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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| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

New-onset seizures in the context of SARS-CoV-2 infection

This neurology update summarises additional case reports on seizures and status epilepticus associated with COVID-19 in patients without a history of…

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Created by Dr. Alexandra Balatskaya (National Medical and Surgical Center named after N.I. Pirogov, Moscow, Russia) and Ronan McGinty
| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

Epilepsy care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Telemedicine can help to deliver epilepsy care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Careful planning is needed to protect patients and healthcare workers…

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Created by Bruna NUCERA (Franz Tappeiner Hospital, Merano, Italy) and Ronan McGinty
| Neurorehabilitation  

Disability through COVID-19 pandemic: Neurorehabilitation cannot wait

Why we need neurorehabiliation now more than ever, and how to deal with this.

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Created by Letizia Leocani, Karin Diserens, Marcello Moccia, and Carlo Caltagirone
| Palliative Care  

Palliative care in neurology

An e book has just been published by Frontiers Research Topics entitled” Palliative care in neurology” - Oliver D, de Visser M and Voltz R (2020)…

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Created by Professor David Oliver, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, Management Group member of Palliative Care Specialty Panel.
| Stroke  

DIRECT-MT: Should stroke patients selected for mechanical thrombectomy also receive intravenous thrombolysis?

The first randomized controlled trial investigating treatment with thrombolysis before mechanical thrombectomy was recently published.

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Created by Dr. Simon Fandler-Höfler Medical University of Graz, Department of Neurology
| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

Acute symptomatic seizures and SARS-CoV-2 encephalitis in COVID-19

Acute symptomatic seizures have been reported with SARS-CoV-2-positive meningoencephalitis but, overall, seizures seem uncommon with SARS-CoV-2…

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Created by Guillermo Delgado-García (Instituto Nacional de Neurología y Neurocirugía, México) and Ronan McGinty
| COVID-19 | Neuroscience/ Translational neurology  

COVID Breaking news: CNS injury biomarkers elevated in COVID patients

Kanberg et al., 2020: Neurochemical evidence of astrocytic and neuronal injury commonly found in COVID-19.

In this paper, the authors investigated…

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Created by Magda Mroczek on behalf of the EAN Neuroscience/Translational Neurology Panel
| Epilepsy  

New randomised control trial evidence for treatment of status epilepticus

Status epilepticus (SE) remains life thereatening condition with limited therepautic options. Benzodiazepine-refractory, or established, SE is thought…

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Created by Prof. Konrad Rejdak; Department of Neurology; Medical University of Lublin, Poland
| Palliative Care  

Palliative Care Specialty Panel

A new guideline on the palliative care for people with severe multiple sclerosis has been produced by EAN, in collaboration with the European…

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Created by Professor David Oliver, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK Management Group member of Palliative Care Specialty Panel.
| Epilepsy  

Adjunctive cenobamate for uncontrolled focal epilepsy in adults: phase II trial results

A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled phase II study of adjunctive cenobamate in adults with uncontrolled focal epilepsy showed high rates of…

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Created by Ronan N McGinty (Epilepsy Clinical Fellow, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford University)
| COVID-19 | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Rare Neurological Diseases in the COVID-19 era: Suggestions for information to patients and caregivers

Rare neurological diseases are usually hereditary chronic disorders, affecting the central, peripheral nervous system and skeletal muscle, with…

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Created by Antonio FEDERICO, on behalf of the Managing Committee Members (M. De Visser, G. Plazzi, A. Arsovska, K. Bhatia, JM Burgunder, A. Toscano)
| COVID-19 | Epilepsy  

Caring for epilepsy patients in the face of a pandemic

This neurology update summarises key points on caring for people with epilepsy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Created by Ayse Deniz ELMALI (Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Clinical Neurophysiology; Istanbul, TURKEY) and Ronan McGinty