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23 12-2025

Portuguese Brain Council: Towards a Coordinated National Vision for Brain Health

2025-12-23T08:16:28+00:0023-12-2025|NBCs|

The National Hub for Brain Health, launched and coordinated by the Portuguese Agency for Clinical Investigation and Biomedical Innovation (AICIB), represents a significant step toward structuring and aligning Portugal’s efforts in brain health. By bringing together a broad range of national stakeholders, including research institutions, healthcare providers, industry, patient organisations and public administration, the [...]

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22 12-2025

EBC supports WHO’s historical declaration on noncommunicable diseases and mental health

2025-12-22T12:50:41+00:0022-12-2025|News|

The European Brain Council welcomes landmark commitment to integrated approach for NCDs and mental health. Last week, 175 UN Member States adopted the Political Declaration of the Fourth High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health – the first declaration to address NCDs and mental health together through a fully integrated approach, and crucially, [...]

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19 12-2025

Spanish Brain Council: Promoting Brain Health Across the Lifespan: Socioeconomic Burden, Global Recommendations, and the Spanish National Plan

2025-12-19T13:10:52+00:0019-12-2025|NBCs|

Neurological and mental health disorders substantially reduce life expectancy and represent a major public health and socioeconomic burden in Europe, accounting for a significant proportion of disability and productivity loss. In Spain, conditions affecting brain health are among the most costly chronic diseases, representing nearly 8% of the national gross domestic product. In response [...]

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18 12-2025

EBC at the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought Ceremony

2025-12-23T10:22:04+00:0018-12-2025|News, Press Release|

The European Brain Council (EBC) attended the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought ceremony yesterday at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, where the 2025 award was presented to Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli and Belarusian journalist Andrzej Poczobut. Established by the European Parliament in 1988 and named after Russian physicist and human rights advocate Andrei [...]

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16 12-2025

Event Highlights – Rethinking Schizophrenia in Denmark: Schizophrenia and Brain Health​

2025-12-16T11:25:00+00:0016-12-2025|News|

Introduction  Following the recommendations set out in the Rethinking Schizophrenia Care Pathway in Europe study paper, the next phase of the project — Country Profiles: Beyond Mental Health – A Brain Health Approach to Schizophrenia Prevention and Care — will focus on an in-depth analysis of country-specific models of care. After a roundtable meeting in Poland on [...]

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12 12-2025

Poland: Children’s Health Forum 2025: Reflections on the First Edition

2025-12-12T09:34:07+00:0012-12-2025|NBCs|

On December 10, 2025, the International Congress Center hosted the first edition of the Children's Health Forum – an event dedicated to a holistic approach to children’s health and development from birth to school age. During the Forum, I had the pleasure of moderating the panel How to ensure the safety and mental health [...]

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3 12-2025

EBC Endorses the Rett Syndrome White Paper

2025-12-03T14:26:17+00:0003-12-2025|News|

EBC endorses the White Paper, Building Coordinated Care Pathways for Rett Syndrome: A Call to Action in Europe, co-authored by Charles River Associates, Rett Syndrome Europe and Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. with a special foreword from MEP Tom Sokol, which is now available to the public! This marks an important step in advancing the conversation [...]

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28 11-2025

Bulgarian Brain Council Pushes National Plan – Euractiv Article

2025-11-28T10:46:27+00:0028-11-2025|NBCs|

Bulgaria will establish six high-tech stroke treatment centres in the country’s largest cities to reduce its record-high stroke mortality, with the project to be financed through EU funds under the Recovery Plan, the Sofia health ministry told Euractiv. One of the EU’s poorest member states, Bulgaria, struggled for years to absorb money from the [...]

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28 11-2025

Hellenic Brain Council: 6th Brain and Mind Congress

2025-11-28T10:13:42+00:0028-11-2025|NBCs|

The 6th Interdisciplinary Conference “Brain & Mind” will be held 18–20 December 2025 at the Book Castle Hall of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. This hybrid-format conference (on-site and online) brings together neuroscientists, psychiatrists, psychologists, biologists, neuroimaging experts, philosophers and other researchers to explore the intricate relationship between brain and mind. [...]

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20 11-2025

EBC Endorses “European Migraine and Headache Alliance (EMHA) Roadmap 2025”

2025-11-20T10:20:42+00:0020-11-2025|News|

The European Brain Council (EBC) is pleased to announce its endorsement of the “European Migraine and Headache Alliance (EMHA) Roadmap 2025”, a major new initiative to advance migraine awareness, research, and policy at the European level. Migraine is a complex and disabling neurological condition affecting more than 41 million adults across the EU, and [...]

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