Editorial
Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends,
On behalf of the SENP Board and the Organising Committee, we are delighted to welcome you to Italy, to Brescia (ancient Roman Brixia), for the 41st SENP Congress. We will be developing the meeting around 2 main themes which we believe to be of great topicality and interest to the paediatric neurology community: PSYCHIATRIC MANIFESTATIONS OF CHILDREN’S NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES and EFFECTIVE AND RECENT MEDICINES IN CHILDREN’S NEUROLOGICAL PATHOLOGY. We find these subjects stimulating and interesting because of the new perspectives they open up in clinical practice. We hope you enjoy attending this meeting and visiting the city of Brescia, the ‘lioness’ of Italy, so called because of the courageous and enterprising character of its inhabitants.
Today, Brescia is a thriving industrial city, second only to Milan in Lombardy. It is a melting pot of technological and cultural modernity, and an avant-garde city in terms of its wealth of universities and its range of services for citizens.
But Brescia is also proud of its past: it is a very old city, and there are many legends about its origins and its name. Brescia was an important and influential Roman city, and enjoyed centuries of splendour until the end of the Roman Empire.
It retained its influence despite the barbarian invasions. The city’s architectural beauty is rooted in its history. Its city centre offers tourists a wealth of remains and monuments: the medieval castle, known as Italy’s ‘falcon’, the Santa Giulia monastery (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), its beautiful squares (from the Roman era to the Renaissance), the Roman remains with the Capitolium temple, and its many churches. I hope that during these days of congress, we will have the opportunity to enrich our professional knowledge in the fraternal atmosphere that is the richness of our Society, and to quench our cultural thirst in the prestigious site of this city with a glorious past. Welcome to Brescia.
Elisa Fazzi
President of the Congress
