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Foreword
Tamás Péter Dóczi
Department of Neurosurgery, Centre for Medical and Health Sciences, Pécs Medical University
Tamás Péter Dóczi is a Professor and Chairman in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Centre for Medical and Health Sciences at Pécs
Medical University. He is Past Vice President of the European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS), Past President of the Hungarian
Neurosurgical Society and a long-serving member of the Congress of Neurosurgeons, the Central European Neurosurgical Society and the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Professor Dóczi was previously Associate Editor of Acta Neurochirurugica and is a previous winner of the
Upjohn Prize from the EANS.
T
he primary objective of European Neurological Review is to promote the free interchange of neurological and
neurosurgical knowledge and experience among its readers. The journal consistently presents clinical research of
educational interest, covering multiple sclerosis, brain trauma and stroke, age-related brain degeneration, neurological surgery,
neuroradiology and many other important areas. This issue offers useful advice on clinical approaches, strategies, philosophies
and even training programmes, and contributes towards the establishment of uniform standards throughout neurology in
Europe. Contributors are drawn from universities throughout Europe, including the UK (University College London, Walton
Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Sweden (University Hospital Uppsala and
Karolinska Institute), Italy (University Hospital of Ferrara), Germany (University Duisburg-Essen) and others.
In the field of Parkinson’s disease, K Ray Chaudhuri and co-authors ask whether continuous dopaminergic stimulation is
beneficial for non-motor symptoms in late-stage Parkinson’s disease, while Andrew Lees of University College London
discusses the optimum time to commence Parkinson’s disease therapy and which therapies to choose. In the field of multiple
sclerosis, Luisa Imberti et al. present an impressive paper on ‘Increase of IFNAR1 Messenger RNA in Myxovirus-protein-A-
induced Multiple Sclerosis Patients to Oppose Loss of Protein Receptor’. David Bates of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
discusses some important unmet needs for people with multiple sclerosis. Stroke is a major focus of this issue.
‘Widening the Time Window for Intravenous Thrombolysis – Magnetic Resonance Imaging-based Selection’ by Geoffrey A
Donnan et al. suggests there is strong biological evidence that the use of imaging techniques, particularly magnetic resonance
imaging using perfusion-weighted imaging–diffusion-weighted imaging (PWI–DWI) mismatch, may allow the selection of
patients likely to be responsive to thrombolytic therapy beyond the established period of three hours (and now beyond 4.5
hours, following the publication of the ECASS 3 study). Concluding the publication is a section on international health, with
an insightful contribution from Karin Edebol Eeg-Olofsson at University Hospital Uppsala presenting research about upper
motor neuron disorders in Africa.
With so much research being carried out in our field, it can be difficult to keep up to date with the developments relevant to
our own specialities. This issue of European Neurological Review provides an excellent service in providing short, concise
reviews that, combined, cover an extraordinary breadth and can help the busy clinician expand his or her knowledge. I
strongly anticipate that it will meet all of these requirements and recruit more professional readers. ■
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