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31 August 2007
31 August, 2007 in FENS News President of the Slovak Society of Neuroscience deceased Prof. Jozef Mar?ala M.D., D.Sc., founder and acting head of Slovak Society of Neuroscience, one of the pillars of neurosciences in Slovakia, suddenly and unexpectedly passed away on August 26, 2007. Professor Mar?ala was born in 1929 in a small mountain [...] Read More
31 August 2007
31 August, 2007 in FENS News Access to the Royal Society Digital Journal Archive The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive, dating back to 1665 and containing in excess of 60,000 articles, will be free online from September 1 to November 30, 2007. During this three month period, librarians and academics will be able to access [...] Read More
22 August 2007
22 August, 2007 in FENS News Oxford University Press is pleased to offer members of FENS a 20% discount This discount applies to the extensive range of books in neuroscience, to all scientific and medical books and a broad range of other books published by Oxford University Press. Some of the highlights available from the [...] Read More
06 July 2007
06 July, 2007 in FENS News FENS offers affiliated membership Any industrial organization or non-industrial organization with an interest in neuroscience may apply to the FENS for Affiliated Membership. FENS offers two levels of membership: Platinum Sustaining Corporate Membership and Gold Sustaining Corporate Membership, to corporate organizations with an interest in helping to maintain FENS [...] Read More
07 June 2007
07 June, 2007 in FENS News DANA/FENS - Final Report 2007 The final report from the 31 DANA/FENS funded Brain Awareness Week Projects is now available on the FENS website. In 2007, the directors of the Dana Foundation again approved a grant to FENS. This money together with an additional allowance from FENS, enabled FENS [...] Read More
06 June 2007
06 June, 2007 in FENS News FENS welcomes satellite events for the next FENS Forum in Geneva 2008 If you wish to organise and announce a satellite meeting, please forward us your request at fensforum@bordeaux.inserm.fr, before October 31, 2007, including: - title - venue - dates and time - names of the speakers and tentative [...] Read More
18 January 2007
18 January, 2007 in FENS News FENS travel grants for IBRO Meeting in Melbourne awarded FENS awarded 10 travel grants for the participation in the IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience (July 12 – 17, 2007) in Melbourne/Australia The following applicants were successful: Baumgärtel, Karsten (Switzerland) Bouhy, Delphine (Belgium) Collignon, Oliver (Canada) Cosgrave, Anna Siobhan (United [...] Read More
14 December 2006
14 December, 2006 in FENS News FENS Forum 2010 in Amsterdam At the FENS Governing Council Meeting on December 9/10, 2006 in Edinburgh the site for the FENS Forum 2010 was chosen. The Forum 2010 will be held in Amsterdam (Netherlands) from July 3 to 7, 2010. The Chair of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) [...] Read More
07 December 2006
07 December, 2006 in FENS News Sten Grillner has recently published a paper addressing the circuit doctrine: the logic of the core units of neuronal circuitry that control animal behavior. Biological Pattern Generation: The Cellular and Computational Logic of Networks in MotionGrillner SNeuron, Volume 52, Issue 5, p751–766, 7 December 2006 In 1900, Ramón y Cajal [...] Read More
07 November 2006
07 November, 2006 in FENS News EJN full archive now available online: 1989 ? present Did you know that every issue of EJN is now available to access online at Blackwell Synergy, from volume 1, issue 1 (January 1989)? As a member of a FENS-affiliated society you are entitled to free full access to every [...] Read More
06 November 2006
06 November, 2006 in FENS News Consensus Document on European Brain Research The Past President Tamas Freund and the past Secretary-General Monica Di Luca are co-authors of the "Consensus Document on European Brain Research". This document is now published as a supplement to the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery , and Psychiatry (August 2006, Vol. 77). [...] Read More
11 September 2006
11 September, 2006 in FENS News IBROs Science Advisory Programme The International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) is pleased to announce its Science Advisory Programme (ISAP), which provides expert advisory boards to review neuroscience institutions around the world. Recognizing that informed peer review is one of the most effective systems for setting standards of excellence in [...] Read More
11 August 2006
11 August, 2006 in FENS News New FENS Officers took office in Vienna During the FENS Forum in Vienna the new FENS President Richard Morris (UK) took office for the period of 2006 – 2008. Tamas Freund (Hungary) stepped down, but will serve FENS for a period of another two years as Past President. Helmut [...] Read More
01 August 2006
01 August, 2006 in Neuroscience News The document highlights how brain disease, psychiatric and neurologic disease combined, represents a considerable social and economic burden in Europe. Consensus Document on European Brain ResearchOlesen J, Baker M, Freund T, Di Luca M, Mendlewicz J, Ragan I and Westphal MJ Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2006;77:i1-i49August 2006 Abstract Brain disease psychiatric and neurologic [...] Read More
26 July 2006
26 July, 2006 in FENS News Slovak Society for Neuroscience joined FENS! We are happy to welcome the Slovak Society for Neuroscience in the FENS. FENS is now composed of 33 member societies. Read More