Neurology meetings & conferences

2nd International Conference on Heart & Brain

February 27-March 1, 2014 Paris, France

The 2nd International Conference on Heart & Brain (ICHB 2014) is a unique meeting that unites cardiologists and neurologists in order to pursue a holistic approach to understanding the connection between the heart and the brain. As a leader in the emerging multidisciplinary field of neurocardiology, the biennial ICHB conference has set the standard in the rapidly growing field of integrated medicine that encourages a broad spectrum of knowledge for improved practice and patient care.

Being held in breathtaking Paris, February 27-March 1, ICHB 2014 will build on 2012’s inaugural conference by presenting state-of-the-art research and breakthroughs from both fields, together in one place, so as to facilitate an important exchange of knowledge and expertise.

Accelerating Translational Neurotechnology: Fourth Annual Aspen Brain Forum

September 18 - 20, 2013 Aspen Meadows Resort

Presented by The Aspen Brain Forum Foundation, Science Translational Medicine, and the New York Academy of Sciences

Neurotechnology encompasses electrical, chemical, and medical devices and products that can interact with or intervene in the activity of the central nervous system. These technologies include neuroprosthetics, neuroengineering, neuroimaging, optogenetics, neuromodulation, and neural stem cell therapies. Translating neurotechnologies from the laboratory into clinical and commercial products has been an arduous process. Yet many of these new tools show great potential to revolutionize the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders including depression, pain, headache, epilepsy, neuromuscular disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and traumatic brain injury.

Through a series of plenary sessions, panel discussions, and interactive breakout groups, this 2.5-day international conference shall explore innovative scientific, clinical, and organizational models for advancing the translation of neuroscience research into technology that can dramatically improve diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disease. Participants will also examine the ethical and regulatory challenges in translating neuroscience research, and the potential economic impact of their clinical application.

This conference includes a breakout session. During registration, you will be asked to choose a work group based on your area/disease of interest. Please pick your first and second choices for this session. You may also write in an alternate topic. We will create additional groups if there is sufficient interest. Registrants will receive an email with work group details several weeks prior to the conference.

Choices include: Parkinson's Disease, Major Depression and other Mood Disorders, Chronic Pain, Alzheimer's Disease, or Traumatic Brain Injury.

Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury

The IBIA International Scientific Planning Committee and National Scientific Planning Committee would like to invite you to attend the Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury, to be held in March 19 - 22, 2014, San Francisco, California.

The IBIA World Congress is the largest gathering of international professionals working in the field of brain injury. Delegates are comprised of physicians, psychologists and neuropsychologists, therapists, social workers, nurses, case managers, legal professionals, advocates and all others working in the field of brain injury.

The Tenth World Congress program will feature internationally recognized invited speakers, platform lectures, workshops, short oral presentations and poster sessions.  The theme of the congress will be Neurotrauma, Technology, and Neurorehabilitation.

The aim of the Tenth World Congress is to provide an opportunity for establishing collegial relationships with international professionals focused on the care and/or service of persons with acquired brain injury and/or the science of brain injury research. State of the art research will be presented dealing with information spanning from basic science to clinical (coma to community) aspects of brain injury.

Finally, the Congress seeks to provide didactic opportunities for clinicians interested in advancing their knowledge in brain injury science, medicine and care.  The official language of the Congress is English, and sessions are open to all delegates registering to attend the event.

Grand Challenges in Parkinson's Disease

The Role of Inflammation

September 18-19, 2013 Grand Rapids, Michigan

2013 International Headache Congress

June 27-30, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts

The American Headache Society (AHS) is proud to have been selected by the International Headache Society (IHS) to host the 2013 International Headache Congress (IHC).

The common goal of both societies is “revolutionizing headache care through science” and the Congress will provide the research, education,and training to attendees to reach those goals for their patients and themselves. The scientific committee has designed a program for physicians, researchers, psychologists, and other health professionals that will address practice gaps by state of the art lectures, interactive sessions and case based sessions. The latest and most up to date knowledge on migraine, other primary headache and secondary headaches as well as facial pain will be presented by internationally known thought leaders, researchers, and clinicians. Clinically relevant basic knowledge will be provided and workable solutions to common and complex headache medicine problems will be addressed. The new headache classification and diagnostic criteria of the IHS will be presented along with imaging and genetic data, as well as debates on controversial management problems. All these items should allow the headache practitioner to better help the headache patients and achieving better outcomes under their care.

Seventh Annual Huntington Disease Clinical Research Symposium (HDCRS)

Saturday, November 9, 2013 from 8:00am - 12:30pm Charlotte, North Carolina

10th International Congress on Non-Motor Dysfunctions in Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders

December 4-7, 2014 Nice, France

Join the 10th International Congress on Non-Motor Dysfunctions in Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders after several successful years of providing the world’s leading specialists with unparalleled access to the latest discoveries and developments in the study of the etiology and therapy of non-motor features of Parkinson’s disease.

NMDPD 2014 is a leading annual educational forum offering a unique opportunity to deliberate on brain diseases and how they contribute to cognitive decline, and to identify the specific psychological markers, biochemical and genetic factors of Parkinson’s dementia and of dementia with Lewy bodies. Join your colleagues and discover the latest developments in our understanding of non motor aspects of the basal ganglia, pathological abnormalities related to PD and the genetic mutations resulting in movement disorders.

NMDPD Congresses enable you to network with leading neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other multidisciplinary specialists from around the world and exchange information of take-home value. After a highly successful gathering in Asia, NMDPD will be returning to its European roots. Join your colleagues in Nice for four days of sun, fun and unexpected treasures in the capital of the French Riviera. 

13th International Child Neurology Congress

May 4-9 2014 Iguazu Falls, Brazil

The 13th International Child Neurology Congress will be held in the city of Foz do Iguaçu (Iguazú River Mouth), Brazil, from  4 to 9 May 2014. This is the second time that an ICNC is held in Latin America the first one being in Buenos Aires, Argentina,  in 1992. The congress will be held jointly with the 9th Brazilian Congress of Child Neurology.

27th Annual Parkinson Study Group Symposium on Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment  of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders

October 1, 2013  Montreal, Canada

The Parkinson Study Group (PSG), in collaboration with the Huntington Study Group (HSG), Dystonia Study Group (DSG), Tourette Syndrome Study Group (TSSG), Cooperative Ataxia Group (CAG), and Tremor Research Group (TRG), will present the 27th Annual Symposium on Etiology, Pathogenesis, and Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders on Tuesday, October 1, 2013, at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel, in Montreal, Canada.  The peer-reviewed program includes both platform and poster presentations.

North American Brain Injury Society 11th Annual Conference on Brain Injury

September 18 - 21, 2013 New Orleans, Louisiana

The 2013 NABIS conference planning committee, led by Tina Trudel, PhD,  has developed an integrated educational program that promises to be of interest to researchers, clinicians, administrators, and other brain injury professionals. 

The conference will be a four-day, multi-track event that will cover a wide range of brain injury topics.  This year's topics include Effort, Exaggeration, and Malingering after Concussion; Process and Outcome of Holistic Neuropsychological Rehabiliation; State of Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Summit Update;  Episodic Dyscontrol; Resilence Post-TBI;  Affect Related Disorders Post–TBI; Pediatric Neuropsychology; Post-traumatic Headache; DVBIC Research; Models for Family Therapy Post-TBI; MTBI and Suicidal Ideation; Neurotherapy; New Developments in Understanding the Mechanism of Blast Related TBI; Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation; Clinical Practice Guidelines on Disorders of Consciousness; NIDRR Update; Sleep and Brain Injury; NASHIA and State issues in Brain Injury Services; Advanced Therapies Capitalizing on Neuroplasticity; Cultural Issues in BI Rehabilitation; Acute and Long Term Clinical Issues in Disorders of Consciousness; and Aging, Functional Decline, and Assistance.  Episodic Dyscontrol, Resilence Post-TBI, Affect Related Disorders Post-TBI, Post-traumatic Headache, Clinical Practice Guidelines on Disorders of Consciousness, NIDRR Update, mTBI and Suicidal Ideation, Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation, NASHIA and State Issues in Brain Injury Services, and Brain Injury as a Chronic Disease.   Additionally at the meeting, there will be Panel discussions on Neuro Imaging and Healthcare Reform.

Prior to the start of the general meeting, there will be a pre-conference on NeuroImaging.