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All abstracts will be reviewed by the Committee to ensure that the topic of the submission is consistent with the scope of the topics covered at the meeting.
Once the abstract is accepted, at least one of the authors must register for and present at the conference.
A condition of submission is that, if accepted, the talk or poster will be presented at the conference by one of the authors.
Successfully submitted abstracts will be acknowledged with an electronic receipt including an abstract reference number, which should be quoted in all correspondence. Allow at least 2 hours your receipt to be returned to you.
For revisions or queries regarding papers already submitted
If you do not receive acknowledgment for your abstract submission or you wish to make any essential revisions to an abstract already submitted, please do not resubmit your abstract, as this may lead to duplication. Please email [email protected] opens in new tab/window with details of any revisions or queries. Please quote your reference number if you have one.
Please do not email credit card information under any circumstances.
Conference Dinner (SOLD OUT)
The 6th International Brain Stimulation Conference Dinner will be held on Tuesday 25 February 2025 a the Meriken Park Hotel, Kobe.
Merkin Park is situated in the heart of Kobe, overlooking the beautiful Kobe Port, feel the sea breeze and enjoy the unique charm of Kobe to the fullest.
There will be a buffet meal, drinks and entertainment.
This will be great opportunity to mingle with colleagues and relax, tickets to the dinner can be booked at the same time as registering for the conference, tickets cost USD $90 + 10% VAT, places are limited so early booking is advised.
Conference topics
Topics will include:
Animal models
Basic neuroscience
Brain-computer interface
Clinical neurological applications
Clinical psychiatric applications
Closed-loop or responsive stimulation
Cognitive and affective neuroscience
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
Neuroprostheses
Neurorehabilitation
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)
Call for symposia
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The Program Committee is issuing a call for symposia. The first five International Brain Stimulation Conferences were successful due, in part, to outstanding symposia. We will continue and expand on this tradition in Kobe, creating a meeting that remains true to the multidisciplinary mission of our official journal, Brain Stimulation.
The program will likely include 30 distinct 2-hour symposia, along with 12 plenary lectures, 3 poster sessions, and Meet the Expert workshops.
How to Propose a Symposium
Each regular symposium is two hours long and should involve no more or less than four speakers. Typically, the organizer summarizes the symposium theme for 5 minutes, followed by four speakers of 20 minutes each, leaving time for questions and audience participation. Symposium organizers may also be one of the 4 speakers. We invite symposia submissions from everyone, including Deputy Editors.
Symposium organizers are encouraged to contact members of the Scientific Program Committee to discuss potential symposia, but all discussions are non-binding until after the September deadline and the final program is decided. Email: [email protected]. opens in new tab/window
The Program Committee will give priority to symposia that reflect themes of deep interest to the brain stimulation community and do not duplicate other proposals. Consideration will also be given to gender, geographic, and age-into-career diversity, as well as diversity in the technologies examined. For example, a symposium about TMS as an antidepressant, with an organizer and four speakers who are all men that are senior in their career and come from Charleston, SC, would receive lower priority than would a proposal from a mixture of men and women, some junior in their career, from different countries, tackling not just depression trials, but a topic that transcends TMS and depression, such as durability of TMS effects across different conditions, and includes a talk involving animal studies or basic mechanisms.
At the last three International Brain Stimulation Conferences, we received more outstanding symposia proposals than could be accommodated in the program. As an experiment, we introduced “Fast Track Symposia,” where two symposia, addressing similar topics, were combined into one two-hour slot (i.e., 8 speakers, each 15 minutes). These symposia proved popular and were well attended. If necessary, for the Kobe meeting, we will offer the same solution to specific symposium organizers.
For the 5th International Brain Stimulation Meeting in Portugal, we initiated on-demand symposia, which were highly successful. We are continuing to offer these symposia, with some modifications to make them even more accessible and interactive. We will also continue with Regular and Fast-Track symposium. In order to be more equitable and stay within the conference budget, we are reducing but not eliminating the registration fee for all symposium presenters, including the on-demand symposia. All symposia presenters will pay a reduced registration fee to attend the conference.
Symposium presenter registration fee: $350 + 10% VAT (Applicable to Regular and Fast-track symposia only)
Summary of the types of symposia available at the conference:
Regular Symposium – Duration: 2 hours, Number of presenters: 4, presentations given live and in person at the conference.
Fast-Track Symposium - Duration: 2 hours, Number of presenters: 8, presentations given live and in person at the conference.
On-Demand Symposium – Duration: 20-minute recordings of presentations plus poster session at the conference, Number of presenters: 4, presentations recorded by individual presenters and made available in the conference online platform and app, plus four posters grouped together live and in person at the conference.
How to Submit a Symposium
The symposium organiser will be responsible for submitting the four abstracts that make up their symposium via our online system opens in new tab/window.
To assist with this process, symposium organisers should download the template submission form here opens in new tab/windowand ask their presenters to complete the form with the details of their abstract. Once the symposium organiser has collected all four abstracts, they should proceed to the online submission form to submit each of the abstracts in their symposium.
At the beginning of each abstract submission, the symposium organiser will be asked to enter the title of their symposium and their symposium description. This will ensure the individual abstracts are matched to the correct symposium.
The text to describe the symposium is unstructured but would likely include a few sentences describing the background and why the question is important.
If symposium organisers require any assistance with their submissions, they should email: [email protected] opens in new tab/window
We look forward to receiving many outstanding symposia proposals. Think broadly and creatively about the deep, controversial, or hot new issues in our field and let us have a great meeting in Kobe. We look forward to seeing you there!
Awards
2025 International brain stimulation award winner announced opens in new tab/window
Award recognizes influential research in the neurosciences
We are delighted to announce that Walter Paulus opens in new tab/window, MD is the recipient of the 2025 International Brain Stimulation Award. The awardee is determined by the Senior and Deputy Editors of Brain Stimulation, basedon nominations from the entire brain stimulation community.
The International Brain Stimulation Award (IBSA) acknowledges outstanding contributions to the field of brain stimulation. These contributions may be in basic, translational, or clinical aspects of neuromodulation, and must have had a profound influence in shaping this exciting and fast-growing field of neuroscience and medicine. The award will be presented at the 6th International Brain Stimulation Conference opens in new tab/window, Feb 23-26, 2025, Kobe, Japan, where Dr. Paulus will deliver a plenary lecture.
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2025 International brain stimulation early career award winner announced
Award recognizes important impact on the field of neuromodulation by an individual early in their career
The Editors of Brain Stimulation and Elsevier, the information analytics business specializing in science and health, are delighted to announce that Andreas Horn, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School and Mass General Brigham, USA is the recipient of the 2025 International Brain Stimulation Early Career Award. The awardee is determined by the Senior and Deputy Editors of Brain Stimulation, based on nominations from the entire brain stimulation community.
The International Brain Stimulation Early Career Award (IBSECA) acknowledges outstanding contributions to the field of brain stimulation. These contributions may be in basic, translational, or clinical aspects of neuromodulation, and must have had a profound influence in shaping this exciting and fast-growing field of neuroscience and medicine.
This is the third time that the IBSECA has been awarded. It will be presented at the 6th International Brain Stimulation Conference, February 23–26, Kobe, Japan.
Previous winners:
2021, Charleston, USA - Michael D. Fox 2023, Portugal, Lisbon - Colleen A. Hanlon
Andreas Horn is Associate Professor for Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Deep Brain Stimulation research within the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. He further serves as the Director for Neuromodulation Research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
His lab studies how focal neuromodulation impacts the human connectome to refine clinical treatments for neurological and psychiatric disorders. A key question is which networks should be modulated for improvements of specific symptoms – in disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Depression, or Alzheimer’s Disease. Further, the lab develops methods to segregate the human connectome into functional domains by combining brain stimulation with functional and diffusion-weighted MRI. Read more about Andreas Horn
“Dr. Horn is a pioneering young scientist who is transforming how we visualize and place electrodes in the brain for research and therapy” says Dr. Mark George.
“His software builds on connectomics - how different brain regions connect to each other. He is like a Galileo for our community, opening up new ways of seeing the brain and how to interact with it.”
International brain stimulation best poster awards
The International Brain Stimulation Best Poster Awards were first given at the inaugural 2015 meeting in Singapore. At each of the three poster sessions, one poster will be selected for this award. The poster presenter will receive a certificate and a cash prize of $500 (US).
For all awards, recipients are selected by the Senior Editors and Deputy Editors of Brain Stimulation: Basic, Translational and Clinical Research in Neuromodulation, with consideration given to the diversity of the meeting. The financial aspects of these awards are supported by Elsevier Inc.