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EAN Congress 2025 relocated to HELSINKI due to UN summit (dates remain 21-24 June)
September 20, 2024
Due to unforeseen developments, the 11th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology has been relocated and will now be held in Helsinki on June 21-24, 2025.
EAN co-hosting G7 side-event in Ancona, Italy, on 8 October
September 13, 2024
Upcoming Joint Sessions at Partner Societies’ Congresses
August 26, 2024
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Neurology is a young and rapidly expanding field. This has many consequences - and ideas about a possible centrifugal development of neurological specialities are among them. Two major factors are facilitating the separation of sub-disciplines from neurology.
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Interviews
Interview with Ann Little, President of the European Federation of Neurological Associations
October 1, 2015Elena Moro (EM): We would like to join the EFNA Board in congratulating you with your election as the President of EFNA. We look forward at collaborating with you! Could you share with us your plans for the EFNA? Ann Little (AL): In recent years, EFNA has worked with great dedication on establishing a new strategic direction focussed on the four pillars of Advocacy, Awareness, Empowerment and Engagement. This is laid out in our Strategic Plan 2015-2020 document ‘Stronger Connected’. -
Ebrain (www.ebrainJNC.com) is the largest and most comprehensive web-based training resource in clinical neurosciences, both for training and continuous professional development. In the field of spinal diseases, eBrain offers lots of information regarding different aspects of spinal cord problems. Spinal… Continue Reading
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Paper of the Month
Paper of the Month: Proteinopathies and prions: A common mechanism for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
October 1, 2015For October 2015, we have selected: M. Goedert. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease: The prion concept in relation to assembled Aβ, tau, and α-synuclein. Science 2015;349(6248):1255555. Doi: 10.1126/science.12555550. In this review of Michel Goedert, the pathophysiology of the two most frequent neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD), is unified in a common process that shares the prion-like spreading of abnormal protein assemblages inside the brain. -
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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I was fortunate to receive a 6-month Scientific Fellowship from the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) to spend one year of my neurology residency training programme at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences in Oxford (Head of Department: Prof… Continue Reading
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Which patients have taught you the most? Is there a case you’ve seen – recently or some time ago – which highlighted key diagnostic or management issues and really supported your training? If so, why not consider publishing it as… Continue Reading
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Report from Floriana Boghez from Romania visiting the Sleep Center, Civic Hospital in Lugano, Switzerland under the supervision of Dr Mauro Manconi I spent six very useful weeks in the Neurology and Neurophysiology Department of the Civic Hospital in Lugano,… Continue Reading
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According to the new rules, from now on there will be two panel membership categories: membership via European national neurological societies and individual panel membership. Members nominated via National society will be re-appointed every two years. Each EAN full, corresponding… Continue Reading
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Dear readers, In this issue, we invite you to read three articles which have been carefully chosen by our Scientific Panels: Higher cortical functions, Sleep-wake disorders, and Palliative care: Ossenkopele R, Pijnenburg Y, Perry DC, et al. The behavioural/dysexecutive variant… Continue Reading
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Dear readers, We are happy to inform you that, after a productive disucssion with our panel chairpersons, the Scientific Committee and the Board finalised the rules of the EAN Scientific Panel (SP): Tasks of the SPs Suggesting educational and congress… Continue Reading
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Dear readers, In order to ensure continuity and efficiency of the EAN Scientific Panels, it was decided that a small Management Group consisting of 3-6 members will be introduced for each of the Scientific Panels. The Management Group will be… Continue Reading
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Scientific Corner
EAN Guideline Production Group: Procedure for updating EAN guidelines
October 1, 2015EAN Guideline Production Group: Procedure for updating EAN guidelines The EAN Scientific Committee (SC) determines each year the need for updating guidelines. In addition, each Scientific Panel (SP) may decide to update a guideline at any moment, depending on the… Continue Reading -
At the first EAN Congress, held in Berlin in June 2015, more than 3000 participants attended the 25 Teaching Courses and 5 Hands-on courses: