Call for Abstracts: 14th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research
Sunday 21 through Thursday 25 April 2013 Orlando, Florida. Satellite Meetings will be held Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April 2013.
Abstracts submission deadline: 12 September 2012. All abstracts must be submitted online.
Call for Papers: Child Development and Dyslexia
November 15-17, 2012 Larnaca, Cyprus
Abstract submission: till 15 July 2012
An International Symposium to bring together a group of researchers and other parties who have an interest in various aspects of learning difficulty in children.
We are pleased to invite you to attend the international symposium entitled "Child Development and Dyslexia" at the Lordos Beach Hotel in Larnaca, Cyprus on November 15-17, 2012.
The symposium will cover topics related to recent advances in dyslexia using psychology, cognitive science, developmental science, clinical neuroscience, brain imaging, neurophysiology, and information technology. Our aim is to bring together researchers, individuals and organizations who have interest in various aspects of learning difficulty in children.
For academic inquiries related to the symposium, please contact:
Prof. Andreas Ioannides
Lab. for Human Brain Dynamics, AAI Scientific Cultural Services Ltd.
Galaxias Centre Office 501
33 Arch Markarios III Avenue
Nicosia 1065
Cyprus
Tel: +357 22 460228 , Fax: +357 22 028060
Email: events@aaiscs.com
Web site: http://www.aaiscs.com/LHBD
Call for Papers: Interactive Technologies and Games: Education, Health and Disability 2012 (ITAG)
The “Interactive Technologies and Games: Education, Health and Disability 2012″ (ITAG) conference takes place this year on 23-24 October 2012 at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
The aim of the conference is to bring together academics and practitioners working with interactive technologies to explore and innovate within the areas of Education, Health and Disability. We have a particular focus on the use of gaming hardware and software to implement accessible solutions, interaction design using new input/output devices and the increasing impact of ubiquitous computing on our everyday well being.
The conference provides an excellent opportunity to showcase practice and to mainstream research ideas and outcomes. It introduces a wider audience to key findings and products from research and illustrates how practice feeds back into and informs research. The conference creates a forum for two-way communication between the academic and practitioner communities and particularly welcomes user led presentations and workshops.
The programme includes presentations of papers, workshops, and an exhibition space for demonstrations and posters. This event is held in partnership with GameCity – the World’s best-loved videogame festival (http://gamecity.org/) and delegates are welcome to attend all GameCity events including the opening drinks reception.
Scope
As guidance to participants on scope of papers and activities we state that: ‘Education’ includes both compulsory and post-compulsory education; ‘Disability’ includes physical, sensory and cognitive impairment; and the impact of interactive technologies and games on health and well-being is also a focus of this conference. An emphasis is placed on practical applications and guides to where currently available training resources and tools can be found and used. A selection of papers will be published electronically in full, so presentations will be limited to 20 minutes for the key findings, including time for questions from the floor. It is hoped (as in previous years) that the best papers will be published in a special issue of a relevant academic journal. Previous special issues have included:
Journal of Assistive Technologies – Volume 3 issue 2 June 2009 (ITAG 2008 selected papers)
Computers and Education – Volume 56, issue 1 (ITAG 2009 selected papers)
International Journal of Games Based Learning – in press (ITAG 2010 selected papers)
Journal of Assistive Technologies – Volume 6 issue 3 in development (ITAG 2011 selected papers)
Themes and topics:
The conference encourages multidisciplinary papers and examples of themes and topics include (but don’t let this restrict you):
Games Based Learning:
Social and collaborative aspects of games (e.g., educational aspects of Massively Multiplayer Online Games)
The efficacy of games based learning
Self authored content and personalisation in games
Learning theory, pedagogy and instructional design in games
Motivational aspects of games
Collaboration between Science and Art for more effective learning
Games to promote the inclusion (e.g., for offenders and people with disabilities, motivation of female gamers)
Game related Technologies:
Using contemporary games controllers to create new opportunities in health and rehabilitation applications (e.g., applications for Wii Fit, Kinect. Move).
Brain control interfaces to games
Pervasiveness and mobility of games
Location based services
Handheld learning in the classroom
Games for Health:
Serious games for clinical assessment (e.g. after stroke)
Serious games for rehabilitation and treatment (e.g. of phobias, ADHA, post-traumatic stress disorders, stroke)
‘Modding’ for health
Art and music rehabilitation in 3D multisensory environments
Games for children in hospital
Games to increase physical activity in children
Accessibility and Design:
Open source accessibility
Participatory design
Design for all
Natural user interfaces
The representation and promotion of gender equality in games
Alternative input modalities to games for people with disabilities (e.g., brain, haptic and audio interfaces)
Access to interactive technologies for elderly people
Web based technologies:
Resources for interactive learning tools and environments, e.g. Flash, podcasts, simulations, mobile games, Web 2.0 tool etc.
The Internet as a communication medium ( e.g. for people with Asperger Syndrome).
Browser based games and linking into social media channels
Submissions
Those wishing to present papers or hold a workshop should send abstracts, to a maximum of 500 words. For those hoping to exhibit or produce a poster, a 300-word abstract is required. The deadline for submissions is Friday 1st June 2012 to be sent to: karen.krelle@ntu.ac.uk
Final copies of accepted papers are required by Friday 14th September 2012
There is a conference fee of £150 for 2 days, and £80 for 1 day registration. This price includes your invitation to the Game City opening event, lunch, and morning and afternoon refreshments.
Accommodation and Travel Links: https://www.conferencebookings.co.uk/delegate/NCBITAGEHD2010 and http://www.nctx.co.uk/
Prizes Offered:
As in previous years prizes will be awarded!
Best Paper Award: £250
Best Student Paper award: £250
Best Student Poster: £150
Call for Abstracts: Mathematical and Computational Medicine Conference 2012
Saturday December 1 2012 - Wednesday December 5 2012 Xcaret, Mexico
The purpose of the Zing Conference on Mathematical and Computational Medicine is to bring together eminent scholars with expertise in various fields of mathematical and computational medicine, as well as experimentalists and medical doctors interested in application of computational methods in clinical studies. The mathematical and computational medicine is now one of the most important and rapidly growing fields of modern medicine, and will become even more important in nearest future, when the cost of individual human gene sequencing becomes affordable for mass-scale clinical use (The $1000 Human Genome). New sequencing techniques, such as RNA-Seq produce enormous amount of information on the transcriptome in healthy and diseased cells, that need a development of new mathematical and computational methods to extract the most important medical information. The scope of the proposed Zing Conference will cover many different fields mathematical and computational medicine and biomedical informatics, such as genetics, genomics, epigenetics, and epigenomics of various diseases including mental and learning disorders, autism, and somatic diseases, with a special emphasis on cancer, protein misfolding disorders related to amyloid formation in neurogenerative diseases (such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease), gene regulation, biomarker development, computer aided drug development, computational pharmacodynamics, computational immunology, systems biology and its extension to systems medicine, machine learning methods in application to biomedical data, applicability of computational methods in personalized medicine, and regenerative medicine. A special session will be devoted to errors in measurements of biomedical data and statistical evidence-based medicine.
Talk abstract deadline: Saturday June 30 2012
Poster abstract deadline: Monday October 1 2012
For general queries about conference attendance, registration, payment, accommodation, etc. please email info~at~zingconferences.com (replace '~at~' with '@').
For queries about scientific content, presentations, posters, etc. please email info~at~zingconferences.com (replace '~at~' with '@').
Call for Abstracts: Neurodegeneration Conference 2012
Tuesday November 27 2012 - Saturday December 1 2012 Xcaret Mexico
Talk abstract deadline: Friday June 29 2012
Poster abstract deadline: Thursday September 27 2012
This conference will focus on recent advances in neurodegenerative diseases, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments, and will highlight current understanding of underlying mechanisms, new research directions, and therapeutic strategies. The conference will span Alzheimer's and other dementias twenty years since formulation of the amyloid cascade hypothesis, Parkinson's disease, prion diseases, as well as interactions and common mechanisms among neurodegenerative diseases. New concepts in any aspect of neurodegeneration/regeneration are, however, welcomed.
Featured will be plenary lectures from leading investigators, oral presentations from selected abstracts, and poster sessions covering each of the topics. Participation of younger scientists is particularly encouraged and there will be ample opportunity for informal discussions to develop new collaborations in an attractive environment on the Riviera Maya.
Contact us
For general queries about conference attendance, registration, payment, accommodation, etc. please email info~at~zingconferences.com (replace '~at~' with '@').
Call for Papers for a Special Session on Challenges in Neuroengineering at the International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications - NCTA 2012
05 - 07 October, 2012 - Barcelona, Spain
In conjunction with the International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications - NCTA 2012
Neuroengineering is a discipline within biomedical engineering. This interdisciplinary approach combines principles from machine learning, signal processing theory, and computational neuroscience applied to problems in basic and clinical neuroscience.
The ultimate goal of neuroengineering is a technological revolution, where machines would interact in real-time with the brain. Machines and brains could interface, enabling normal function in cases of injury or disease, brain monitoring and/or medical rehabilitation of brain disorders.
Much current research in neuroengineering is focused on understanding the coding and processing of information in the sensory and motor systems, quantifying how this processing is altered in the pathological state, and how it can be manipulated through interactions with artificial devices including brain-computer interfaces and neuroprosthetics.
Our brains are buzzing with electrical activity moving in and out of neural cells, sending electrical impulses along their axons, and exchanging chemical messages. Neural signals allow us to observe neuronal activity in real time.
Our topics cover all imaging or neural signal techniques (cellular-level recording, EEG, MRI/fMRI, PET, fNIRS, chemical or optical recording, etc.) of neuroengineering such as, but not limited to:
- computational neuroscience
- experimental neuroscience
- clinical neurology
- electrical engineering and signal processing of living neural tissue
- robotics and cybernetics
- neural tissue engineering
- materials science, and nanotechnology.
Important Dates
Paper Submission: July 5, 2012
Authors Notification: July 18, 2012
Final Paper Submission and Registration: July 30, 2012
Secretariat Contacts
NCTA Special Sessions - SSCN 2012
e-mail: ncta.secretariat@insticc.org
Call for Abstracts: 2nd International Symposium on Neurorehabilitation
October 18-19, 2012 Valencia, Spain
Abstract submission deadline: August 5, 2012
The incidence of acquired brain injuries (ABIs) and other neurological conditions represents an increasing healthcare problem worldwide.
The complexity of these pathologies makes a multidisciplinary treatment approach necessary which takes as a starting point the important advances that are being made in information and communication technologies (ICTs), virtual reality or robotics. At the same time, neurorehabilitation can also benefit from research in more experimental (biochemical, genetics, functionals, etc.) and clinical (pharmacological, early prevention, etc.) areas. We feel that the Symposium will be an excellent meeting point for professionals and researchers that wish to establish synergies among their respective disciplines which could lead to innovative approaches, and important advances, in neurorehabilitation research.
It has now been just over two years since we organized the “I International Symposium on Neurorehabilitation: From basics to future”. In that first edition, more than 400 delegates from 30 different countries joined us to make the Symposium a success. But, most importantly, the Symposium served as a meeting point for many researchers and professionals.
The Conselleria de Sanitat, the Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (Prince Felipe Research Centre) and the Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Neurorrehabilitación (FIVAN) are collaborating to organize this second edition. Basic neuroscience, clinical neurorehabilitation and neurotechnology will come together once again in 2012 with the objective of improving healthcare models and promoting the use of technology in neurorehabilitation. All of this, for the benefit of our patients. For three days, world-renowned experts will review the current state and the latest advances made in the field of Neurorehabilitation.
Participants are invited to submit abstracts for oral or poster presentation for consideration by the Scientific Committee.
Abstracts should be submitted in English no later than Sunday, August 5, 2012, indicating your preference for oral or poster presentation and one of the following categories:
. Basics
. Plasticity
. Neuroimage
. Virtual rehabilitation
. Cognitive rehabilitation
. Assessment
. Behaviour
. Motor rehabilitation
The abstracts must be submitted through the conference website.
Call for Scientific Research Posters and Innovative Program Abstracts: Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) 2012 Annual Conference
CHADD's 25th Anniversary Annual International Conference on Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
November 8-10, 2012 San Fransisco, California
The CHADD Annual International Conference is the major research, practice and public information conference dedicated to issues related to ADHD. Conference sessions will focus on providing current science-based information and the impact of this information on treatment plans for individuals with ADHD. The conference will bring together researchers, clinicians, educators, adults with ADHD, parents and others. Major goals for the conference are to disseminate the latest developments in research; to facilitate an ongoing exchange about issues related to ADHD by individuals with different experiences and viewpoints; and to increase public understanding of the disorder and its impact.
Only online submissions will be considered for Research poster abstracts and Innovative program abstracts must be received by June 1, 2012. Only online submissions will be considered.
Scientific Research Posters
Research in the area of ADHD related to specific topics of etiology, epidemiology, social, familial, medical and educational matters will be presented in a research poster session. Abstracts will be selected by a panel of reviewers based on scientific merits as well as on a space limitations and the need for a balance of topics. Decisions are based on scientific merit as well as on space limitations and the need for a balance of topics.
Submission Requirements:
• Abstracts that describe actual empirical research are preferred.
• Abstracts submitted should be no longer than 500 words and contain a description of the study's purposes, methodology and results, keeping in mind the diversity of backgrounds of the conference attendees.
• The names and affiliations of all investigators.
Research poster abstracts must be received by June 1, 2012. Only online submissions were considered.
CHADD will not be able to underwrite the expenses of presenters accepted from this Call for Papers.
Questions? Please phone 301-306-7070.
Innovative Programs
As parents and adults, educators and health care providers become more aware of the needs of children with ADHD and their families, they are finding extremely creative ways of addressing these needs. Such efforts include developing new and innovative programs, modifying existing programs; accommodating the needs of the child through individually designed learning environments that highlight his or her special needs, and developing community-wide collaborative models.
Individuals representing a wide array of innovative program and services will be on hand to share information with conference attendees.
Innovative program abstracts must be received by June 1, 2012. Only online submissions were considered.
CHADD will not be able to underwrite the expenses of presenters accepted from this Call for Papers.
Questions? Please phone 301-306-7070.
