Country of the Month

Country of the Month for March 2021 is Lithuania

December's Country of the Month is Albania

November´s country of the month is Netherlands

October's contribution to the Country of the Month: Serbia

Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (Kazakh: Қазақстан Республикасы), is located in the centre of the Eurasian continent.

Country of the month: Moldova

Estonia is a small country in Northeastern Europe, the northernmost of the three Baltic states.

The best starting point to characterize Austria is with history. Our small country is deeply rooted in the history of the Habsburg Empire, but at the same time Austria has been a spearhead in modernism of the 20th century, and it is one of the most developed social welfare states in today’s world.

France is a country of tradition and innovation: France was a pioneer country in Neurology since the 19th century, with seminal clinical and pathological description of many neurological diseases by Charcot (1825-1893) in Salpêtriere hospital in Paris and his colleagues, illustrated by the famous painting by Brouillet “a clinical lesson at the Salpêtriere”.

Latvia is a scenic country, situated on the shore of Baltic sea in Northern Europe, located between two other Baltic states: Estonia and Lithuania. The name Latvia comes from the ancient tribe called Latgalians who are one of four Indo-European Baltic ancestral tribes which inhabited the region within modern day Lativa. The country has a coastline of more than 500 km along the Baltic Sea, giving everybody the possibility to explore many white sand beaches all year round. More than 50% of the country is filled with precious “green gold” – forests – combined with gorgeous landscapes, rivers and lakes.

Ireland – Hibernia (“land of winter” according to the Romans) – sits as the last outpost of North-Western Europe before the vast Atlantic Ocean that separates us from North America. Anyone who has visited the Cliffs of Moher (Figure) on the West Coast of Ireland will appreciate the precipitous point at which Europe ends.

Iceland is a country of 360,000 inhabitants, who are mostly of Icelandic ethnic origin together with 11% of people, who are of eastern European ancestry. There are seven universities in Iceland. The University of Iceland has a faculty of medicine, from which around 48 physicians graduate each year. Medical education consists of seven years: three preclinical years, three clinical years and an internship year. Training mostly takes place in the University Hospital in Reykjavik but also in several local hospitals and primary care clinics outside the main hospital. For specialty training in neurology, physicians have to move abroad, and most go to Scandinavia, or to the United States.

Ukraine is the largest country entirely within Europe with the territory of 603,628 km2. The main part of the territory of Ukraine is located within the East European Plain (up to 95 % of area). There are 25 main administrative regions, and also cities with a special status (such as Kyiv, capital of the country), which are divided, in turn, into districts. The population of Ukraine is more than 42 million.

Armenia is located in the South Caucasus, bordered by Georgia from the north, Iran from the South, Azerbaijan from the north-east and the south-west and Turkey from the west. The Republic of Armenia occupies a territory of 29,800 square kilometres. The capital is Yerevan. According to the general census of 2011 the population of Armenia is 3,018,854, 1.1 million of whom live in Yerevan.

Please find below recent articles from Spanish authors that have been published in the European Journal of Neurology