EAN News

Our Paper of the Month for October 2023 is a multicentre, prospective, randomised clinical trial investigating whether transdermal nicotine may have a disease-modifying effect in early, therapy-naïve Parkinson's disease.

Each month the EANpages editorial team reviews the scientific press for recently published papers of outstanding interest to neurologists. Here we present our selection for October 2023.

EAN President, Prof. Paul Boon, and Past President, Prof. Claudio Bassetti took part in the Brain Health & Research Day at the Science Summit as part of the 78th United Nations General Assembly on 18 September.

The Board of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) would like to express our deepest sympathy on behalf of all EAN members to those affected by the recent earthquake in Morocco.

The EAN is pleased to announce the creation of a new Coordinating Panel on Functional Neurological Disorders. All EAN Individual Members with an interest in this field are encouraged to apply!

We want you to be the first to know that from January 1, 2024 we will be fully open access, with new articles free to read and share.

EAN Scientific Committee Chair, Thomas Berger on the forthcoming Mangement Group elections, new guidelines, and the EAN's readiness to support EU Horizon applications.

Our paper of the month presents the results of a randomised trial assessing AXER-204, a soluble decoy fragment of NgR1 able to block the action of three inhibitors of the axonal growth in individuals with chronic traumatic cervical SCI.

Each month the EANpages editorial team reviews the scientific press for recently published papers of outstanding interest to neurologists. Here we present our selection for September 2023.

The EAN is looking for a candidate who will provide support to the EAN Guideline Production Group and Guideline Taskforces as a Junior Methodologist.

It is our pleasure to announce that a joint session between the European Sleep Research Society and the European Academy of Neurology will be held during the virtual ESRS eSLEEP Congress 2023, on 4-6 October.

Report on the EAN Regional Teaching Day of the Estonian Ludvig Puusepp Society of Neurologists and Neurosurgeons, held on 2 June, adjacent to the society's annual congress.

EAN President Paul Boon and ESNR President Tarek Yousry are pleased to announce that a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the EAN and ESNR.

Make the most of your research by publishing in the official EAN journal, with double-digit annual growth in submissions and readership.

In July, the World Health Organization (WHO) published the Intersectoral global action plan on epilepsy and other neurological disorders (IGAP) in all six UN languages.