Investigator Award Winners 2009
We congratulate the winners of the EFNS Investigator Awards 2009!
(the Prize consists of an Award certificate, €500,-, an EFNS-Florence T-Shirt and an EFNS scarf or tie)
Alexandra Araujo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Quality of life and motor ability in spinal muscular atrophy awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on ALS
Antonella Biasiotta, Rome, Italy: Laser evoked potentials as a tool for assessing the efficacy of antinocicptive drugs awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neuropathic Pain
Carlo Borsato, Padova, Italy: Physical activity as an adverse factor in the course of natural history in LGMD2B awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Muscle disorders
Stine Knudsen, Glostrup, Denmark: The association between hypocretin-1 deficiency, cataplexy, and REM sleep behaviour disorder (RBD) in narcolepsy awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Sleep disorders
Maja Kojovic, London, UK: The syndrome of deafness-dystonia – a case series of 11 patients awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Movement disorders
Peter Lackner, Innsbruck, Austria: IgG-index predicts neurological morbidity in patients with infectious and neoplastic central nervous system diseases awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Infectious diseases
Aslaug R. Lorentzen, Oslo, Norway: Killer immunoglobulin-like receptor ligand HLA-Bw4 protects against multiple sclerosis awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases
Eleftherios Papathanasiou, Nicosia, Cyprus: A new neurogenic vestibular evoked potential (N6) recorded with the use of air-conducted sound awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neuro-ophthalmology/ -otology
Maria Grazia Passarin, Verona, Italy: Neoplastic meningitis: diagnosis, treatment and survival – a retrospective study in 30 patients awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neuro-oncology
Veronica Popescu, Lille, France: Influence of pre-existing cognitive decline on functional prognosis one year after a spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhage awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Stroke
Kerri Prain, Brisbane, Australia: Atypical NMO-IgG-like in direct immunofluorescence patterns in acute systemic infections awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neuroimmunology
Ernestina Santos, Porto, Portugal: Late-onset vanishing white matter disease awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Genetics and metabolic disorders
Stefan Sivak, Martin, Slovakia: Clinical correlation of traumatic MRI findings in patients with mild traumatic brain injury awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neuroimaging and –sonology
Anika Stroebele, Erlangen, Germany: Theory of mind in mesial temporal lobe epilepsy awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Epilepsy
Sylvia Van Barneveld, Enschede, The Netherlands: Evaluation of the “finger wrinkling test” awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on ANS
Rik Vandenberghe, Leuven, Belgium: In-vivo exclusion of Alzheimer’s disease as a cause of primary progressive aphasia awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Dementia and Cognitive Neurology
Shoji Yamamoto, Tsukuba, Japan: Analysis of the neurotoxic effect of nanoparticle-rich diesel exhaust on a mouse brain awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Substance abuse and neurotoxicology
Gordana Zupan, Rijeka, Croatia: Effects of PPAR-γ agonist pioglitazone on the hippocampus in traumatic brain injured rats awarded by the EFNS Scientist Panel on Neurotraumatology
