Almost one hundred dystonia experts and Boston Scientific staff had gathered at the Fillerval Castle north of Paris for the two-day meeting: Boston Scientific International Masters’ Debate: Reshaping the Future of DBS. Presentations followed by debates engaged the participants who contributed to fruitful discussions. Boston Scientific also celebrated its 5th Anniversary since the launch of…

This weekend DDF – the Danish Dystonia Association – celebrated its 25th Anniversary. The organization was founded in 1992 and has today a little more than 600 members. The focus of their work is to raise awareness and inform about dystonia, treatment and research. For this very special celebration about 100 dystonia patients and family members…

Last weekend the French Dystonia Association, AMADYS, celebrated its 30th Anniversary in Lyon, France. Over 200 participants had come from all over France to take part in the event. President Edwige Ponseel welcomed everybody and wished them a fun and festive day. Professor Vial, member of the AMADYS Scientific Committee, was proud to welcome the…

The 24th Dystonia Europe General Assembly was held on 12 May at the IBIS Styles Roma Hotel in Rome, Italy. Representatives from 15 of the 21 member organisations were present. They were from: Croatia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, the UK, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Switzerland and Romania. President Merete Avery welcomed everybody to the…

Our congratulations to Dr. Niccolò Mencacci and the David Marsden Award 2017 for his paper: “A Missense Mutation in KCTD17 Causes Autosomal Dominant Myoclonus-Dystonia”. Dr Mencacci was presented with the award by Dystonia Europe President Merete Avery at the D-DAYs 2017 held in Rome last weekend. Dr Mencacci expressed his thanks to DE and Ipsen for the…