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Monthly Archives
March 2015
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Forum
Valproate in the treatment of epilepsy in women and girls – pre-publication summary of Recommendations from a joint Task Force of ILAE-Commission on European Affairs* and European Academy of Neurology**
March 19, 2015by Torbjörn Tomson on behalf of the Joint Task Force* The Coordination Group for Mutual Recognition and Decentralised Procedures-Human (CMDh) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recently strengthened warnings on the use of valproate medicines in women and girls… Continue Reading -
Education corner
Attention all Residents & Fellows (or recently appointed specialists): what can ebrain do to help you?
March 10, 2015by Hannah Cock and Antonella Macerollo Neuropenews readers will already be aware of eBrain, an online educational platform free to all members of supporting organizations, including EAN, and also one of the recommended resources for the European Board of Neurology… Continue Reading -
Share your initiatives with us! The 2015 Brain Awareness week will take place from March 16 to 22. More on the Brain Awareness Week (BAW) can be found here: http://www.dana.org/baw/ Neuropenews would like to highlight your participation in this important… Continue Reading
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Executive Page
Thrombectomy treatment of stroke: time to celebrate and time to contemplate
March 1, 2015eatment of stroke has made tremendous progress during the past 3 decades. This is an excellent example how the introduction of new concepts and translational research has contributed to our field. The introduction of stroke units and thrombolysis with rtPa have been the main drivers of this outstanding development. But one patient group has always been left out of this huge progress. These were patients with large vessel occlusion, preferentially internal carotid, proximal media and combined media and anterior occlusions. -
Top 10 Articles 2012 from keywords: Neurology, Neurological Sciences, Ageing and Dementia, Cerebroascular diseases/ Stroke, Clinical Neurophysiology, Cognitive neurology/neuropsychology, Critical care, Epilepsy, Headache and Pain, Infections & AIDS, Motorneurone diseases, Movement Disorders, Multiple sclerosis and Related Disorders, Muscle and neuromuscular… Continue Reading
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Dr. Elena Moro, a young neurologist with multi-national and multi-continental training and experience, will be the new EDITOR-IN-CHIEF of Neuropenews. With the help and enthusiasm of Dr. Tim von Oertzen, the web-Editor, they will shortly propose a brand new web journal of our Academy, to the European Neurology community.
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Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): The EAN website is to become the primary source of information on European neurology. Can you briefly describe/illustrate your plans to achieve this? Tim von Oertzen (TvO): The website is an essential tool for EAN to communicate and interact with its members and with the public. To fulfill this role its users should easily find the information they are looking for within an intuitive design. We will provide information on the EAN, its programmes and initiatives as well as on neurology in Europe.
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Interviews
Interview with Sohini Chowdhury from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
March 1, 2015Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): The EAN – European Academy of Neurology is the platform by excellence for all European neurologists. Can you briefly outline the mission of The Michael J. Fox Foundation to the neurologists and Neuropenews readers? -
As in the previous year, Neuropenews asked EAN committee members, panel chairs, speakers, … which session one should not miss at the upcoming congress in Berlin, June 2015. Please find their answers below …
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Movement disorders are very common worldwide, knowing no race or ethnic background. Movement disorders are common cause of disability especially in alder people. The 11th module of ebrain, edited by Naheed Khan covers the full spectrum of movement disorders. There… Continue Reading
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Belief in progress is dauntless. Media keeps informing about inventions which, very soon for certain, will lead to victory over cancer or Alzheimer's disease. The literary set, some conservative politicians or church officials sometimes doubt the progress, their scepticism is often motivated ideologically and hardly resonates among doctors or scientists.
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by Didier Leys The “Société Française de Neurologie” (SFN) held its winter meeting in La Salpêtrière, Paris, on January 15th and 16th, 2015. For the first time the board of the SFN decided to invite another National Society of… Continue Reading
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It took decades until neurology in Germany recovered from the brain drain caused by the Nazi regime during the 1930ies and 1940ies (see previous chapters III and IV of this series). Initially the German Neurological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie, DGN) recovered only slowly until late in the last century when this development speeded up, coinciding with the re-unification of Germany.
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The first paper that I would like to point out to Neuropenews readers concerns a neurological syndrome that often I have personally disregarded, or linked to similar “foggy” presentations such as the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Serra J, Collado A, Solà R et al, have published in ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY, 12 february 2014, Vol 75, Issue 2, pages 196-208, a paper “Hyperexcitable C nociceptors in fibromyalgia” that initially escaped my attention (it was published one year ago) and that indicates how in fibromyalgia there is more than many neurologists (at least myself) previously thought.
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