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Monthly Archives
April 2015
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Forum
“Stop vivisection” – Opposition to the European Citizen’s Initiative to ban animal research – EAN writes to the members of the European Parliament
April 24, 2015Together with many other scientific societies EAN opposes the “Stop vivisection” – Opposition to the European Citizen’s Initiative to ban animal research. This initiative was submitted in March 2015 and requests to abrogate the directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament… Continue Reading -
… is online now! Click here to read: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ene.2015.22.issue-5/issuetoc?campaign=woletoc The European Journal of Neurology is free of charge for EAN members! Login on www.eaneurology.org. If you are not sure about your membership, please contact headoffice@eaneurology.org Don’t miss the latest Invited… Continue Reading
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Executive PagePaper of the Month
The paper of the month: introducing a new feature of Neuropenews
April 1, 2015The wealth of scientific information is increasing and there are many ways to cope with this. Some of us are screening the most important journals for interesting papers as their way to keep up to date with the news in the field. Most of them give up after some time. Others restrict this to reading their specialty journals only or leave it to specific questions which they have to solve. -
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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Interviews
Interview with Chair of the EAN Teaching Course Sub-Committee: Theodor Landis
April 1, 2015Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As Chair of the Teaching Course Sub-Committee of the EAN, can you illustrate the role you give to EAN within the community of European neurologists? Theodor Landis (TL): EAN, the fusion of the two major European neurological societies, should become the home for neurology and neurology related specialities. It should combine the strongholds and particularities of both previous societies in a harmonious way and as such that it appeals to the broad majority of neurologists all over Europe. -
Interviews
Interview with President of the European Headache Federation: Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas
April 1, 2015Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As President of the EHF, can you illustrate the role you would like EAN to cover within the world of European Neurology? Dimos-Dimitrios Mitsikostas (DDM): The European Headache Federation represents all national Headache Societies in Europe and neighbouring nations. Since its foundation in 1992, EHF has sought to improve the life of those affected by headache in this territory. Headache is by far the commonest neurological symptom and primary headache disorders are the most frequent neurological conditions affecting million Europeans. -
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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The 5th London-Innsbruck Colloquium on Status Epilpticus will be in London on 9-11th April, and is a reminder to all of the importance of this condition.
eBrain has specific sessions both on convulsive status epilepticus, http://www.ebrainjnc.com/learning/course/view.php?id=203 and the less serious,… Continue Reading -
Forum
New EFNA Member of the European Parliament Interest Group on Brain, Mind and Pain
April 1, 2015FNA is the umbrella organisation for more than 20 pan-European disease-specific neurology patient organisations. It will work with Pain Alliance Europe to push neurological and chronic pain conditions higher up the European agenda. -
Brain HealthForum
Neurological News from Germany VII – The Growing Importance of Neurology and Brain Health
April 1, 2015As outlined in previous chapter VI of this series, the last three decades have seen a steadily growing number of neurologists (not only) in Germany. This continuing rise is certainly supported by the expanding diagnostic and therapeutic options for neurological diseases, but this alone wouldn’t suffice as an explanation. -
by Johann Sellner, Antonella Macerollo There are limited data available on the current visions of neurologists for health care and neurology. We aimed to garner ideas about current challenges and future development of health care among residents and junior neurologists… Continue Reading
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Paper of the Month
Paper of the month: Treating intracerebral hemorrhage in patients with anticoagulants
April 1, 2015We are very excited to start The Paper of the Month new heading with this Neuropenews issue of April. The main purpose of this new column is to provide our readers with some hints about the most relevant papers published over the last months in the neurology field. For March 2015 we have selected: Kuramatsu JB, Gerner ST, Schellinger PD, et al. Anticoagulant reversal, blood pressure levels, and anticoagulant resumption in patients with anticoagulation-related intracerebral hemorrhage. JAMA 2015;313:824-836. -
by Delia Lenzi Using an increasingly popular gene-editing toolkit called CRISPR, Gantz and Bier were able to overcome the classic rules of Mendelian genetics. This is an impressive example of gene drive: biasing inheritance to spread a gene rapidly through… Continue Reading
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I’m delighted to announce that for future congresses, starting with Berlin 2015, the EAN will award up to 5 certificates of ‘excellence in teaching’ to the best speakers in any of the congress educational activities (interactive workshops, teaching courses, hands… Continue Reading
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