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The mission of the WFN, as a UK registered charity, is to foster quality neurology and brain health worldwide, a goal we seek to achieve by promoting global neurological education and training, with the emphasis placed firmly on under-resourced parts of the world.
The World Federation of Neurology | Neurology News
2d ago
Placebo and recently the term nocebo are often used in situations where uncertain effects, possibly the effect of the mind works, and have been often disregarded as scientifical activities. All of us working with patients are implicitly using the concept of placebo, and sometimes the negative prediction, the nocebo ..read more
The World Federation of Neurology | Neurology News
6d ago
The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced that he had discovered the bacterium that causes TB, which opened the way towards diagnosing and curing this disease ..read more
The World Federation of Neurology | Neurology News
1w ago
Neurological conditions now leading cause of ill health and disability globally, affecting 3.4 billion people worldwide ..read more
The World Federation of Neurology | Neurology News
1w ago
Vol. 458, March 2024 now available ..read more
The World Federation of Neurology | Neurology News
2w ago
The quandary persists, how can “asymptomatic” HT be linked with a serious adverse event and worse clinical outcomes, whether due to spontaneous recanalization, IVT or EVT? Perhaps, the stroke community is agnostic to ever knowing or realizing the actual causal relationship of HT with respect to individual patient-related factors or specific treatments, including combinations with IVT and EVT. It is also quite arbitrary to designate certain cases of HT as “asymptomatic” when we truly cannot disprove a link with symptoms or long-term clinical outcomes. In short, it is increasingly clear tha ..read more
The World Federation of Neurology | Neurology News
2w ago
For over 55 years, OMIM has chronicled the collected knowledge of the field of medical genetics and remains one of the primary repositories of curated information on both genetic disorders (phenotypes) and genes and the relationships between them.  ..read more
The World Federation of Neurology | Neurology News
2w ago
Whether asymptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) affects the clinical outcomes in patients with acute large vessel occlusion treated with mechanical thrombectomy (MT) remains unclear. This study aimed to address this uncertainty ..read more
The World Federation of Neurology | Neurology News
2w ago
While some forms of Parkinson’s disease are caused by genetics, others have environmental factors, and patients can show a wide range of symptoms of varying severity. In a paper published in The Lancet Neurology, a group of scientists argue that this complexity demands a new way of classifying the disease for research purposes, one based not on clinical diagnosis but biology. The authors have called their biological model “SynNeurGe ..read more
The World Federation of Neurology | Neurology News
3w ago
For over 55 years, OMIM has chronicled the collected knowledge of the field of medical genetics and remains one of the primary repositories of curated information on both genetic disorders (phenotypes) and genes and the relationships between them.  ..read more
The World Federation of Neurology | Neurology News
1M ago
Whether asymptomatic intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) affects the clinical outcomes in patients with acute large vessel occlusion treated with mechanical thrombectomy (MT) remains unclear. This study aimed to address this uncertainty ..read more