Neurology Updates

Neurology Updates

Here you will find regular scientific news from our Scientific Panels. We cover all areas of neurology, including rare diseases. The most recent news are displayed below. You will find all news of different areas sorted into the subsections of the respective scientific panel. Enjoy reading!

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| Higher Cortical Functions  

This important study is the first to present neuroanatomical evidence for transneuronal damage to functional homologues of the attention  network in…

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| Headache  

On 21 March 2017, several activities including a meeting in the European Parliament were organized. In addition, the European Headache Alliance have…

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| Stroke  

In the setting of haemorrhagic stroke, presence of intraventricular haemorrhage is a hallmark of poor prognosis with case-fatality up to 60%.1,2 Data…

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| Rare Neurological Diseases  

On 28th February, the world celebrates the Rare Disease Day 2017, sponsored by Eurordis.

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| Palliative Care  

Over the past few years the Taskforce of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) on neurology has been working on the writing of a…

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| Stroke  

The results of previous randomized trials, especially INTERACT-2, have shown that early intensive blood pressure lowering in patients with spontaneous…

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| Neurosonology  

Lochner et al. reported on the diagnostic applicability of ultrasonography in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IH) or secondary intracranial…

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| Neurosonology  

Viski et al. reported on the effect of reading on blood flow changes in the posterior cerebral artery in early blind and sighted people using TCD.

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| Neurosonology  

Favaretto et al. explored in this study the diagnostic role of transcranial brain parenchyma sonography in detecting specific echogenic alterations of…

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| Neurosonology  

Rouco et al. present a new method that may improve the performance of previous approaches for the automatic detection of the common carotid artery…

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| Neurosonology  

Perren et al. compared in this study the diagnostic sensitivity of transcranial color-coded duplex (TCCD) sonography and the recently developed 3D…

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| Neurosonology  

Kargiotis et al. present their preliminary observations of consecutive ultrasound evaluations in 2 patients with acute encephalitis (presenting with…

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