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by Wolfgang Grisold   From September 21 – 26, 2013 the WCN 2013 took placein Vienna. This year’s biannual meeting of the WFN was a joint meeting with the Austrian Society of Neurology (OeGN) and the European Federation of Neurology… Continue Reading

EFNS Meetings during the World Congress of Neurology was last modified: September 24th, 2013 by Editor… Continue Reading

Please visit the EFNS-ENS booth (#13) during the exhibition hours (10h-17h) of the World Congress of Neurology, Vienna, September 22 – 25, 2013.

by Wolfgang Grisold This September the World Congress of Neurology (WCN) 2013 will take place in Vienna jointly with the EFNS and the Austrian Society of Neurology. And for the first time in the history of congresses of the World… Continue Reading

Under the theme of “Neurology in the Age of Globalisation”, the XXI World Congress of Neurology (WCN 2013) will provide neurologists from Europe and around the world an unparalleled opportunity to exchange knowledge and information. The congress will take place… Continue Reading

  by Vladimir Hachinski This article was first published in Neurology 2013; 80(24), June 11, 2013. The Congress theme acknowledges that science and increasingly medicine and neurology are becoming globalised. The best way to manage change is to shape it.… Continue Reading

by Michael Khalil Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a main area of interest for Austria’s neurologic community. One reason for this is the rather high prevalence of this disorder which in 2002 has been estimated to be around 100 per 100,000… Continue Reading

by Julia Ferrari Worldwide stroke is the second most common cause of death in developed countries. In Austria the incidence rate of stroke is 2.1 – 2.3 per thousand annually [1,2], implying that a stroke occurs every 26 minutes. Austria… Continue Reading

The EFNS Management Committee meets twice a year, once at our Annual Congress, and once in early March in our Vienna Head Office. We have just held our March 2013 meeting and had a busy agenda. Some highlights:

by Eduard Auff and Wolfgang Grisold Fostering quality neurology and brain health worldwide This year the World Congress of Neurology (WCN) will take place in Vienna from September 21-26. It is a great event for world neurology, Europe and Austria.… Continue Reading