EAN News

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 March 2023.

MSIF’s application to add Multiple Sclerosis treatments to the WHO Essential Medicines List has the potential to put MS higher on the agenda of the WHO and individual countries.

Take our Congress Quiz and you could win free registration* for the highly anticipated 9th Annual Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, in Budapest, 1-4 July.

EAN Education Committee Chair, Irena Rektorová, gives an update on new projects, upcoming deadlines, and some exciting additions to existing educational programmes.

Our paper of the month presents the results of a prospective, double-blind, randomised, sham-controlled trial involving 16 centres and investigating the safety and efficacy of unilateral FUSA of the globus pallidus internus in patients with medication-refractory idiopathic PD.

The EAN Student Task Force is delighted to announce the return of the very popular ‘Why Neurology?’ essay competition this spring, before the 9th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, in Budapest, 1-4 July 2023

Are you a neurologist whose line of work was affected by the pandemic? We want to hear how COVID-19 has impacted your professional field.

The European Academy of Neurology is proud to announce the launch of the EAN CoCoCare, its very own guideline educational programme for 2023!

President of the Turkish Neurological Society, shares a statement on the tragic aftermath of the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria and honours the memory of the neurologists lost.

EAN President, Paul Boon, provides an update on some upcoming major EAN events (including EAN 2023) and freshly launched EAN projects.

We all know it. Falling in love produces a pounding heartbeat. Our symbol for love is the heart. But what happens when we experience emotions like romantic love or sexual desire is better explained by brain physiology than heartbeats.

We are introducing a special discounted fee for start-ups in the new Start-Up Corner area of our exhibition at EAN 2023. Find out more!

Registration is open for the 9th Annual Congress of the European Academy of Neurology, with reduced early fees available until 26 April

Our February Paper of the Month is a narrative review focusing on epidemiology, pathophysiology and treatment of secondary headache following SARS-COV-2 infection and vaccination, and on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on primary headache disorders.

Our paper of the month is a retrospective nationwide cohort study that was carried out to determine the clinical sequelae of long covid for a year after infection in patients with mild disease, and to evaluate its association with age, sex, SARS-CoV-2 variants, and vaccination status.