The 4th International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences
the chair
Dear colleagues,
It is our pleasure to invite you to join the 4th International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences (IECBS 2024) after the strong success of the previous annual online conference. IECBS 2024 will be held online from 23 to 25 October 2024.
The field of neuroscience is one of the most important frontiers in biomedical studies, as many of the details that control brain function are still not well understood. This makes the study of the nervous system very exciting and fast moving. This conference will address a variety of research topics which reflect some of the current areas of focus. Topics of the conference will be organized around the following sessions:
S1. Behavioral Neuroscience
S2. Systems Neuroscience
S3. Neurotechnology and Neuroimaging
S4. Neuropsychology
S5. Neurodegenerative Diseases
S6. Cognitive Neuroscience
S7. Clinical Neuroscience
S8. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
S9. Neurorehabilitation
The scope of this online conference is to bring together well-known worldwide experts who are currently working on brain sciences and to provide an online forum for presenting and discussing new results.
All accepted abstracts will be published on the conference website. You are required to submit an abstract (200 – 250 words). Please see the abstract guidelines in "Instructions for Authors".
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to join us at the 4th International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences (IECBS 2024).
We look forward to your contributions.
Sincerely,
Prof. Dr. Stephen D. Meriney
Chair of the 4th International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences
Meet the Event Chair
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineJul 23, 2024
- Abstract acceptance notificationAug 23, 2024
- Registration end dateOct 20, 2024
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Gerry Leisman
Movement and Cognition Laboratory, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences Haifa University, Haifa, Israel, Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of the Medical Sciences of Havana, Havana, Cuba;
Gerry Leisman is an Israeli neuroscientist who studies complex systems theory and developmental cognitive neuroscience in the fetus, newborn, and developing child. He has published significantly on developmental aspects of brain plasticity, neurorehabilitation, and dynamic brain networks. His work has linked physics, mathematics, and other disciplines to better understand developmental brain function and malfunction, advancing theoretical frameworks, and practical applications in Medicine, Psychology, and Education. He studied in the Faculty of Medicine at Manchester University, additionally earning a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering from Union University in 1979. He is a Full Professor and Research Fellow at the University of Haifa’s Movement and Cognition laboratory and a Professor of Neurology at the University of the Medical Sciences, Resonance Therapeutics Laboratory at the Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Havana Cuba.
Prof. Audrey Bowen
Manchester Centre for Health Psychology and Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;
Audrey Bowen is Professor of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests are in developing the evidence base for neurorehabilitation, specialising in post-stroke cognitive and communication difficulties. A key strength of Audrey’s research is patient, carer and public involvement in research (PCPI). Audrey leads the cross-cutting, multidisciplinary theme ‘Neurorehabilitation and Living with Disability’ within the Geoffrey Jefferson Brain Research Centre, a collaboration between The Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Northern Care Alliance & University of Manchester. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4075-1215
Dr. Peii Chen
Kessler Foundation, Center for Stroke Rehabilitation Research, 1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, New Jersey, 07052, USA, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 183 South Orange Avenue, Suite F-1560, Newark, New Jersey, 07101, USA;
Peii Chen, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at Kessler Foundation’s Center for Stroke Rehabilitation Research, the Intellectual Property Liaison at Kessler Foundation, and a Research Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Rutgers University’s New Jersey Medical School. Her work is focused on spatial neglect, its related disorders, and its impacts on the lives of individuals with spatial neglect. Dr. Chen is the lead developer of the Kessler Foundation Neglect Assessment Process (KF-NAP®), Prism Adaptation Treatment (KF-PAT®), Spatial Re-training Therapy (KF-SRT®), Eye Movement Exercise (KF-EME™), and the 3s Spreadsheet Test. In addition to research and development activities, Dr. Chen advocates meaningful and effective knowledge translation via professional training and technology transfer to improve spatial neglect care.
Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Zoccolotti
Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy;
Assoc. Prof. Tracy Butler
Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA;
Dr. Tracy Butler is a neurologist and neuroscientist with clinical subspecialty training in behavioral neurology and epilepsy and research fellowship training in functional and structural neuroimaging. An Associate Professor of Neurology in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, she is the medical director of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Brain Health Imaging Institute (BHII), where she oversees subject assessment and clinical trials of therapies and neuroimage biomarkers of aging and neurodegeneration. Her research uses multimodal positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) neuroimaging and complementary methods to better understand the biological basis of neuropsychiatric disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, traumatic brain injury, and normal aging, focusing on pathophysiologic overlap among these conditions such as hormonal dysregulation, neuroinflammation and brain toxic protein (tau and amyloid) accumulation. Today she will give a talk on the subject of Lewy Body Dementia, including discussion of an exciting new clinical development in the diagnosis of Lewy Body Disease: We now have available to us a skin test that can help determine this diagnosis with remarkably high sensitivity and specificity.
Prof. Dr. Patricia A. Broderick
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, CUNY School of Medicine, The City College of New York, New York, NY 10031, USA, Adjunct Professor in Neurology, NYU Langone Medical Center & Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, New York, NY 10016, USA;
Dr. Prof. Patricia A. Broderick PhD is a Full and Tenured Medical Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Science at the City University of New York Medical School, CCNY, USA. Patricia serves as CUNY Graduate Faculty in Psychology and Biology. Patricia earned her doctoral degree in Pharmacology at the St. John’s University College of Arts and Sciences where she discovered that the neurotransmitter, serotonin, has an active role in the neuronal balance of lithium therapy for bipolar illness. Patricia was then recruited by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Depts. Psychiatry and Neuroscience to serve as Postdoctoral Fellow and with her expertise in atomic absorption spectrophotometry and fluorescence spectroscopy, Patricia wedded behavior directly to the brain electronically and invented the BRODERICK PROBE® nanoprobe biosensor which bears her father’s name. Einstein was the first to patent her work! The work continued at Cornell Medical Center, upstate, focusing on cognition and hypoxia as Research Fellow. Then, her innovative brain/sensing research was recruited by the NYU Medical Center, Dept. Neurology and Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and Patricia was appointed as Adjunct Professor while continuing her CUNY Medical School work in tandem.
Intraoperative studies of the epilepsy patient, under Institutional Review Board, approval, translated Patricia’s work to the clinic! The Dept. of Anesthesiology recruited Patricia to see inside the brain to heal postoperative memory loss. She founded the Broderick Brain Foundation and Eazysense Nanotechnologies Inc. which hold considerably valued Patents and Trademarks. Multiple editorial boards, podcasts and prolific publications are available. No stranger to the airways, Patricia serves public health as educator in the brain and electronic sciences every day. YouTube: Eazysense Nanotechnology.com@eazysense12345.
Ready now, on the internet, is her new book Neuroimaging Sensing Biochemistry in the Brain. Jenny Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd. Singapore
- S1. Behavioral Neuroscience
- S2. Systems Neuroscience
- S3. Neurotechnology and Neuroimaging
- S4. Neuropsychology
- S5. Neurodegenerative Diseases
Sponsors and Partners
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On behalf of the conference organizing committee, we would like to express our appreciation to all the participants for your invaluable contributions to the 4th International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences (IECBS 2024). We are genuinely thrilled with the diverse and engaged scholars who shared their knowledge and showcased impactful research. Your dedication has been instrumental in the great success of this conference!
Live session recordings are available here.
The poster gallery is available here.
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the Special Issue published in Brain Sciences (ISSN: 2076-3425, IF 2.7), with a 20% discount on the publication fee. Special Issue information: "Selected Papers from the 4th International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/brainsci/special_issues/1J47XZ11CO). All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
Please note if you have IOAP/association discounts, conference discounts will be combined with IOAP/association discounts. Conference discounts cannot be combined with reviewer vouchers.
Special Issue submission deadline: 25 March 2025.
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of The 4th International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences in the Biology and Life Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9976), if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference. Publication of the proceedings will be free of charge. Authors are asked to disclose that it is a proceeding paper of the IECBS 2024 conference paper in their cover letter. Carefully read the rules outlined in the 'Instructions for Authors' on the journal’s website and ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines.
Proceedings paper submission deadline: 11 December 2024.
More Info: https://sciforum.net/event/iecbs2024#?section=#Publication_Opportunity
On behalf of the chairs of IECBS 2024, we are pleased to announce the winners of the Best Oral Presentation Awards and Best Poster Awards.
The Best Oral Presentation Awards have been awarded to
- sciforum-098369, "Mapping the effect of psycholinguistic variables on picture naming: insights from an FDG-PET study on neurodegenerative diseases", Francesca Conca, Valentina Esposito, Cristina Polito, Gaia Santi, Daniela Gibbons, Silvia Caminiti, Cecilia Boccalini, Carmen Morinelli, Valentina Berti, Salvatore Mazzeo, Valentina Bessi, Alessandra Marcone, Sandro Iannaccone, Sandro Sorbi, Daniela Perani, Stefano Cappa, Eleonora Catricalà
- sciforum-105060, "Maraviroc, a CCR5 chemokine blocker, enhanced corticosterone release in a post-traumatic stress disorder model in rats: the effects of chronic stress and fear on the hippocampal CCR5/RANTES axis.", Jose Joaquin Merino, Vilma Muñetón-Gómez, María Angeles Pérez-Izquierdo, María Loscertales
- sciforum-098227, "Distinct Huntingtin’s protein aggregates differently impact viability and motility in C. elegans", Ephraim Chidi Ezeigbo, Justin Legleiter
The Best Poster Awards have been awarded to
- sciforum-101859, "Therapeutic potential of Centella asiatica in the intergenerational effect of childhood stress on depressive-like behaviors", Amanda Gollo Bertollo, Kelli Maria Kreuz, Jesiel de Medeiros, Maiqueli Eduarda Dama Mingoti, Brunna Varela da Silva, Laysa Anacleto Schuh, Marina Kipper, Paula Dallagnol, Rafael Antonio Narzeti, Zuleide Maria Ignácio
- sciforum-098862, "EFFECT OF KNEE JOINT FIXATION ON HUMAN POSTURAL STABILITY", Margarita Nikulina, Anna Shulman, Maksim Baltin, Alexandr Eremeev, Anton Eremeev, Tatyana Baltina
- sciforum-101884, “Neuroprotective Epigenetic and DNA-Damage-Repairing Molecular Mechanisms of Centella Asiatica Extract (CAE) on Experimentally Induced Parkinsonism in Aged Sprague--Dawley Rats", Dr Kumar Ponnusamy, Siddarth Srigokul Kumar, Sripriyanka Kumar
DAY 1
Session 5. Neurodegenerative Diseases
Session 3. Neurotechnology and Neuroimaging
Session 4. Neuropsychology
Session 9. Neurorehabilitation
DAY 2
Session 1. Behavioral Neuroscience
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Session 7. Clinical Neuroscience
Session 8. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
DAY 3
Session 6. Cognitive Neuroscience
Session 2. Systems Neuroscience
Ms. Aria Chen
Ms. Jasmine Li
Ms. Wong Jolin
Ms. Skyler Wu
Email: iecbs2024@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.