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Over 3200 participants from 86 countries worldwide attended the meeting. From the very first sessions on, people poured in to take part in the high quality scientific programme.

All the teaching courses were extremely well attended, which shows that the goal of the ENS to advance teaching in Neurological sciences in Europe with teaching courses and workshops at the annual meetings is as prominent as ever.

The Presidential Symposium of the 18^th ENS was entitled: Coma and locked-in syndrome. Prof. Gustave Moonen, Liège,  Chair of the Symposium, delivered the first lecture of the series, which was entitled Coma and locked-in syndrome – Disorders of consciousness. Dr. Nicholas Schiff, New York, continued the Symposium by presenting scientific results on the topic Multimodal neuroimaging studies in coma and related disorders. Dr. Adrian Owen, Cambridge, pursued with his presentation concerning Detecting awareness in non-communicative patients using fMRI. The closing lecture of the Presidential Symposium was delivered by Dr. Andrea Kübler, Tübingen, on the application of Thought translation devices in the locked-in syndrome.

1066 abstracts were submitted for presentation. 18% were rejected, out of the remaining ones, 20% were chosen to be presented orally and 80% were selected as posters.

The ENS did not only offer a congenial atmosphere for everyone to learn and to observe the latest developments in neurology but also offered a unique social programme to the Participants to continue the networking.