Research

Neural basis of impulse control behaviours in Parkinson’s disease

The Importance of having a Scientific Panel on Higher Cortical Functions in the EAN

Nodding syndrome proved to be a tauopathy

The March issue of the European Journal of Neurology is online!

Please find below articles from authors from the United Kingdom and co-authors that were published in the European Journal of Neurology.

For March 2019, we have selected: Burt RK Balabanov, MD Burman J, et al. Effect of nonmyeloablative haematopoietic stem cell transplantation vs continued disease-modifying therapy on disease progression in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. JAMA 2019;321(2):165-174. Stem cells are a highly topical research area in clinical neurology. Approaches vary from attempts at nerve regeneration to exploitation of immunological effects.

Recommendations of the International Society of Intraoperative Neurophysiology for intraoperative somatosensory evoked potentials

The electrodiagnosis of Guillain-Barré syndrome subtypes: Where do we stand?

Critical review of pure autonomic failure raises awareness for early signs of Parkinson’s disease, Lewy body dementia, and Multiple System Atrophy Pure autonomic failure (PAF) is both, a rare condition and a pathogenetic mystery, first described by Bradbury and Eggleston… Continue Reading

The February issue of the European Journal of Neurology is online!

Progress in understanding the genetics of epilepsies Epilepsies affect around 65 million people worldwide and are clinically a heterogeneous group of neurological disorders. Despite strong evidence for heritability, genome-wide association studies have had little success in identification of risk loci… Continue Reading

Postconcussion symptoms and health-related quality of life in patients with mild traumatic brain injury A subset of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) patients experience post-concussion symptoms. When a cluster of post-concussion symptoms persists for over three months, it is referred… Continue Reading

The current term of the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Neurology is ending. The Executive Board of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) herewith invites applications for the position of Editor-in-Chief which foresees a term of 5 years with the option of renewal. The new Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Neurology will assume responsibility in January 2020.

EAN is happy to inform of its collaboration with the project “European Partnership on Competencies for High Value COst COnscious CARE” (CoCoCare).

28 February 2019 is the twelfth international Rare Disease Day coordinated by EURORDIS. On and around this day hundreds of patient organisations from countries and regions all over the world will hold awareness-raising activities. The theme for Rare Disease Day 2019 is 'Bridging health and social care' focusing on bridging the gaps in the coordination between medical, social and support services in order to tackle the challenges that people living with a rare disease and their families around the world face every day.