Present academic and clinical positions: Professor of Clinical Neurology and Head, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford; Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Oxford, University Hospitals Trust
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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Forum: Science from a Tweet: Alien life is here, no need to look anymore for mysterious galaxies!
by Delia Lenzi Here we are, researchers have announced the creation of a living cell that has two ‘foreign’ DNA building blocks in its genome. We can now start reading a new chapter of science: from the creation of microbes… Continue Reading -
by Franz Gerstenbrand
After the Second World War there was a collapse in neurology in Europe. The war divided the continent in two parts, in a Western influenced and in a Communistic part. Austria in the middle was a neutral… Continue Reading -
by Wolf-Dieter Heiss
I attended as a participant several of the early EFNS regional meetings and congresses: the first EFNS regional meeting 1993 in Berlin – a small event with 1000 participants, the 2nd EFNS Congress in Rome 1996 where… Continue Reading -
Top 10 Articles versus Science Avalanche & Science from a Tweet
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The Editors have – together with the Scientific Committee – decided that new EFNS guideline papers will be presented in the Forum of NEUROPENEWS. In the May issue of the European Journal of Neurology the new EFNS/ENS Guidelines for the… Continue Reading
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Dr Raad Shakir was elected WFN President at the Council of Delegates during the World Congress of Neurology in Vienna on 22 September 2013. His 4-year term of office began on 1st January 2014
The World Federation of Neurology was… Continue Reading -
by Dursun Kırbaş
Neurological sciences has taken its independent form during the last quarter of the 20th century. In the beginning of the 20th century, Neurological sciences have been a part of Internal Medicine, then have developed as the… Continue Reading -
by Eberhard Deisenhammer
A long living institution or society needs an archive, especially if the officers of such a society, out of democratic reasons, turn over rapidly (e.g. members of the management committee can only be elected twice for a… Continue Reading -
A new era of neurology in Europe will start soon. In order to remember those historical moments that were relevant for EFNS and ENS and finally led to the foundation of EAN, the editors asked senior European neurologists to tell… Continue Reading
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The first paper that I would like to point out to our readers is in a way connected with the paper on the NEW CHOLESTEROL GUIDELINE (Pencina MJ et al; N Engl J Med, March 19,2014) presented in the Neuropenews April issue.
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Forum: Science from a Tweet: A “scary” discovery: manipulating memories through epigenetic priming of neuroplasticity-related genes
by Delia Lenzi In a study using a mouse model of acquired fear memories, Li-Huei Tsai and collaborators modified the mouse epigenome, using a drug that inhibits the enzymes histone deacetylases (HDACs). This drug switches off genes by removing… Continue Reading -
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Neurological News from Turkey – the land of EFNS/ENS 2014: A short story of pediatric neurology in the world and in Turkey
by Zuhal Yapici
The story of neurology dates back to ancient times, perhaps as early as the time when Egyptians used papyrus. It was on this writing material that Egyptians described unconsciousness, quadriparesis and hemiparesis. This is known as the… Continue Reading -
by Turgay Dalkara
Basic and clinical neuroscience post-graduate programs are run by the Neurological or Health Sciences Institutes in Turkish universities. The first programs were started in 1986 at the Institute of Neurological Sciences and Psychiatry, Hacettepe University, Ankara, which… Continue Reading -
The Editors have – together with the Scientific Committee – decided that new EFNS consensus papers will be presented in the Forum of NEUROPENEWS. The new EFNS/ENS consensus on the diagnosis and management of chronic ataxias in adulthood is published… Continue Reading