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Report from Maria Paola Cabboi from Italy visiting the Laboratory of Histology of the Neurology Clinic, University of Würzburg, Germany under the supervision of Professor Claudia Sommer I attended the Laboratory of Histology of the Neurology Clinic of the University… Continue Reading

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

In this issue of the Neuropenews, our Subspecialty Scientific Panel Sleep-wake disorders invites you to read an article on Alzheimer’s disease: “Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most frequent dementia. Sporadic AD is thought to be due, in part, to impaired… Continue Reading

A new initiative, offering international high-level hands-on courses in neuroscience, will radically change the European scene for higher education in brain research. Starting in 2015, the CAJAL Advanced Neuroscience Training Programme offers an annual programme of 5-7 training courses that… Continue Reading

Hospital visit Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité, Berlin, Germany, June 22, 2015 by Anna Sauerbier, Peter Balicza, Antonella Macerollo on behalf of the European Association of Young Neurologists and Trainees (EAYNT) The hospital visit followed by a get-together during the first… Continue Reading

The 1st Congress of the EAN includes the following networking programme and special sessions: Friday, June 19th, 2015: EBN Examination.
The UEMS EBN examination will be held one day prior to the congress at CityCube Berlin. The examination consists of… Continue Reading

Neuropenews (NN) has as one of its constant features a Section, named “TOP 10”, with the list of the 10 most cited papers in the neurological literature over the preceding two (full) years, i.e. for the NN 2014 Issues, the publication years 2012 and 2013.

The Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine for 2014 has been awarded to three neuroscientists; John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser.  They have received the prize for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. May-Britt and Edvard Moser is a young, married couple from Trondheim, Norway, that during the last decade has published a series of Science and Nature papers on the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex of the brain. They show how the brain creates a map of the space surrounding us and how we can navigate through a complex environment by using these cells.

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

It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the Fellowship 2014 (in alphabetical order):

Neuroanatomy for psychiatry, neurology and neuroscience Overview
• Focuses on the limbic lobe, hippocampus, amygdala, prefrontal cortex and ‘limbic’ loops of the basal ganglia
• Includes the basal forebrain / substantia innominata and diffuse neurochemical systems
• Emphasises core limbic… Continue Reading

Epilepsies are among the most common brain diseases of all. Epileptic seizures caused by a “short-circuit” of the brain affect or will affect 3.5% of the population at least once in life. Experts at the Congress of the European Neurological… Continue Reading