WFN Press Releases

At the World Congress for Neurology in Kyoto, experts are discussing the growing significance of palliative medicine in neurological practice. Studies show that this form of care not only helps patients to cope better with their symptoms and problems but also with their family and caregivers.

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Lewy bodies are responsible for one in five dementia cases. Research is just starting to look at the side effects associated with these abnormal deposits of protein. At the World Congress of Neurology in Kyoto, Japanese researchers illustrated the effect of the disease on the gastrointestinal tract.

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In the run-up to the World Congress of Neurology in Kyoto the new “Neurology Atlas” was published today. Even though there has been progress in the availability of neurological care worldwide and great improvement is being made in diagnostic and therapeutic tools, appalling disparities in the availability of treatment do persist. This treatment gap remains to be closed, experts point out. The good news is that the important impact of brain health on global health is increasingly recognized by international organizations and political decision makers.

The Japanese City of Kyoto will host the XXIII World Congress of Neurology (WCN 2017), the world’s biggest and most important international neurology event.

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Continued dialogue with the WHO Department of Information, Evidence, and Research to reach the decision to move all cerebrovascular diseases in ICD-11 to the section of diseases of the nervous system.

The day will be jointly prepared and celebrated with the WSO. This topic underlines the importance of stroke and should alert towards prevention and introduce the advances in treatment. We hope, that many national societies will be able to join again this year.

The medical rationale for stroke being a disease of the brain is overwhelming.” This is the key message of an urgent appeal launched by leading neurology experts in The Lancet. The authors are making public their concern about the classification of stroke in the draft revision of the “International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems” (ICD) after an unexpected and uncoordinated change in the classification scheme made by WHO staff.

The Pakistan Society of Neurology was recently appointed for free access to the Online AAN-WFN Continuum Education Programme. AAN and WFN are pleased to invite all Neurologists working in Pakistan to make use of this Education Program.

After 18 years as Executive Director and Consultant Administrator, Keith Newton has left the World Federation of Neurology on 31 July 2016.

World Brain Day, 22 July 2016 devoted to „Brain health in an ageing population