Mission

KNANN’s mission is to enhance and extend the neurological best practices in Kazakhstan and around the world. We want to improve the quality of medical services and to collaborate with the best clinicians, teachers and scientists.

The main objective of KNANN is transfer of best practices on issues of diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system (NS) as well as study their development mechanisms, symptoms and possible methods of diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Neurological disorders are diseases of the central and peripheral nervous system. In other words, the brain, spinal cord, cranial nerves, peripheral nerves, nerve roots, autonomic nervous system, neuromuscular junction, and muscles. These disorders include epilepsy, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, cerebrovascular diseases including stroke, migraine and other headache disorders, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, neuroinfections, brain tumours, traumatic disorders of the nervous system due to head trauma, and neurological disorders as a result of malnutrition.

Many bacterial (i.e. Mycobacterial tuberculosis, Neisseria meningitides), viral (i.e. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Enteroviruses, West Nile Virus, Zika), fungal (i.e. Cryptococcus, Aspergillus), and parasitic (i.e. malaria, Chagas) infections can affect the nervous system. Neurological symptoms may occur due to the infection itself, or due to an immune response. In the world today nervous system diseases mainly instigated by a wrong way of life, chronic stress, disturbed sleep mode and excessive loads (both emotional and physical).

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are affected by neurological disorders. More than 6 million people die because of stroke each year; over 80% of these deaths take place in low- and middle-income countries. More than 50 million people have epilepsy worldwide. It is estimated that there are globally 47.5 million people with dementia with 7.7 million new cases every year – Alzheimer’s disease is the most common cause of dementia and may contribute to 60–70% of cases. The prevalence of migraine is more than 10% worldwide.

We bring together neurology specialist from Kazakhstan and from abroad, and jointly solve urgent problems of diseases of the nervous system.