Conference Scene: A report from the World Congress on Controversies in Neurology

The 6th World Congress on Controversies in Neurology, held in Vienna, Austria, in March 2012, provided a forum for clinicians and neuroscientists to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of a large spectrum of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. With 35 sessions, 65 debates (in four parallel sessions), two satellite symposia and poster sessions, the meeting highlighted the current diagnostic and management criteria across many areas of clinical neurology, with a wide range from multiple sclerosis, neuroimmunology, dementia, brain injury, neuro-oncology, neurogenesis, stroke, epilepsy, neurorehabilitation, movement disorders and neuropsychiatry. With a multidisciplinary approach, the conference aimed to clarify a myriad of controversial aspects in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of major neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases, in order to gain new insights into essential problems and to develop new treatment options for these disorders.