"congress 2020 highlight"

On 21 June 2021, the virtual general assembly of the EAN’s Resident and Research Fellow Section (RRFS) took place during the 7th annual congress. The assembly received broad participation from RRFS members who were interested in gaining insight into the annual report as well as the new Treasurer elections.

I am happy to be writing to you today about our EAN 2021 Virtual Congress, which was a great positive in what continues to be a challenging time.

Here are the news from the Coma and Disorders of Consciousness panel for May and June, including feedback from the Virtual EAN Congress, new diagnostic and prognostic tools, personalized pain assessment methods and epidemiological data on dysphagia.

On the last day of the congress, the EAN Scientific Panel of dementia and cognitive disorders organized a symposium with the aim to examine the neuropathological features of non-Alzheimer pathology in the elderly

This interesting session covering the updates on acute stroke treatments started with a lecture by Dr Sandset from Norway. She discussed the last evidence for on- and off-label treatment in intravenous thrombolysis, and started her lecture reminding that all evidence indicate that time is critical in the treatment of stroke. First, the results of the recent WAKE UP trial have been discussed, in which it was demonstrated that the treatment with intravenous alteplase was associated with a favorable outcome in patients with stroke with an unknown time of onset in the presence of MRI features suggesting recent cerebral infarction.

COVID-19 has swept across Europe and the world since the turn of the year, and resulted in this highly topical session being added to the virtual Congress programme 2020, as a further response to the pandemic. Reflecting the common challenges we all face, and the importance of international cooperation, this was a joint EAN/AAN session, chaired by Professor Claudio Bassetti and Professor James Stevens, the Presidents of our two Associations.

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is in some ways distinct from other parts of the nervous system: ANS function cannot be easily measured, only some ANS parts are accessible to imaging. Moreover, working in the field of ANS requires a multidisciplinary approach to clinical problems and often involves other specialities such as cardiology, gastroenterology, dermatology, and urology.

Find out which sessions not to miss at EAN 2020 in Paris

As in the previous years, EANpages asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, and invited speakers ‘which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Paris 2020. Please find their answers below!

This year marks a special milestone for both the EAN and the RRFS: our 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion we have planned many exciting events alongside our classic RRFS activities at the EAN congress.

EAN President Paul Boon on the new all-time abstract submission record set for EAN 2024, and news of major recent and upcoming events.

Originally planned for 2020, but postponed due to the pandemic, the Spanish EAN-Day was finally held in November 2022, in Seville, the future venue of the EAN 2025 congress.

This very interesting Special Session in cooperation with the European Psychiatric Association covered recent progress made in Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia, including evolving disease definitions, treatment, and prevention.

This very interesting Topical Symposium provided a comprehensive summary of myasthenia gravis, including the clinical presentation, diagnostics, and well-established treatment approaches.