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Call for Applications: e-Learning Platform Editor-in-Chief
The European Academy of Neurology is looking for an Editor-in-Chief for their future e-Learning platform.
We are offering an open forum for neurological agenda arising from daily practice of neurology, educating (or receiving education) in neurology, research in neurology, working or clashing with other specialities, confrontations with bureaucracies…
We invite you to either contribute your own observation, commentary or story, or else suggest a particular hot topic, which you think should be elaborated further.
We shall invite members of the EAN Committees, Scientist panels, Sub-committees, particularly chairpersons, but also other leading neurologist across Europe to give their opinion.
Please send your contribution to newsletter@eaneurology.org.
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Top ArticlesForumNeurological News from Denmark VI – the land of the 2nd EAN congress 2016: Pain Research in Denmark from a neurological perspective
Pain - the unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with tissue damage - is usually not considered to be a neurological sub-disciplines like for example cerebrovascular diseases, demyelinating disorders, neururomuscular diseases, movement disorders, epilepsy, headache and clinical neurophysiology. -
ForumNeurological News from Denmark V – the land of the 2nd EAN congress 2016: Clinical Dementia Research in Denmark
Since the establishments of the first multidisciplinary memory clinics, based in neurology in Denmark more than 20 years ago, neurologists have taken increasing interest in diagnostic evaluation and follow-up of patients with dementia. -
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Updated recommendations to minimise the risk of the rare brain infection PML with Tysabri – Comment to EMA recommendation
After more than a decade from the natalizumab approval, most MS specialists consider this biological therapy as one of the most efficient drugs that we have nowadays to treat relapsing-remitting MS patients. However, the problem we have to face when we start to use natalizumab is the risk of the occurrence of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in some patients. -
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Neurological News from Denmark IV – the land of the 2nd EAN congress 2016: Research in multiple sclerosis in Denmark.
Denmark has a 100-year history of research in multiple sclerosis (MS), but as everywhere, the number of published studies has grown almost exponentially during the last two decades. -
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Neurological News from Denmark III – the land of the 2nd EAN congress 2016: Cerebral Blood Flow Research – Danish Contributions throughout a Century
Nearly a century ago – in 1920 – the renowned Danish physiologist August Krogh (1874-1949) received the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine for his work on the anatomy and physiology of the capillaries (1). -
Prof. G. Deuschl, President of the EAN and Prof. K. Lees President of ESO are pleased to announce that EAN has joined with ESO to promote optimal management of stroke in Europe. EAN and ESO are the leading societies for neurologists and stroke specialists, respectively, in Europe.
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Neurological News from Denmark II – the land of the 2nd EAN congress 2016: Development of modern EMG – the legacy of Fritz Buchthal
Electromyography (EMG) is the use of electrical signals from voluntary muscle to diagnose weakness as being due to nerve or muscle disease or disorders of the central nervous system. At EMG the potentials are recorded from muscle at rest, during weak effort and during maximal voluntary effort. -
by Delia Lenzi Researchers working with gene-editing techniques (CRISPR) have managed to ensure that an engineered mosquito would pass on its new Plasmodium falciparum resistance genes to nearly all of its offspring— and note, not just half, as would normally… Continue Reading
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Neurological News from Denmark I – the land of the 2nd EAN congress 2016: Danish Headache Research
For almost 100 years there have been Danish neurologists with a dedicated interest in migraine and other headache disorders. 50 years ago the champion was Dr. Dalsgaard-Nielsen and my mentor Erik Skinhøj got his interest in migraine during his clinical training with Dalsgaard-Nielsen. -
by Delia Lenzi It is well known in the scientific community that the connectomes will in the near future deeply influence our vision of how the brain works. In this very comprehensive article, published in Nature early this month, Amber… Continue Reading
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EAN unites and supports neurologists across the whole of Europe and aims at strengthening collaboration between clinical neurology and related scientific societies. We are delighted to hereby announce that EAN and the European Stroke Organisation have signed a letter of… Continue Reading
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by Delia Lenzi It is called follistatin-like 1 (FSTL1) and in animal models promotes cardiac muscle regeneration. This incredible result has been obtained by a team coordinated by Pilar Ruiz Lozano and recently published in Nature. The application of the… Continue Reading
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by Delia Lenzi A very interesting article by Joseph LeDoux (Center for Neural Science at NYU) explains why amygdala is not the centre of fear. He then focuses on the well known problem in neuroscience that is speculative interpretation of… Continue Reading
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Following invitation by Alzheimer Europe, Professor Günther Deuschl, EAN President, and the EAN Board accepted to sign the Alzheimer Europe Glasgow Declaration. The “Glasgow Declaration” calls for the creation of a European Dementia Strategy and national strategies in every country… Continue Reading
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