Con gran emoción queremos anunciar que la ILAE tiene una página en Twitter en español @ILAE_ES.

It was brought to the Executive Committee that the identification of ILAE regions as “Commission on [Region] Affairs” created the perception that the commissions were some form of governmental agency.

After discussion, the Committee decided to rename the commissions. Each region is managed by an Executive Board with its current officers. These new region names are effective immediately; please use them in your communications.

• ILAE-Africa
• ILAE-Asia and Oceania
• ILAE-Eastern Mediterranean
• ILAE-Europe
• ILAE-Latin America
• ILAE-North America

La Liga Colombiana contra la Epilepsia (LCE), capítulo para Colombia de la ILAE, nació en 1964, en la ciudad de Cartagena de Indias, junto al mar Caribe. Se extendió luego a todo el país. La LCE tiene capítulos en cada departamento o provincia de Colombia, con miembros no solo médicos sino de profesionales de muchas disciplinas.

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Application for the 2018-2019 Virtual Epilepsy Academy (VIREPA) Distance Education Program is now open and applications will be accepted until August 17. For details about the courses, fees, bursaries, and prerequisites, visit VIREPA.

Available courses: EEG Basic | EEG Advanced | Epilepsy & Sleep- Advanced

Epileptic Disorders now offers more:

• Practical information surrounding diagnosis and treatment
• Multimedia Teaching Material including EEG sequences, neuroimaging, neuropathology and neurosurgery
• Seminars in Epileptology for Neurologists and Child
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Epileptic Disorders: new Impact Factor: 1.500

• Incidence, prevalence and aetiology of seizures and epilepsy in children
• From here to epilepsy: the risk of seizure in patients with Alzheimer's disease
• Vagus nerve stimulation in children with drug-resistant epilepsy: age at implantation and shorter duration of epilepsy as predictors of better efficacy

Epilepsia: new Impact Factor: 5.067

• A definition and classification of status epilepticus – Report of the ILAE Task Force on Classification of Status Epilepticus
• A randomized, double‐blind, placebo‐controlled, multicenter, parallel‐group study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adjunctive brivaracetam in adult patients with uncontrolled partial‐onset seizures
• Better object recognition and naming outcome with MRI‐guided stereotactic laser amygdalohippocampotomy for temporal lobe epilepsy

Epilepsia Open: While our newest publication does not yet have an Impact Factor, the journal content is available in PubMed and PubMed Central, offering greater discoverability. We further hope to have this metric available for Epilepsia Open within the next couple of years.

• Optimal clinical management of children receiving dietary therapies for epilepsy: Updated recommendations of the International Ketogenic Diet Study Group
• Language mapping with navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation in pediatric and adult patients undergoing epilepsy surgery: Comparison with extraoperative direct cortical stimulation
• Facilitation of kindling epileptogenesis by chronic stress may be mediated by intestinal microbiome

Plan to Attend Future Congresses

26 – 30 August 2018
13th European Congress on Epileptology
Vienna, Austria

Congress website

• Register soon: Last minute registration deadline is 10th August

29 September - 2 October 2018
10th Congreso Latino Americano de Epilepsia
San José, Costa Rica

Congress website

• Early registration deadline is 10th August

22 - 26 June 2019
33rd International Epilepsy Congress
Bangkok, Thailand

Congress website

7 – 9 March 2019
5th East Mediterannean Epilepsy Congress
Marrakech, Morocco
Website coming soon

13 – 14 September 2018
Congreso de Epilepsia: 2018
Argentina
Chapter website

19 – 22 September 2018
16th Pan Arab Union of Neurological Societies (PAUNS) Meeting
Amman, Jordan
More information

26 – 28 September 2018
ILAE British Chapter Annual Meeting
Birmingham, UK
More information

28 September 2018
Irish Chapter of the ILAE 8th Annual Expert Day
Dublin, Irelend
More information

12 October 2018
Hungarian Chapter Congress
Hungary
Chapter website

16 - 19 October 2018
Journées Françaises de l'Epilepsie
Centre de Congres, Lyon, France
Website

26 - 27 October 2018
6th UAE Epilepsy Congress
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Website

31 October – 2 November 2018
32nd Epilepsy Society of Australia Annual Meeting
Brisbane, Australia
Chapter website

15 November 2018
Swedish Chapter National Meeting
Lund, Sweden

30 November - 4 December 2018
American Epilepsy Society ( AES) Annual Meeting
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Abstract submission deadline: 29 May
Chapter website

8 - 11 May 2019
Annual Meeting of the Austrian and German Societies for Epileptology and the Swiss Epilepsy League (“Dreilaendertagung”)
Basel, Switzerland
Meeting website