dementia

As in the previous year, EANpages asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, and invited speakers  which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Amsterdam 2017. Please find their answers below!

It is a dream of neurologists to cure degenerative diseases. The big brothers, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease have always been a huge burden of the population but are now, in the millennium of increasing population age becoming a scourge of humanity. While everybody is acknowledging this, both PD (1) and AD (2) communities of clinician researchers and basic researchers are preparing to attack the problem fundamentally frequently unnoticed by the general neurology community.

For October 2016 we have selected: Sevigny J, Chiao P, Bussiere T, et al. The antibody aducanumab reduces Aβ plaques in Alzheimer’s disease. Nature 2016;537:50-56. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most frequent neurodegenerative disorder. It is also extremely disabling with severe impact of the quality of life of patients and caregivers. The main pathological process is related to the toxic deposition of amyloid-β plaques and neurofibrillary tangles. No effective treatment is currently available to slow down the disease progression.

EANpages has the honor and the pleasure to introduce this virtual Round Table, composed by some members of the EAN Scientific Panel on Dementia and Cognitive Disorders, who are discussing the Paper of the Month, in addition to the comments of the Presidential Page. We thank the Panel for their enthusiastic participation and we invite all EAN members to participate with sending their comments.

Plenary Symposium 2
Neuroimaging of dementia
Hall A, Mon, 2016-05-30, 10.30-12.30 Chairpersons:
Reinhold Schmidt, Graz, Austria.
Massimo Filippi, Milano, Italy. Imaging of cerebral small vessel disease
Reinhold Schmidt, Graz, Austria. Imaging of Alzheimer’s disease
Philip Scheltens, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Imaging… Continue Reading

This networking event was attended by about 60 people, mostly women from different countries but also by several men. It was a very inspiring session, in which three successful women shared their professional and personal experience as neurologists. Prof. N.… Continue Reading

Dear Readers, We invite you to read the following article recommendations, prepared for you by our Scientific Panels: Dementia and cognitive disorders, Higher cortical functions, Infectious diseases, Movement disorders, Palliative care. Winblad B, Amouyel P, Andrieu S, et al. Defeating… Continue Reading

Since the establishments of the first multidisciplinary memory clinics, based in neurology in Denmark more than 20 years ago, neurologists have taken increasing interest in diagnostic evaluation and follow-up of patients with dementia.