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Shaul Harel was born Charlie Hilsberg in Brussels, Belgium in 1937, the youngest of five children. His father was a haberdasher and a Cantor, distinguished for his particularly beautiful voice. A happy childhood and formal education were irrevocably and brutally disrupted at age five. In the first stage of Nazi occupation of Belgium his oldest brother volunteered to do agricultural work in Germany with the promise that this would save further trouble to his family. He was sent to Auschwitz. The deportation and deaths of Shaul's parents and his becoming one of the "hidden children" followed. Dr. Harel has...

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International Conference on Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy26-28 October 2012Bel Air Hotel, The Hague, The Netherlands Please open the online version of this message if the HTML is not correctly displayed. Conference Website Submit Abstract Register Committee Deadlines ...

Dr GatsonIn a study presented at Experimental Biology 2012 in San Diego CA, Dr Joshua Gatson and his team from the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas demonstrates for the first time the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant capabilities of estrone after traumatic brain injury. The study, conducted in male rats, compared 0.5 mg of estrone to a placebo, both given 30 minutes after the injury. It demonstrated that estrone is involved in promoting brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which promotes cell survival. Oestrone was administered withing 30 minutes of brain injury and resulted in an increase in BDNF, suggesting...

A  special interest group meeting will be held at the ICNC2012 Date: May 31, 2012 Time: 1300-1330 hrs Venue: Mezzanine M room 7/8, Brisbane Convention Centre Topic: Does Vigabatrin treatment in infancy bring visual field defects Please contactThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would wish to participate or contribute to this meeting.  {JFBCLiveStream} Read More

Ann Neurol 2012 Mar 4. Study shows that the 2010 McDonald criteria can be applied for early diagnosis of Paediatric MS in children older than 11yrs, with non ADEM-like presentations.  http://bit.ly/Hxcx79 Read More

ICNA President-Elect elections are underway. The online voting site will remain open until 12 Noon GMT on Tuesday April 17, 2012. Your vote in this election is very important. Please take a few minutes to visit the online voting site and register your choice. If you haven't received your voting credentials by email, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. asap Read More

Immunotherapy with peptide vaccines may offer a much-needed therapeutic option for gliomas in children, which carry a poor prognosis despite current treatments. In a pilot trial of subcutaneous vaccinations with peptides for glioma-associated antigen (GAA) epitopes in children who have been newly diagnosed with brain stem gliomas, cerebral high-grade gliomas, or recurrent gliomas, the immunotherapy was well tolerated and demonstrated immunologic and clinical activity, Dr. Ian F. Pollack reported April 2 at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. For the pilot study Dr. Pollack, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at...

Vaccines for measles were not associated with an increased risk of febrile seizures* among 4-6 year olds during the six weeks after vaccination, according to a study by the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center that appears in the current issue of Pediatrics. Funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the study of 86,750 children follows an earlier study published in Pediatrics that showed one particular combination of measles-containing vaccine - the measles, mumps, rubella and chickenpox containing vaccination (or MMRV) - was associated with an increased risk of febrile seizures in...