A Special Session on “Severely affected patients in neurology and psychiatry: Detecting – Managing – Refining” was held as a virtual meeting on 24th May 2020. Many commonalities exist in both neurology and psychiatry as regards to the management of patients living with severe neurological or mental diseases, conditions that can have a great impact [...]
"Science & Society: Parkinson's Disease" is the title of the first video released by EBC on a new online communication with the goal of producing content that could cover some of our key messages and tackle complex issues such as brain disorders and their diagnosis. One of EBC’s key drivers is to raise awareness of [...]
The European Brain Council and beLean.net are excited to announce 'Save the Date' for the upcoming Brain Innovation Days, to be held in Brussels on 13-14 October and virtually all over Europe. The Brain Innovation Days will take over from EBC's 2018 event on "Enhanced engagement in public-private partnerships" and provide an opportunity to not [...]
EBC Brainy Insights, Week of 11 May 2020
European Brain Council (EBC) President, Prof Monica di Luca, is featured in the latest Open Access Government, a digital publication that provides an in-depth perspective on key public policy areas from all around the world. Prof Di Luca provides a voice for the brain research community here, exploring how the brain research community is affected by [...]
EBC Brainy Insights, Week of 4 May 2020
The Value of Treatment (VoT) project, a 2-year study initiated by the European Brain Council (EBC) in 2018, has been highlighted in the European Reference Network for Rare Diseases (ERN) Newsletter that is sent on a quarterly basis by the Directorate-General for Health & Food Safety of the European Commission. According to the European Reference Network on Rare Neurological Diseases (ERN-RND), there are 500,000 people living with rare [...]
The EBC Newsletter for April 2020 can be accessed here.
EBC Brainy Insights, Week of 27 April 2020
The new decade started out as any other but rapidly unfolded into a scenario that the world will remember for decades to come. What many in Europe and the western world viewed as an isolated incidence of a novel coronavirus in China and dotted across neighbouring Asian countries – [...]