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By Klemens Fheodoroff Neurorehabilitation has a long tradition in Austria. Already in 1951 the first European rehabilitation centre for spinal cord injury patients opened in Austria. In 1956 a Polio rehabilitation centre for children opened in Hermagor, Carinthia. In 1968… Continue Reading

The 5th RTC in Sub-Saharan Africa returned to Dakar, Senegal and was hosted by Prof. A. Gallo-Diop at the Cheikh Anta Diop University.

Titulaer MJ, Soffietti R, Dalmau J, Gilhus NE, Giometto B, Graus F, Grisold W, Honnorat J, Sillevis Smitt PAE, Tanasescu R, Vedeler CA, Voltz R, Verschuuren JJGM
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY Volume: 18 Issue: 1 Pages: 19-e3 Published: January 2011… Continue Reading

by Gian Luigi Lenzi The first year, NEUROPENEWS, published every month the abstract of one of the scientific publications from the year 2009 that received the largest number of quotations during 2011. This interval of at least a year between… Continue Reading

by Delia Lenzi This month a tweet provided me with a very interesting article (and discussion) from Ed Yong, an award-winning British science writer, on the reliability of results in neuroscience papers. He took his inspiration from a paper published… 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.

The ebrain e-learning programme continues to expand and improve the variety and quality of its educational features and functionality. As a Not-for-Profit initiative, ebrain is brought to you by the Joint Neurosciences Council, the European Federation of Neurological Societies and… Continue Reading

The Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and the University Medical Centre of Lausanne (CHUV) invite applications for the position of Full Professor
Head of Neurology Service
within the Department of Clinical Neurosciences The Department… Continue Reading

The Editors have – together with the Scientific Committee – decided that new EFNS review papers will be presented in the Forum of NEUROPENEWS. The new EFNS review on the role of muscle biopsy in the investigation of myalgia on… Continue Reading

Top articles 2011 1 = Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 revisions to the McDonald criteria Polman, CH.; Reingold, SC; Banwell, B; et al.
ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY Volume: 69 Issue: 2 Pages: 292-302 Published: FEB 2011 Times Cited: 250 (from… Continue Reading

by Gian Luigi Lenzi Not many weeks ago, here in Rome, a particular “retirement” made (and is still making) a lot of rumours and consequences. Away from this HOLY fact and down to my academic perspective I considered my own… Continue Reading

We are here reporting the ten most quoted neurological papers published in the years 2010 and 2011, updated on March 25, 2013. Top Articles 2011 1 = Diagnostic criteria for multiple sclerosis: 2010 revisions to the McDonald criteria Polman, CH.;… Continue Reading

We are here reporting the ten most quoted neurological papers published in the years 2010 and 2011, updated on February 25, 2013. Top Articles 2010 1 = HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders persist in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy: CHARTER Study… Continue Reading

Rossetti, AO; Oddo, M; Logroscino, G; et al.
ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY Volume: 67 Issue: 3 Pages: 301-307 Published: March 2010 Abstract
Objective: Current American Academy of Neurology (AAN) guidelines for outcome prediction in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest (CA) have… Continue Reading

by Raja Sawaya and S. Hammoud Abstract: We report another case of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome following Bevacizumab therapy for metastatic ovarian cancer. The prominent features of this report are the extension of the MRI changes to the anterior hemispheres… Continue Reading