... specialties (e.g., oncology and psychiatry). Such an analysis is lacking in neurological cases. Thus, we performed an anonymized, retrospective, multicenter analysis of administrative data from a network of 86 hospitals in Germany. Methods: Over 350,000 neurological cases admitted between January 2019...

... linked to secondary epilepsy compared to a primary cause, but the appropriate use of antiepileptic drugs significantly reduces the burden [ 10, 11 ]. Stroke, epilepsy, and dementia constitute a substantial part of the increasing burden of neurological diseases in Africa. Focusing on the global...

...Sumayya Mohammed; Javed Siddiqi Introduction: Medicine and the field of neurology are not immune to gender and racial disparities present more broadly in society. Even within academia there remains a persistent lack of representation of women and racial minorities, but with the recent spotlight...

...Jaime Luna; Charline Leroi; Pierre-Marie Preux; Edgard Brice Ngoungou; Benoît Marin; Farid Boumediene Introduction: Neurological disorders are an important cause of disability and death worldwide. The distribution of these disorders differs significantly in developing countries. Screening...

...Devender Bhalla This article presents the contribution by two senior French Neurologists over the past three decades in building, developing and promoting ‘tropical neurology' in a number of neglected countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. It talks about the ‘human, dedicational...

...Valery Feigin A highlight of the congress was an interactive and inclusive discussion of the existing gaps between clinical neurology and epidemiology and the ways of bridging these gaps. Some perceptions, challenges and scientific issues between experimental and nonexperimental neuroepidemiology...

...Kenji Nakashima; Yoshitaka Yokoyama; Ryoji Shimoyama; Hiroshi Saito; Nobutoshi Kuno; Kazuhiko Sano; Yongshang Rin; Yoshiki Adachi; Katsuya Urakami; Takashi Oshima; Kenzo Takeshita; Kazuro Takahashi The prevalence of all neurological disorders in a Japanese town was calculated, with a result of 91.1...

...Oliver C. Cockerell; Seema Gupta; Mike Catchpole; Josemir W.A.S. Sander; Simon D. Shorvon The British Neurological Surveillance Unit was set up in January 1993 with the aim of co-ordinating and improving the ascertainment of rare neurological disorders in the United Kingdom by using a system...

...M. Schluep; J. Bogousslavsky; F. Regli; M. Tendon; L.S. Prod'hom; C. Kleiber We have developed a protocol to identify unnecessary days of hospitalisation in the Department of Neurology of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland. Seventy-four parameters (medical, social...

...Chester Nakamura; Craig A. Molgaard Neuroepidemiology is that branch of chronic disease epidemiology dealing with disorders that affect the nervous system. The potential for neurological involvement in the diagnosis and pathogenesis of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has recently been...