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New Year message from Professor Barry Everitt F.R.S., President of FENS

14 December 2017

14 December, 2017 in FENS News The New Year approaches and it is a very significant one for us: 2018 is the 20th anniversary year of the founding of FENS. The Founding Charter was signed at the first FENS Forum in Berlin in 1998 by the presidents of national neuroscience societies and the European Brain [...] Read More

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History online project grant winners 2017 announced

08 December 2017

08 December, 2017 in FENS News FENS congratulates the History online project grant winners for the year 2017. Congratulations to the 2017 History Online Project Grant Awardees! The FENS History Committee organises annual calls for European History of Neuroscience Projects, to document the history and development of neuroscience in Europe. The best projects are selected for support of up [...] Read More

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FENS member societies gathered in Brussels for the annual Governing Council

30 November 2017

30 November, 2017 in FENS News FENS held its Governing Council on 27-28 November 2017 at the University Foundation in Brussels. Among other issues, the outcomes of the FENS Regional Meeting held from 20-23  September 2017 in Pécs, Hungary were presented and members also discussed preparations for the FENS Forum 2018 which will take place [...] Read More

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EJN Call for Papers for Special Issue on Addiction

24 October 2017

24 October, 2017 in FENS News Submit your papers to The European Journal of Neuroscience. Submission Deadline: 1 March 2018. SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS Addiction Guest Editors: Michel Barrot (University of Strasbourg, France), Antonello Bonci (National Institute of Drug Abuse, USA), Barry Everitt (University of Cambridge, UK) & Rita Goldstein (Mount Sinai, USA) Estimated [...] Read More

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New history project available online

19 October 2017

19 October, 2017 in FENS News "Neuroscience in British literature" by Roni Tibon, Ph.D is now available on the History online platform. The project "Neuroscience in British Literature by Roni Tibon, Ph.D (Newton International Fellow at the MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK) was awarded in 2016 and it is now available [...] Read More

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Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2018 announced

11 September 2017

11 September, 2017 in FENS News The Boehringer Ingelheim FENS Research Award 2018 has been awarded to Dr. David Dupret for his research on the dynamics of neuronal assemblies during memory processes. David Dupret is leading a research programme at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Brain Network Dynamics Unit in the University of Oxford. His research [...] Read More

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EJN Featured article on Parkinson’s disease

20 July 2017

20 July, 2017 in FENS News ‘Direct and indirect effects of attention and visual function on gait impairment in Parkinson's disease: influence of task and turning’ by Stuart et al. This study revealed that visual function did not significantly account for changes to gait parameters in Parkinson's disease patients, but rather worked indirectly through attention, [...] Read More

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The recipient of the 11th IBRO Kemali Prize has been announced

03 July 2017

03 July, 2017 in FENS News Warm congratulations to Dr. Guillermina López-Bendito, Senior Scientist at the Instituto de Neurociencias, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Alicante, Spain. A FENS-Kavli Scholar since 2014 and an EMBO Young Investigator since 2013, Dr. López-Bendito has been awarded with the 11th IBRO Kemali Prize [...] Read More