EAN News

On July 13-15, 2024, the African Academy of Neurology and the Senegalese Association of Neurology celebrated the 4th Conference of the African Academy of Neurology, which was held in Dakar, Senegal

The European Academy of Neurology is pleased to announce that our Assembly of Delegates elected several new EAN Board members at the EAN Congress 2024 in Helsinki.

Prof. Elena Moro officially took on the presidency of Europe’s largest neurology society on Tuesday, 2 July, 2024, the final day of the 10th Annual Congress of the European Academy of Neurology in Helsinki, Finland.

Our paper of the month is an observational cohort study exploring the link between sleep measures and AD pathology in 319 participants (mean ± SD age: 61.5 ± 5.4 years; 47% female) from the Rotterdam Study, a prospective population-based study conducted in the Netherlands.

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 July 2024.

EAN Communications Committee Chair, Matilde Leonardi, talks about the EAN's position in the global push for awareness and advocacy of neurological issues and our role in connecting members, stakeholders, and communities across Europe and beyond.

The EAN GPG is seeking a Patient Advocate: a strong communicator dedicated to representing patient voices and ensuring their needs and concerns are addressed.

Our paper of the month reports the result of a trial investigating the safety and the potential efficacy of intravenous treatment with acyl-ghrelin in improving neurological outcome in patients in a coma after cardiac arrest.

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 June 2024.

Following this year's EAN Congress, the EAN Board will appoint chairpersons to the EAN Education Committee and the EAN Programme Committee. We are calling for applications from colleagues who would be interested in taking on these important functions.

The European Academy of Neurology (EAN) hosted the latest European Brain Health Summit on 7 May, bringing together key international voices to raise awareness of brain health and provide an opportunity for dialogue and collaboration between stakeholders, this time under the title 'From managing neurological disorders to promoting Brain Health in Europe'.

EAN President, Paul Boon, reviews the recent Brain Health Summit - which saw the attendance of Queen Mathilde of the Belgians - as well as a host of other brain health related activity.

In our Paper of the Month for May, researchers traced the trajectory of Alzheimers biomarkers, for the first time employing a longitudinal design, with impressive, groundbreaking results.

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 May 2024.

The EAN Guideline Production Group (GPG) invites EAN Scientific Panel members, EAN individual members, and EAN Guideline Task Force members to join the forthcoming EAN Guideline Workshop on Friday, 28 June at 12:00 – 17:30 EEST.