We'd like to welcome all readers worldwide to the August 2025 issue of World Neurology. In this issue, Prof. Wolfgang Grisold, president of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN), updates readers on some of the many important WFN activities. These include the upcoming XXVII World Congress of Neurology (WCN), October 12-15, 2025, in Seoul, South Korea, the Council of Delegates (COD) meeting, World Brain Day 2025, and several of WFN's many ongoing advocacy and educational initiatives.
This issue features many reports from our member societies around the globe detailing their activities for July's World Brain Day 2025 and its theme, "Brain Health for All Ages." You can read about WBD celebrations throughout Sri Lanka, South Africa, India, and Pakistan. We plan even more reports in the next issue, including an overall summary of this globally successful event.
Dr. Peter J. Koehler follows up on his article, which appeared in the previous issue of World Neurology, regarding the First International Neurology Congress in Bern, Switzerland, the precursor to the World Congress of Neurology. In this issue's History column, Dr. Koehler highlights the women who participated in that first international congress in 1931.
Dr. Ndonji Chiwaya, an incoming neurology resident at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia, reports on a fresh "flipped classroom" approach to teaching neurology instituted by the faculty there. This was also recently reported in the WFN's official journal, the Journal of the Neurologic Sciences.
Dr. Massimo Leone updates us on a pioneering and successful program that began in 2020 at primary care centers as part of the Disease Relief Through Excellent and Advanced Means (DREAM) program. Aimed at improving epilepsy care in Sub-Saharan Africa, the program was created in partnership with the C. Besta Neurologic Institute IRCCS Milan, the Italian Society of Neurology, and Global Health Telemedicine.
Dr. László Csiba provides an overview of the history and development of the field of neurology in Hungary, beginning with the establishment of the first Department of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Budapest in 1882. In closing, we again thank all neurologists and neurologic trainee readers in all regions of the world for your interest in the WFN and World Neurology. We look forward to receiving more of your illustrated reports on events and celebrations of the recent World Brain Day (WBD) 2025, "Brain Health for All Ages," to publish in upcoming issues.
We hope to see you at WCN 2025 in Seoul this October. There is still time to register, and don't forget to sign your team up for the Tournaments of the Minds! ■
By Steven L. Lewis, MD, Editor, and Walter Struhal, MD, Co-Editor
Published by Ascend Integrated Media LLC, Kansas, USA
Highlights
President's Column
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Neurology Takes Center Stage Worldwide ⧉
By Wolfgang Grisold
From WFN
- ISCSL 2025 Elevates Understanding of Stroke ⧉
By Gamini Pathirana - Transforming Education in Zambia ⧉
By Ndonji Chiwaya
World Brain Day 2025
- World Brain Day 2025 in India ⧉
By Drs. Chandrashekhar Meshram, Nirmal Surya, Sangeeta Ravat, and U. Meenakshisundaram - World Brain Day Activities in Pakistan ⧉
By Prof. Abdul Malik - World Brain Day Activities in South Africa ⧉
By Prof. Lawrence Tucker and Dr. Patty Francis - IFNR, Epilepsy Foundation India Celebrate WBD in India ⧉
By Dr. Nirmal Surya - World Brain Day Activities in Sri Lanka ⧉
By Dr. Janaka Waidyasekara, MBBS, MD, FCCP
History
- Women Who Participated in the First International Congress of Neurology ⧉
By Peter J. Koehler - The Hungarian Neurological Society ⧉
By Prof. László Csiba - Epilepsy in Primary Care in Sub-Saharan Africa ⧉
By Prof. Massimo Leone
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