European School for Young Neurologists provides three fully-packed days of learning

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The 2025 MDS-ES School for Young Neurologists was July 10-12 at the ICM – Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord on the Pitié-Salpêtrière campus in Paris. 

This year’s Summer School was organized by Professor Marie Vidaillet and Professor Emmanuel Flammand Roze and combined, as usual, lectures covering broad topics in movement disorders, clinical examination rounds, hands-on workshops, and “bring your own case” (BYOC) presentations. 

The first day started with a focus on Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. The morning sessions addressed diagnosis, clinical features, biomarkers and genetics, discussed contemporary pharmacologic treatments including device-aided approaches, deep brain stimulation and focal ultrasounds. The morning ended with an interesting lecture on cognitive/behavioural symptoms. In the afternoon, the topics switched atypical parkinsonism, imaging in parkinsonian syndromes, sleep disorders and finally, eye-movement examination. After the afternoon lectures, the students were split into parallel clinical rounds and workshops on electrophysiology and botulinum toxin strategy. The day concluded with BYOC case presentations, formal closing remarks, and a welcoming networking reception between students and faculty.  

On the second day, the teaching course turned to hyperkinetic disorders. The morning progressed through an overview of hyperkinetic syndromes, followed by a session on dystonia and another with Paroxysmal movement disorders. Continuing on hyperkinetic disorders, subsequent sessions covered tremor and look-alikes, as well as a concentrated review of myoclonus, followed by an amazing session on ataxia disorders. The morning ended with a lecture of mechanism-based guidance on gait disorders, choreas, and look-alikes disorders. As on the first day, in the afternoon, learners rotated between workshops and patient rounds. On the second evening, a “Video Dinner” of illustrative cases took place, as well as a short presentation from MDS Young Members Special Interest Group.  

On the last day, the course decided to address challenging entities, syndromes and mimics, treatable movement disorders, and functional movement disorders. The course ended with the presentation of selected BYOC by students, with the interesting case entitled “Canary and movement disorders: A latent aetiology” by Khachik Petrosyan winning the best case, as voted by his peers.  

These were three fully packed days of learning and networking, leaving students and faculty with a feeling of an accomplished mission.