Education corner

The new CME article February 2016: “Clinical dissection of childhood occipital epilepsy of Gastaut and prognostic implication” by A. Verrotti et. al. is online now!

by Panagiotis Zis The Autumn Meeting of the UEMS Section of Neurology – European Board of Neurology took place on the 21st of November 2015 in Valencia, Spain during the Spanish National Neurology Conference. The delegates of most National Neurological… Continue Reading

First of all, I want to thank EAN for unique opportunity to visit the Headache Clinic at the department of Neurology at the Evangelical Hospital in Unna, Germany.

In 2014 I was honored to be awarded with the scientific fellowship in the Department of neuromuscular disorders, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands, supervised by Prof. Hessel Franssen.

Report from Sebastian Schreglmann from Switzerland visiting the Sobell Deparment, National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (NINN), Queen Square, London under the supervision of Professor Kailash Bhatia As a recipient of the EAN Department to Department Programme the following lines… Continue Reading

This year the EAN Spring School will take place from May 12th to May 15th, 2016 at the Hotel Bezděz in Staré Splavy, Czech Republic.

The new CME article January 2016: “Intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke in the elderly: data from the Baden-Wuerttemberg stroke registry” is online now! Please browse to the e-learning section on the EAN Website (in the registered user area) and… Continue Reading

by Antonella Macerollo, P. Balicza, O. Györfi, L. Klingelhöfer, A. Macerollo, V. Papp, A. Sauerbier There has been the outstanding need to provide European junior colleagues with a platform for encouraging intercultural exchanges and support, and tackling upcoming challenges of… Continue Reading

Thanks to the support from the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) I was able to spend a research fellowship at the Stroke Research division, Institutes of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom), in the research group led by Professor Kennedy R. Lees.

I was fortunate to receive a Fellowship from European Academy of Neurology in order to spend 6 months of my education at the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre (JWMDRC), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. This education was conducted in cooperation with the departments of neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust.

Report from Maria Paola Cabboi from Italy visiting the Laboratory of Histology of the Neurology Clinic, University of Würzburg, Germany under the supervision of Professor Claudia Sommer I attended the Laboratory of Histology of the Neurology Clinic of the University… Continue Reading

It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the Research Fellowship 2016 (in alphabetical order):

by Martin Rakusa and Ulf Kallweit Sleep disorders are an area, where doctors of different specialities meet. However, they are also that part of neurology, which is often overlooked. To strengthen connection between young neurologists and sleep specialists, Young European… Continue Reading

by Erich Schmutzhard and Eveline Sipido The 7th RTC took place in Khartoum, Sudan from 15 to 17 October 2015 and was hosted by the University of Khartoum. The RTC, organised by the EAN – European Academy of Neurology, was… Continue Reading

Report from Shabnam Khalilova from Azerbaijan visiting the Department of Neurology at the Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway under the supervision of Professor Ole Björn Tysnes It was my big dream to visit a European hospital and to observe the… Continue Reading