain Day was started by World Federation of Neurology in 2014 with the slogan “Our brains-Our future”. This global campaign was designed to promote awareness about brain and neurological diseases and… Continue Reading

During 20th and 23rd of June 2015, Berlin was the capital of European neurology. At the 1st Congress of European Academy of Neurology, young neurologists had a session specially organized for them by the European Association of Young Neurologists and… Continue Reading

In this issue of Neuropenews, we open a new space, the Scientific Corner, which will be reporting on issues related to area of scientific activity of the EAN and activities of the EAN Scientific Committee.