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The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Brain Sciences series
15–30 Jul 2021
Neuroscience, Brain Science, Neurology
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Welcome from the Chair
- Clinical Neuroscience
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Systems Neuroscience
- Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
- Developmental Neuroscience
- Behavioral Neuroscience
- Environmental Neuroscience
All accepted file submissions will be published in the proceedings of the conference, and authors are invited to elaborate their abstracts into full manuscripts that will be considered for publication in Brain Sciences, with a 20% discount on the APC. Brain Sciences is an open access journal from MDPI, in the field of neuroscience. The journal is indexed in the Sciences Citation Indexing Expended (SCIE IF=3.394), Scopus, and other databases. Citations are available in PubMed; full-text archived in PubMed Central (PMC). Please visit the following website for more information.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/brainsci
Important Dates
• Abstract Submission: 30 April 2021
• Notification of Acceptance: 15 May 2021
• Submission of Full Files: 1 June 2021
• Conference Date: 15–30 July 2021
You are welcome both to upload and present your work and to attend the conference completely free of charge.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions.
Best wishes,
Stephen D. Meriney, PhD
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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us:
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Sammy Tian
Ms. Stacy Luo
Ms. Nora Zhang
Dr. Ana Sanchis
E-Mail: iecbs2021@mdpi.com
Conference chair
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Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Stephen D. Meriney completed his PhD in Physiology/Neuroscience at the University of Connecticut with Dr. Guillermo Pilar in 1986, where he studied the parasympathetic control of intrinsic eye muscles. He then moved to the Jerry Lewis Neuromuscular Research Centre at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a postdoctoral fellow, and then became an assistant research physiologist there, with Dr. Alan Grinnell, and studied voltage-gated calcium channels and synaptic mechanisms at the neuromuscular junction. He has been at the University of Pittsburgh since 1993, where he is currently a Professor, and Chair of the Department of Neuroscience, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the journal Brain Sciences.
Conference Committee
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Research Institute of Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare, Pomona, USA
Caroline Schnakers has been working as a clinical scientist in the neurorehabilitation field for the past 15 years. Her research focus is on brain-injured patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DOC) and, more particularly, on the assessment of their brain activity and cognitive functions using behavioral, electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques. She has published more than 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as Neurology, Annals of Neurology, Nature Reviews Neurology and Lancet. Currently, she serves as the chair of the Special Interest Group on DOC for the International Brain Injury Association (~200 members) and she is actively involved in the Curing Coma Campaign. At present, Schnakers works as an assistant director at the Research Institute of Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare (Pomona, CA).
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Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Languages and Literatures, Communication, Education and Society, University of Udine, Italy
Cosimo Urgesi is Associate Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Udine and Researcher of Developmental Neuropsychology at the Scientific Institute (IRCCS) Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini (Lecco). After gaining a degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy), he obtained in 2006 a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Verona (Italy), where he conducted research on body and action representations using behavioral and brain stimulation paradigms. Afterward, he moved to the University of Udine (Italy) for a two-year post-doctorate on the neuropsychological and neuropsychiatric evaluation of adult patients with brain tumors and on the Italian adaptation and standardization of the battery NEPSY-II for the neuropsychological evaluation of children aged 3–16 years. He then joined the University of Udine as Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience, establishing the Body Lab UdinE, (BLUE) in collaboration with the University of Udine the Scientific Institute (IRCCS) Eugenio Medea thanks to funding from the Italian Ministry of Health and Italian Ministry of University and Research, the European Commission and other national and international private agencies. After a 2-year Marie Curie intra-European fellowship at Bangor University (Wales), he is now back at the University of Udine. BLUE is aimed at integrating basic cognitive neuroscience research and clinical–rehabilitative studies for the neuropsychological and neurophysiologic evaluation of neurological and mental disorders. Research interests include: the neural basis and development of corporeal and self knowledge and the neural mechanisms and development of action prediction and social perception. Since 2004, he has authored more than 90 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals, five book chapters and four lay-people articles.
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Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, and Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, Portugal,
Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden
Prof Susana Pinto is a Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation physician currently working in Uppsala, Sweden (Uppsala University Hospital). She has previously worked in Umeå, Sweden (Umeå University Hospital), in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi) and in Lisbon, Portugal (Hospital de Santa Maria). She is an Associate Professor in Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, having previously taught Anatomy as an invited assistant at the NOVA Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal. As she is interested in the neurological field, she has published about 100 articles in peer-reviewed international journals, doing research associated with Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal, and serving as a reviewer for international journals. She is particularly interested in neurodegenerative disorders, neuro and pulmonary rehabilitation, neurophysiology, telemedicine and new technologies, including the use of biosensors, robotics, virtual reality, electrical and magnetic stimulation.
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Dr. Corrado Romano is a graduate in Medicine and Surgery from the Catholic University of Sacred Heart School of Medicine and Surgery, Italy. His scientific background is also focused on pediatrics and medical genetics. He has been working in the Oasi Research Institute-IRCCS at Troina for many years; in 2003, he became the Head of the Unit of Pediatrics and Medical Genetics, and in 2017, the Head of the Laboratory of Medical Genetics and of the Department of Laboratories at the same center. He was elected President of the local IRB for the term 2019–2022 on 22 July 2019. His scientific work is focused on medical genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders, contributing to the delineation of new genetic syndromes linked to neurodevelopmental disorders, such as 17q21.31 deletion, 15ql3.3 deletion, 1q21.1 deletion, 2q23.1 deletion, 16p12.1 deletion, 7ql1.23 duplication, and the haploinsufficiency of ADNP, CHD8, DYRK1A, NAA15, DDX3X, ACTL6B, ADGRB3, FBX011, CSDE1 and TANC2 genes. He has published more than 240 articles in international peer-reviewed journals with more than 8000 total citations, as well as contributed as an Associate Editor for the journals Frontiers in Pediatrics, Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Genetics and Brain Sciences. He has also been invited as Chairman and Speaker in several national and international meetings. Since 2005, he has held, in Troina, with an International Scientific Committee, an International Meeting on the Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, which has reached its 14th Edition.
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Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA
Dr. Kevin Krull is a full member of the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology and Cancer Control and the Department of Psychology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, where he also holds the Endowed Chair in Cancer Survivorship. He has training in cognitive neuroscience, biological psychology, and clinical psychology. His research includes lifespan and translational approaches to brain development, functional brain outcomes, and interventions in cancer survivors. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is the recipient of numerous research grants from the National Institutes of Health and various foundations.
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Department of Neurosurgery, Centre for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, Prince of Wales Private Hospital, Sydney 2000, Australia
Mike grew up in a small town in Oklahoma, and after attending medical school at Columbia University in New York, he completed his neurosurgery training at the University of California in San Francisco. After completing a fellowship in Sydney, Australia, he served as Director of the Brain Tumor Center at the University of Oklahoma for 7 years. He has authored over 250 scientific publications and 4 textbooks. He moved to Sydney in 2018, and founded Omniscient Neurotechnology, an artificial intelligence startup company aimed at radically accelerating the evolution of our understanding of human brain disease and mental illness, and bringing these technologies to the clinic more rapidly.
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Department of Neuroscience, Paediatric Headache Center, Bambino Gesù Children Hospital, Italy.
Centre for Sensory-Motor Interaction, Aalborg University, Denmark.
Massimiliano Valeriani currently works at the Department of Neurosciences, Ospedale Bambino Gesù, where he directs the Neurology Ward Unit. His scientific activity is focused on headaches, especially in children and adolescents, and clinical neurophysiology of the somatosensory system and pain. He is a professor at the Aalborg University. He published more than 200 papers in international journals and book chapters. He is Chief Editor of Pain Research and Management (Hindawi) and President of the Italian Society of Psychophysiology and Cognitive Neurosciences. His current H index is 41 (Scopus).
Invited Speakers
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Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Cognitive and neurophysiological updates on developmental dyscalculia and dyslexia. Recent research on dyslexia in the comorbidity perspective.
Pierluigi Zoccolotti is Professor of General Psychology at the Department of Psychology of the Sapienza University of Rome where he teaches "Learning disabilities" in the master course in "Cognitive Neuroscience". Since the late 1990s his research has focused on developmental deficits in reading and writing. This theme has been examined in studies ranging from perception to eye movements and psycholinguistics.
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Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
Dyscalculia: where we are, and where we need to go.
Brian Butterworth is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology at University College, London and author of the best-selling popular science book, The Mathematical Brain. He has taught at Cambridge University and holds visiting appointments at Melbourne University and National Cheng Chi University (Taipei). He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2002. He is currently working with colleagues on the neuroscience and the genetics of mathematical abilities and disabilities. He co-organised the 2017 Royal Society meeting, The origins of numerical abilities. His latest book, Dyscalculia: from science to education was published in English in 2019 and in Italian in 2021.
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Department of Neuroscience, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Brain dynamics across reading development in children with typical reading skills and dyslexia.
During her PhD at KU Leuven Maaike Vandermosten worked in an interdisciplinary context to gain expertise in the many aspects of reading, speech processing as well as neuroimaging techniques. During her postdoc, she extended her knowledge towards neurodevelopmental and neuroplasticity aspects of language learning. She conducted research stays at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), University of Geneva and at the University of Maastricht. In 2016, she received the Rebecca Sandak young investigator award, which is a prestigious award in the field of reading research. Since 2017, she is a tenure track professor at KULeuven (Department of Neurosciences), during which she further established her research line on dyslexia and extended her research towards aphasia. The general aim of her ongoing projects is to investigate neuroplasticity in relation to written and oral language learning.
IECBS2021 Live Session Recording
Cognitive and Neurophysiological Updates on Developmental Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
IECBS2021 Live Session Information
During the e-conference, one live session will be scheduled. We have invited some speakers to share their latest research. During our live session, the participants will have the chance to ask questions at the end of each presentation.
The live session is free for everyone. However, the number of participants to the live session is limited, but the recording will be made available on Sciforum shortly afterwards. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.
If you are interested in attending, please register in advance by clicking the "Webinar Registration" buttons which are showing in below the live session program.
IECBS2021 Live Session Program
Cognitive and Neurophysiological Updates on Developmental Dyslexia and Dyscalculia
Date: 19 July 2021
Time: 10:00am (CEST) | 4:00pm (CST Asia)
Program:
Speaker |
Presentation Topic |
Time (CEST) |
Conference Chair Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Zoccolotti |
Opening Speech: Cognitive and Neurophysiological Updates on Developmental Dyscalculia and Dyslexia |
10:00am – 10:05am |
Invited speaker Prof. Dr Brian Butterworth
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Dyscalculia: Where We Are, and Where We Need to Go |
10:05am – 10:35am |
Conference Chair Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Zoccolotti |
Recent Research on Dyslexia in the Comorbidity Perspective |
10:35am – 11:05am |
Invited speaker Prof. Dr. Maaike Vandermosten |
Brain Dynamics Across Reading Development in Children with Typical Reading Skills and Dyslexia |
11:05am – 11:35am |
Q&A Session |
11:35am-11:55am |
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Conference Chair Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Zoccolotti |
Live session closing |
11:55am-12:00am |
Instructions for Authors
The registration for this conference is FREE and the works selected for their presentation on the conference will be published as conference proceedings with no cost.
Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "Start New Submission" function once logged into system. There is no limit of abstracts presented by one author.
- Scholars interested in participating within the conference can submit their abstract online on this website until 30 April 2021. The abstract submitted should be about 200-word in English - the word limits are minimum 150 words and maximum 250 words.
- The Conference Committee will evaluate the abstracts received and decide whether the contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for conference. All the authors will be notified about the acceptance of their works by 15 May 2021.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the authors will be asked to submit an extended manuscript (download the word template here and latex template here) optionally along with a poster and/or PowerPoint presentation of his/her paper (only PDF), up to the full manuscript submission deadline of 1 June 2021.
- The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available at https://sciforum.net/conference/IECBS2021 for discussion during the time of the conference, 15–30 July 2021, and will be published in Journal Proceedings.
Conference Paper
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
First page:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses (institutional addresses preferred)
- Abstract (200–250 words)
- Keywords
Sections:
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
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- Paper Length: The conference proceedings paper should not be longer than 6 pages. The conference manuscript should be as concise as possible.
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Presentation Poster or Slides
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List of accepted submissions (29)
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sciforum-044956 | Differential of voluntary and involuntary movements |
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Involuntary movements include the broad class of movement disorders, including (A) movement disorders with identified pathophysiology and (B) functional movement disorders, a wide variety of movements that may or may not resemble movement disorders with identified pathophysiology. Voluntary movements include (A) motions deliberately performed by persons to express exuberance such as applause and zaghrouta and (B) motions deliberately performed by persons to deceive others, such as (A) malingering, the fabrication of actions in order to avoid jail, work, school, and to obtain financial and other rewards, and (B) Münchausen syndrome, the fabrication of symptoms and signs to seek medical attention and treatment. Identification of functional movement disorders and fabricated voluntary movements is crucial to avoid providing inappropriate interventions, such as medications and surgeries with significant risks and no beneficial effects. Electrophysiological and motion measurements may facilitate the identification of voluntary movements. For example, a Bereitschaftspotential, a surface-negative electrical brain potential identified on electroencephalograph (EGG), can identify self-initiated voluntary acts.
Neuroscientists can benefit from the proposed algorithm to differentiate voluntary and involuntary movements particularly in emergent situations to determine when interventions are required and contraindicated. |
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sciforum-045028 | Features of the psychomotor coordination in adolescents with mental disorders in remission | , , , | N/A |
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The imbalance between the speed and accuracy of cognitive-motor operations can lead to the formation of abnormal behavioral programs fraught with serious negative consequences for the individual. For successful correction and prevention of social disadaptation in adolescents with nervous and mental diseases and functional disorders in mental sphere in general education schools, the peculiarities of their psychomotor activity should be taken into account. We measured some parameters of psychomotor coordination in adolescents, students of a specialized school for psychiatric patients in remission. Based on their medical records, these students were divided into two groups: adolescents with neuropsychiatric diagnoses and sequelae of organic brain damage (n = 37) and adolescents with mental disorders without organic brain damage (n = 28). The control group consisted of healthy adolescents from a secondary school (n = 70). During simple motor tests, the trajectory of horizontal movement of the arm "from elbow to fingers" was recorded. During cyclic (right – left) movements of the lever within the range marked by external light markers, adolescents with mental disorders from both groups showed higher speed, but poorer accuracy and smoothness of movements than healthy participants. The latencies of the sensorimotor response to light and acoustic stimuli in adolescents with mental disorders without organic brain damage were longer than in the control group. These results are included in a comprehensive database for large-scale health monitoring in schoolchildren. |
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sciforum-045143 | Towards advanced ultrasound image analysis by combining radiomics and artificial intelligence in brain tumors |
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Background Intraoperative ultrasound (ioUS) images of brain tumors contain information that has not yet been exploited. The present work aims to analyze images in both B-mode and strain-elastography using techniques based on artificial intelligence and radiomics. We pretend to assess the capacity for differentiating glioblastomas (GBM) from solitary brain metastases (SBM) and also to assess the ability to predict the overall survival (OS) in GBM. Methods We performed a retrospective analysis of patients who underwent craniotomy between March 2018 to June 2020 with GBM and SBM diagnoses. Cases with an ioUS study were included. In the first group of patients, an analysis based on deep learning was performed. An existing neural network (Inception V3) was used to classify tumors into GBM and SBM. The models were evaluated using the area under the curve (AUC), classification accuracy, and precision. In the second group, radiomic features from the tumor region were extracted. Radiomic features associated with OS were selected employing univariate correlations. Then, a survival analysis was conducted using Cox regression. Results For the classification task, a total of 36 patients were included. 26 GBM and 10 SBM. Models were built using a total of 812 ultrasound images. For B-mode, AUC and accuracy values of the classification algorithms ranged from 0.790 to 0.943 and from 72 to 89 % respectively. For elastography, AUC and accuracy values ranged from 0.847 to 0.985 and from 79 to 95 % respectively. Sixteen patients were available for the survival analysis. A total of 52 radiomic features were extracted. Two texture features from B-mode (Conventional mean and GLZLM_SZLGE) and one texture feature from strain-elastography (GLZLM_LZHGE) were significantly associated with OS. Conclusion Automated processing of ioUS images through deep learning can generate high-precision classification algorithms. Radiomic tumor region features in B-mode and elastography appear to be significantly associated with OS in GBM. |
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sciforum-045232 | Writing Units or Decades First in Two Digit Numbers Dictation Task: The Case of Arabic an Inverted Language. | , |
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In Arabic, two-digit numbers are read from right to left, i.e. the unit digit precedes the decade digit (24 = four and twenty) in accordance to the text reading and writing direction but opposite to the math direction (left-to-right). The current study investigated the effect of the syntactic representation of numbers in Arabic on the task of transcoding two-digit numbers from dictation. The study participants were primary, junior-high and high school pupils in addition to higher education students with Arabic as their first language. They performed transcoding task, namely writing two-digit numbers from dictation. Units first\decades first writing patterns were collected depending on the differential syntactics structure evident in the two-digit number dictated (Teens numbers-units first, Identical units and decades- units first, Whole tens- decades firs, the rest remaining two-digit numbers-units first). The findings reveal that in general Arabic speakers adopt decades first writing pattern of two-digit numbers especially when it is consistent with syntactic structure of two-digit numbers as in whole tens. This first decade writing pattern becomes more evident in junior-high school, high school and higher education since the proficiency and skills in math, second and third languages improves. However, this pattern is modulated depending on a complexity of the units and decades structure that requires more working memory capacity. This complexity is more pronounced in two-digit numbers, where the numerical syntactic structure is more evident than in numbers with a less prominent numerical syntactic structure (numbers 19-12) or in identical units and decades numbers compared to the remaining two-digit numbers category (with an evident syntactic structure of units and decades). Additionally, influences were claimed because of the consistency or inconsistency between the reading direction of text (Right-to-Left), two-digit numbers reading (Right-to-Left) in Arabic and math writing direction taught (Left-to-Right) placing less or more load on working memory. |
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sciforum-045339 | Muscle activity during different stepping modes in decerebrate cat | , , | N/A |
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The basement of the vertebrate motor system is flexor reflex whilst the extensor thrust supposed to be an optional factor for the stepping. But different forms of stepping (in opposite directions) could be differently depending upon it, since the sensory input is crucial for the stepping. The most investigated is forward stepping (FW) being the most “learned” in both phylogeny and ontogeny. In opposite, the backward (BW) stepping is associated with mostly the specific forms of behavioral activity. We compared an EMG activity of several hindlimb muscles moved the hip (iliopsoas, IP, sartorius (SR), adductor magnus (AM), biceps femoris posterior (BFP)), knee (rectus femoris (RF), vastus medialis (VM)), and ankle (tibialis anterior (TA), gastrocnemius medialis (GM), soleus (SL)) joints, in decerebrate cats stepped under epidural electrical stimulation. For most cats, an activity of hip flexors (IP, SR) was lower, hip extensors (AM, BFP) – higher, knee extensors (RF and VM) – lower, ankle flexor (TA) – lower, ankle extensor (GM) – higher for BW stepping than for FW stepping. For all muscles but SR (with minimal sample size) differences were statistically significant (Wilcoxon test). Only in SL, no clear predominance for any stepping mode was obtained. These data point out to different balance in flexion and extension during stepping in opposite directions. |
Event Awards
Session | Title | Authors | Awards |
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Cognitive Neuroscience |
Development of Parkinson's Dementia Prediction Model Using Regression with Optimal Scale | Best Paper Award | |
Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience |
Novel interactions between Mas and Angiotensin receptors and their functionality modulatory role for the brain RAS | Best Poster Award |
To acknowledge the support of the conference esteemed authors and recognize their outstanding scientific accomplishments, we are pleased to launch the Best Paper Award, and Best Poster Award.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 1
Best paper award 500 CHF : The Best Paper Award is given for the paper judged to make the most significant contribution to the conference.Number of Awards Available: 1
Best poster award 500 CHF: The Best Poster Award has been established to recognize the scientific merit exhibited in poster presentation and preparation (For one candidates, with videos uploaded).Terms and Conditions:
Best Paper Award
As a sponsor, Brain Sciences would like to award the best paper as elected by all the conference committee. The award will consist of 500 Swiss Francs. We look forward to posting your contributions.
Criteria for Evaluation of Best Paper Award:
Criteria
- Full paper must be submitted to IECBS 2021;
- Originality/Novelty of the paper;
- Significance of Content;
- Scientific Soundness;
- Interest to the readers;
- English language and style.
Evaluation
- Each Evaluation Committee member will give an assessment for each applicant in terms of the criteria outlined above;
- Total score for each presentation will be ranked, from highest to lowest;
- If two or more authors get the same score, further evaluation will be carried out;
- All decisions made by the Evaluation Committee are final.
Best Poster Award
As a sponsor, Brain Sciences would like to grants an award (500 Swiss Francs) for the best poster presented at the conference. This prize is awarded by a jury to the best designed poster presented at the conference.
Posters should have the following information.
- Title (with authors and affiliations)
- Introduction / Objectives / Aims
- Methods
- Results
- Conclusions
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Contact information
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