We congratulate the winners of the EFNS Investigator Awards 2012!
The Prize consists of an Award certificate & €500,-
Federica Agosta, Milan, Italy: Functional network connectivity in the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neuroimaging and –sonology
Lidia di Vito, Bologna, Italy: Myoclonic epilepsy and psychomotor delay associated with a novel SLC2A1 gene mutation awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Epilepsy
Daniela Galimberti, Milan, Italy: Frequency of the chromosome 9 hexanucleotide repeat expansion in Italian patients with fronto-temporal lobar degeneration awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Dementia and Cognitive Neurology
Bence B. Gunda, Budapest, Hungary: New familial vasculopathy resembling COL4A1 spectrum disease awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Genetics and Metabolic disorders
Ellen Merete Hagen, Bergen, Norway: Postural tachycardia syndrome (PoTS) and 24-hours ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate monitoring awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on ANS
Anne Horn, Würzburg, Germany: Increased dopamine levels in HIV-infected patients: influence of genetic polymorphisms on the dopaminergic transmission awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Infectious diseases
Jon Infante, Santander, Spain: Transcranial sonography, DaT-SPECT and olfactory function at the premotor stage of LRRK2 G2019S-associated Parkinson’s disease awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Movement disorders
Poul Jennum, Glostrup, Denmark: Health, social and economic consequences of narcolepsy: a controlled national study evaluating the societal effect on patients and their partners awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Public Health
Evgenia Karantoni, Paris, France: Anti-NMDAr encephalitis in children and adolescents: a long-term follow-up in a French case series awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neuroimmunology
Elena Lebedeva, Yekaterinburg, Russia: Increased prevalence of migraine in patients with unruptured saccular intracranial aneurysms (SIA) awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Headache
Lars H. Markvardsen, Aarhus, Denmark: A randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial of the effect of subcutaneous immunoglobulin on muscular performance in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neuropathies
Matthias Mulazzani, Vienna, Austria: Vertigo and psychological distress awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neuro-ophthalmology/-otology
Hipolito Nzwalo, Faro, Portugal: Fatal outcome in acute Marchiafava-Bignami disease in relation to pure alcohol consumption awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Substance abuse and neurotoxicology
Celia Oreja-Guevara, Madrid, Spain: Natalizumab reduces MRI markers suggestive of irreversible tissue damage in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases
Hugo Pedder, Uppsala, Sweden: GABA-A channel subunit expression in human glioma correlates with tumour histology and clinical outcome awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neuro-oncology
Silvio Piffer, Verona, Italy: Myofibrillar myopathies: a clinical, morphological and genetic study of 21 patients awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Muscle disorders
Mara Turri, Verona, Italy: Intravenous immunoglobulin for post-polio syndrome: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on sleep disorders
Renske I. Wadman, Utrecht, The Netherlands: Dysfunction of the neuromuscular junction in patients with spinal muscular atrophy types 2 and 3 awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on ALS
Gabriele Woebker, Wuppertal, Germany: Measurement of intracranial pressure, tissue oxygen (ptiO2), cerebral blood flow and temperature in the porcine brain tissue with a single catheter awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neurotraumatology
Vildan Yayla, Istanbul, Turkey: Magnetic resonance angiography findings in ischemic cerebrovascular diseases awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Stroke
Best Poster Presentation:
Simon Holmgren, Stockholm, Sweden: Analysis of inflammatory cytokines in CSF in relation to behavioural and psychiatric symptoms in dementia (BPSD) in demented patients in the Session on Ageing and Dementia on Monday, September 10, 2012
Elzbieta Klimiec, Krakow, Poland: Characteristics of hand tremor in progressive supranuclear palsy and multiple system atrophy patients in the Session on Movement disorders on Monday, September 10, 2012
