History of the establishment of the Egyptian Society for Neurological, Psychiatric, and Neurosurgery (ESNPN) and its headquarter:
The foundation stone of the Egyptian Medical Association was laid on the land on which it is currently built (Dar El-Hekma) in September 1936, which is located at 42 Qasr Al-Ainy Street and has an area of 2154 m2, which was leased in 1932 for 99 years, with a nominal rent of one Egyptian pound per year. It is in the largest district for medicine in Egypt, next to Kasr Al-Ainy Teaching Hospital, Al-Manial University Hospital, Cairo University Faculty of Medicine, the Children’s Hospital in Al-Munira (Abu Al-Rish), and the research institutes for Tropical Medicine, Nutrition Institute and Cancer Institute and also nearby Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population.
History of conferences held by ESNPN:
Since its inception, the society has held many prestigious scientific events that hosted numerous eminent figures in neuroscience from across the globe. It held the first and second International Conference on Epilepsy in 1976 and 1981 (Figure 1, 2), which were attended by many prominent international epileptologists at the time (Figure 3) and had a great impact on Egypt’s scientific leadership in this field. Also, it organized the Regional Conference on Cerebral Blood Vessels Disorders in the Arab League in 1983 and 1995.
Since 1999 under the presidency of Prof Shaker Aref (Mansoura University), the annual conference of the society has been called (Cairo International Neurology Conference ‘CNC’) and become numbered. The first conference kicked off in December of 1999, and the subsequent one was held in 2000, under the chairmanship of Prof Mohamed Montaser Ibrahim (Cairo University). The CNC has been held annually in February every year. In 2008; two annual CNC events were conducted, the first in February in Cairo and the second in June in Alexandria.
The ESNPN is a pioneer among the founding societies of the Pan Arab Union of Neurological Societies (PAUNS), headquartered in Cairo in 1975. Egypt hosted its first conference (1975), the 6th PAUNS conference (1995), the 9th PAUNS conference (2003), the 10th PAUNS conference (2005), the 13th PAUNS conference (2013), and the 17th PAUNS conference (2020).
Social magazines:
The Society has published several social and cultural newsletters, most notably the ‘Social Bulletin’, which debuted in October 1991 (Figure 4-6). which was headed by Prof. Dr. Anwar Al-Atribi (Ain Shams University), the editorial secretary was Prof. Dr. Mohamed Eltamawy (Cairo University), and the editorial board was made up of Prof. Dr. El-Bahi Reda (Al-Azhar University), Prof. Dr. M. Ossama Abdel-Ghani (Ain Shams University), and Prof. Dr. Sherif Hamdy (Cairo University). As a result of this notion, “Al-Matraqa magazine” was established in 2012 and it included social, political, religious, economic, and sports essays and Caricatures in which several Egyptian neurologists took part. The articles were delivered through email; esnpn.magazine@yahoo.com
Presidents of the ESNPN since its inception:
| Youssef Helmy Genena | Cairo University | 1955–1987 |
| Abbas Helmy Hassan | Ain Shams University | |
| Yehia Tahir Mohammed | Cairo University | |
| Omar El-Garem | Alexandria University | |
| Mahmoud Mostafa | Ain Shams University | 1988–1989 |
| Osama Hassan Olwan | Cairo University | 1988–1990 |
| Mohammed Emad El-din Fadly | Ain Shams University | 1990–1991 |
| Farouk Koura | Cairo University | 1991–1992 |
| Mohammed Nagati Abd Elrahman | Mansoura University | 1992–1993 |
| Sameeha Abd El Moneam | Ain Shams University | 1993–1994 |
| Mohammed Ahmed El-Fatatry | Alexandria University | 1994–1995 |
| Obsis Ibrahim Madkour | Cairo University | 1995–1996 |
| Mahmoud Raafat kandel | Assuit University | 1996–1997 |
| Abd El-Lattif Mossa Osman | Azhar University | 1997–1998 |
| Shaker Arif Abdallah | Mansoura University | 1998–1999 (December 1 – 3 1999) first CNC |
| Mohammed Montaser Ibrahim | Cairo University | 2000 |
| Mohammed Anwar Eletribi | Ain Shams University | 2001 |
| Ashraf Zaitoun | Zagazig University | 2002 |
| Mahmoud Allam | Cairo University | 2003 |
| Farouk Talaat | Alexandria University | 2004 |
| Saher Hashim | Cairo University | 2005 |
| Saleh Atteya | Mansoura University | 2006 |
| Nadia Hafez | Alexandria University | 2007 |
| Samy El-Shazly | Zagazig University | 2008 |
| Azza El-Mongi | Mansoura University | 2009 |
| Mohammed Eltamawy | Cairo University | 2010 |
| Hamdy Eltellawy | Assuit University | 2011 |
| Yousry Elsenousy | Tanta University | 2012 deceased while presiding over society |
| Abdulla El Maamoun Sarhan | Zagazig University | 2012 |
| M. Ossama Abdulghani | Ain Shams University | 2013 |
| Mohammed S. Shehab | Mansoura University | 2014 |
| Hassan Farweez | Assuit University | 2015 |
| Sherif Hamdy | Cairo University | 2016 |
| Yousria El Taweel | Zagazig University | 2017 |
| Mahmoud Haroun | Ain Shams University | 2018 |
| Hussein Mohammed Hussein | Azhar University | 2019 |
| Maged Abdel-Naseer | Cairo University | 2020 |
| Ashraf Abdou | Alexandria University | 2021 |
| Ali Solieman | Zagazig University | 2022 |
| Azza Abdelnasser | Ain Shams University | 2023 |
