EUROPEAN NEUROLOGICAL REVIEW – VOLUME 15 ISSUE 1 – SUMMER 2020

Welcome to the latest edition of European Neurological Review. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought numerous challenges to neurologists, including how to deal with patients hospitalised with COVID-19 who require neurologic consultations, how we deal with routine neurologic consultations, as well the growing role of telemedicine. This issue features articles discussing the neurological impact of the pandemic, […]

The World Congress on Controversies in Neurology (CONy) provides a platform for international experts to discuss and compare experiences. Its debate-style structure bridges the gap between the latest scientific advances and their dissemination and use. The congress has become a major annual event for members of the neurological community. As a result of the COVID-19 […]

Despite the fact that migraine is the most prevalent neurological disorder worldwide, it remains under-diagnosed and under-treated in more than half of all patients.1 In the past decade, the development of monoclonal antibodies capable of blocking either calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) or its receptor have transformed the management of migraine.2 At present, fremanezumab (Ajovy®) is […]

In the past 4 months, a novel coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), has affected more than 200 countries. As of mid-June 2020, there are over 7 million confirmed cases and more than 425,888 deaths worldwide caused by the novel coronavirus, although the numbers are likely to be higher […]

Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders, affecting around 70 million people worldwide.1,2 Its management is mainly symptomatic, and long-term seizure remission is achieved in most cases.3,4 One-third of patients, however, continue to experience seizures despite adequate treatment.5 Remarkably, the burden of refractory epilepsy has remained stable over the last decades despite increasing therapeutic resources, including […]

Multiple sclerosis (MS) has traditionally been considered a primarily T-cell-mediated autoimmune disease of the central nervous system (CNS); this is based on data from animal models,1 the presence of activated T lymphocytes in MS plaques that outnumber B cells and T-cell subset alterations in blood,2 the association of MS with certain human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and a […]

Olfactory loss has been extensively studied in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and is now widely acknowledged as one of the major non-motor symptoms of the disease, which precedes the occurrence of clinical motor symptoms.1,2 It is found in around 90% of patients with PD,3–5 and has been considered as a supportive criterion in clinical PD diagnosis according to […]