EBC, alongside member organisations EPA, ECNP, GAMIAN-Europe and EUFAMI, has endorsed a new Joint Statement on the need to further invest in mental health research and the implementation of a European Partnership on mental health and wellbeing written by the Trimbos Institute. As written in the introduction of the statement, "mental ill health leads to huge [...]

A new report written in collaboration with EBC on the use of technologies for treating substance use disorders in the EU has been accepted for publication, and is now available online. The accepted manuscript version of the article published by S. Karger AG in Eur Addict Res 2017;23:177-181 DOI 10.1159/000478904 is available on:  www.karger.com/Article/FullText/478904 Background: [...]

On the 10th of July, the European Brain Council (EBC) hosted an extremely insightful roundtable on “Ensuring the safe prescription of medicines off-label in Europe: what role for the European Union?”. Over 30 leading healthcare and policy stakeholders shared insights on how to best address the existing challenges with off-label use. The event provided an [...]

This July, EBC released it's long-awaited Annual Report 2016. The printed booklet features a look back at an eventful 2016, recapping the highlights of the year, all projects & initiatives launched or continued, all advocacy and outreach of the year, collaboration with members and external partners as well as stakeholder highlights and other details about [...]

The High Level Group on maximising the impact of EU Research and Innovation Programmes (HLG), led by former WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy, presented the report LAB – FAB – APP Investing in the European Future we want on the 3rd of July. This document provides key recommendations for maximizing the impact of future EU research [...]

Mental ill health leads to huge personal and economic costs for European individuals, communities and economies. The European Commission, EU Member States, WHO, and OECD recognise the need to address this negative impact of mental ill health, but the lack of parity of esteem and disparity of funding between mental and physical health has been [...]

Over the last few days, 24-27 June, members of the EBC team attended the 3rd annual Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This year's congress brought together thousands of scientists and clinicians from all over Europe and the rest of the world. As EAN is one of EBC's members, we were pleased [...]