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I had the unique chance of being one of the young neurologists chosen by the EFNS Education Committee to perform a 6-month educational program in the National Reference Centre for Neuromuscular Disease (Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Institut de Myologie, Paris, France) under the supervision of Professor Jean-Marc Léger.

On February 20, 2013 EFNS Admin, including EFNS Head Office and the EFNS Branch Offices Prague and Florence passed the recertification audit and received the certificate confirming the application and further development of an effective Quality Management System complying with the requirements of standard ISO 9001:2008.

It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the EFNS Fellowship 2013 (in alphabetical order) Scientific Fellowship: Francesca Antonelli from Italy was selected for her project DFDDNP-PET for in-vivo diagnosis of tauopathy in atypical and unclassified parkinsonism, which… Continue Reading

This year the EFNS project of individual visits to departments of neurological excellence is already running the 12th annual course. Having started in 2001 with the first 21 grantees, it gradually developed up to 82 grants per year in 2010.… Continue Reading

During my visit in Lisbon, Portugal, I worked both in the outpatient clinic and persued my own research project.
While in the outpatient clinic, movement disorders domains were discussed, such as Parkinson’s disease, atypical Parkinsonism, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), Neurogenetics… Continue Reading

I spent 6 weeks in the Neurocenter of the Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland. I had the opportunity to work in the out-patient department (1 week), in the hospital (3 weeks), in the EMG department (1 week), and in the intensive and… Continue Reading

Dear Prof. Jean Marc Leger, Dear Prof. Pavel Kalvach, Dear Ms Magda Dohnalova and all EFNS representatives,
I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank you for being awarded with EFNS D-D Programme 2012 and given the opportunity… Continue Reading

Through the support of the EFNS Scientific Fellowship I had the opportunity to work between June 2011 and May 2012 in Lille, France joining the Stroke group chaired by Prof. Didier Leys. During the fellowship my research focused on the occurrence of seizures after an intracerebral haemorrhage.

In order to evaluate the EFNS Fellowship and how it was helpful to the grantees, we decided to ask the Fellowship winners 2008 to 2012 about their opinion and experiences. Altogether we sent the questionnaire to 55 Fellowship winners (Educational… Continue Reading

All e-learning activities are free-of-charge for EFNS members registered to www.efns.org! Answer all questions correctly and you will receive one hour of CME. European Journal of Neurology
Every month one article is chosen for online learning. The following articles are… Continue Reading

We are happy to inform that a list of the Symposia, Teaching Courses, Focused Workshops and Special Sessions that are scheduled for the EFNS/ENS Joint Congress of Neurology in Istanbul, Turkey - 31 May - 3 June 2014 is online.

The Teaching Course Syllabi of the EFNS 2012 Congress in Stockholm can be found online on www.efns.org. Please log in and go to the registered user area. Under “e-education” you can read the syllabi of the TCs held at the… Continue Reading

From September until November 2012 a questionnaire on how our readers like Neuropenews was online.
Unfortunately we did not get much response, i.e. only 90 persons filled in the form. Still it was interesting to see the opinion of this… Continue Reading

Immunological features of late-onset myasthenia (LOMG) in comparison to early-onset myasthenia (EOMG).

All e-learning activities are free-of-charge for EFNS members registered to www.efns.org! Answer all questions correctly and you will receive one hour of CME. European Journal of Neurology
Every month one article is chosen for online learning. The following articles are… Continue Reading