Gender issues during the times of COVID-19 pandemic
Wolfgang Grisold
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Vienna, Austria
Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorElena Moro
Division of Neurology, CHU of Grenoble, Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience, Grenoble, France
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorMaria Teresa Ferretti
Women's Brain Project, Guntershausen, Switzerland
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Search for more papers by this authorAnne Hege Aamodt
Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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Search for more papers by this authorGennarina Arabia
Institute of Neurology, University ‘Magna Graecia’ of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
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Search for more papers by this authorElena R. Lebedeva
International Headache Centre ‘Europe-Asia’, Ural State Medical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
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Search for more papers by this authorVanessa Carvalho
Department of Neurology, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos Local Health Unit, Matosinhos, Portugal
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Search for more papers by this authorMartin Rakusa
Department of Neurology, Medical Research Department, University Medical Centre Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
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Search for more papers by this authorKristl Vonck
Department of Neurology, Institute for Neuroscience, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
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Search for more papers by this authorSelma Aybeck
Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Search for more papers by this authorAlia Hassan Mansour
Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
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Search for more papers by this authorRiadh Goudier
Department of Neurology, Razi Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia
Faculty of Medicine, University Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
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Search for more papers by this authorGavin Giovannoni
Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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Search for more papers by this authorJoke Jaarsma
European Federation of Neurological Associations, Brussels, Belgium
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Search for more papers by this authorMaria Judit Molnar
Institute of Genomic Medicine and Rare Disorders, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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Search for more papers by this authorMagda Matczack
European Academy of Neurology, Vienna, Austria
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Search for more papers by this authorClaudio Bassetti
Department of Neurology, University of Bern, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
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Marianne de Visser
Department of Neurology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Correspondence
Marianne de Visser, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Email: [email protected]
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Writing - original draft (lead), Writing - review & editing (lead)
Search for more papers by this authorfor the EAN Gender, Diversity Issues Task Force
Search for more papers by this authorWolfgang Grisold
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Vienna, Austria
Contribution: Conceptualization (equal), Writing - original draft (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorElena Moro
Division of Neurology, CHU of Grenoble, Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience, Grenoble, France
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorMaria Teresa Ferretti
Women's Brain Project, Guntershausen, Switzerland
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorAnne Hege Aamodt
Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorGennarina Arabia
Institute of Neurology, University ‘Magna Graecia’ of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorElena R. Lebedeva
International Headache Centre ‘Europe-Asia’, Ural State Medical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorVanessa Carvalho
Department of Neurology, Hospital Pedro Hispano, Matosinhos Local Health Unit, Matosinhos, Portugal
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorMartin Rakusa
Department of Neurology, Medical Research Department, University Medical Centre Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorKristl Vonck
Department of Neurology, Institute for Neuroscience, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorSelma Aybeck
Department of Neurology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorAlia Hassan Mansour
Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorRiadh Goudier
Department of Neurology, Razi Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia
Faculty of Medicine, University Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorGavin Giovannoni
Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorJoke Jaarsma
European Federation of Neurological Associations, Brussels, Belgium
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorMaria Judit Molnar
Institute of Genomic Medicine and Rare Disorders, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorMagda Matczack
European Academy of Neurology, Vienna, Austria
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorClaudio Bassetti
Department of Neurology, University of Bern, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
Contribution: Writing - review & editing (equal)
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Marianne de Visser
Department of Neurology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Correspondence
Marianne de Visser, Department of Neurology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Email: [email protected]
Contribution: Conceptualization (lead), Writing - original draft (lead), Writing - review & editing (lead)
Search for more papers by this authorfor the EAN Gender, Diversity Issues Task Force
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Conflict of interest
Drs Ferretti, Giovannoni, Gouider and Moro report personal fees from sources outside the submitted work. The other authors have no conflict of interest to report.
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