5th International Brain Stimulation Conference

19–22 February 2023
Lisbon, Portugal

Before travelling to the conference, please familiarise yourself with the Covid-19 requirements for Portugal which Elsevier will be following. The current country guidelines can be found here. We still request that anyone who has tested positive for Covid-19, or is under any self-quarantine orders does not attend the conference.

2023 programme snapshot

*Please note change to conference start date*

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The field of brain stimulation continues to undergo phenomenal growth. Brain stimulation methods are rapidly transforming research on brain mechanisms, from the molecular to the behavioral, and offer new approaches to therapeutics for brain disorders. In many ways, the field of brain stimulation represents a paradigm shift, augmenting and sometimes supplanting the dominant psychopharmacological approaches of the past several decades.

Currently, there are single theme meetings around the world that that are either technique or profession based or that limit the science of neuromodulation in other ways. This fifth international meeting, organized by Elsevier and sponsored by and integrated with the journal Brain Stimulation, continues in the tradition of the prior highly successful meetings – the first meeting was held in Singapore in 2015, then Barcelona in 2017, Vancouver in 2019 and most recently Charleston in 2021.

This meeting will continue the integrative multidisciplinary approach of the prior meetings. Basic scientists will attend lectures by engineers and psychiatrists. Cognitive neuroscientists will mingle with neurosurgeons and brain modelling physicists. This fertile cross-disciplinary meeting will provide ample opportunity to discuss the science that is driving advances in this field.

Topics will include:

Animal models
Brain-computer interface
Closed-loop or responsive stimulation
Combining brain stimulation methods with brain imaging
Computer modeling of brain stimulation methods
Deep brain stimulation (DBS)
EEG-synchronization
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Focal pharmacology
Neuronavigation
Neurophysiology
Novel neuromodulation techniques
Plasticity of the nervous system
Transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS)
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
Transcranial pulsed ultrasound (tPUS)
Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS)
Basic neuroscience
Clinical neurological applications
Clinical psychiatric applications
Cognitive and affective neuroscience

Additional benefits to attending an Elsevier conference!

After two years of working with virtual platforms, we are all looking forward to returning to face to face conferences and networking with our peers. Learning from our experiences over this time, we shall be utilizing our online event platform, to offer even more benefits to our physical attendees.

Attendees will be able to view posters (abstracts, pdf’s and video pitches) one week prior to the conference - in addition to the traditional poster boards at the in person event.
Symposium presenters will be given the opportunity to pre-record their presentation, and these will be made available immediately after the conference (to registered attendees only), to allow delegates to watch any sessions they missed, and watch again at their leisure.

Conference Co-Chairs

Mark S. George, Editor-in-Chief, Brain Stimulation, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
Harold A. Sackeim, Founding Editor, Brain Stimulation, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

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