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The article highlights a symposium held at the 2013 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. Topics covered in the symposium includes identification of the key reasons why neuroscience may be useful to law with the help of examples, the promise and the perils of using neuroscientific evidence in legal proceedings, and how legal decision-makers draw scientifically sound inferences about the relationships between particular neuroscientific evidence and particular behaviors.

The article presents information on international Computational Neuroscience (CNS) meeting held in Toronto, Ontario from July 7-12, 2007. The meeting included a welcome reception, oral and poster sessions for three days, an evening harbor cruise and dinner, and two days of workshops. The CNS 2007 program committee included Bill Holmes and Steve Bressler while CNS 2007 reviewers included Kurt Ahrens, and Athena Akrami.

Describes the above-named upcoming special issue or section. May include topics to be covered or calls for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Information about several papers discussed at the Fifth Congress of the Federation of Asian Oceanian Neuroscience Societies (FAONS) and 28th Annual Conference of the Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN) held from November 25-28, 2011 which tackles about brain ageing and dementia is presented. Topics include brain-ageing associated anatomical and functional changes and dementia and advancements in therapeutic strategies. The symposium featured speakers including Bindu Dey, and Hitoshi Okamoto.

The article offers information on the 2011 Polanyi Society Annual Meeting to be held in San Francisco, California on November 19.

Information about the several papers discussed at the 2008 SciFoo is presented. Topics that were discussed ranged from the Large Hadron Collider to the neuroscience of the brain-machine interface. The annual 'unconference' was organized by "Nature," Tim O'Reilly and Google. The 2008 SciFoo's details and participants are at www.nature.com/scifoo.

Information regarding the 5th Congress of Federation of Asian-Oceanian Neuroscience Societies (FAONS) held at Hotel Clarks Avadh in Lucknow, India from November 25-28, 2011 is presented. Topics include the role of nature and nurture in the development of vision, the importance of natural products for treatment of Alzheimer's disease, and the therapeutic use of Bacopa monniera in aluminum neurotoxicity. The symposium features several neuroscientists such as Rakesh Shukla and Torsten N. Wiesel .

The article offers information on the topics discussed at the scientific meeting held in Germany. It states that the meeting addressed the issue of neuroimmunology and neurodegeneration, highlighting the functionality of T cells. It mentions that the meeting discussed the role of immune system in stroke, focusing on the researches related to inhibition of sphingolipid signaling and molecule adhesion.

The conference "Neuroscience and Pragmatism: Productive Prospects" was held on June 10, 2011 at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Arlington, Virginia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Annual meeting abstracts published by scientific societies often contain rich arrays of information that can be computationally mined and distilled to elucidate the state and dynamics of the subject field. We extracted and processed abstract data from the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) annual meeting abstracts during the period 2001-2006 in order to gain an objective view of contemporary neuroscience. An important first step in the process was the application of data cleaning and disambiguation methods to construct a unified database, since the data were too noisy to be of full utility in the raw form initially available. Using natural language processing, text mining, and other data analysis techniques, we then examined the demographics and structure of the scientific collaboration network, the dynamics of the field over time, major research trends, and the structure of the sources of research funding. Some interesting findings include a high geographical concentration of neuroscience research in the north eastern United States, a surprisingly large transient population (66% of the authors appear in only one out of the six studied years), the central role played by the study of neurodegenerative disorders in the neuroscience community, and an apparent growth of behavioral/systems neuroscience with a corresponding shrinkage of cellular/molecular neuroscience over the six year period. The results from this work will prove useful for scientists, policy makers, and funding agencies seeking to gain a complete and unbiased picture of the community structure and body of knowledge encapsulated by a specific scientific domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information regarding a series of academic readings dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Ukrainian neuroscientist Leonid Gittik, held in Lutsk, Ukraine from June 8-10, 2016, is presented. Topics discussed include studies on neurological brain dysfunctions, dynamics of muscle construction, and psychological load stress. The event was attended by several neuroscience and neurological school professionals including Ihor Kotsan, Poruchynskiy Andriy, and professor Mackarchuk.

The authors discuss topics related to neuroscience which were presented at the 2nd Provence Summer Workshop. They cite the potential advantage of the graph theory in advancing neuroscience. They say that comparisons were conducted between normal ageing individuals and those with Alzheimer's disease (AD). They suggest that original thinking is the most appropriate procedure for data reduction.

The article focuses on the symposium "GABAergic neurotransmission in the human cerebral cortex: Same rules apply?" sponsored by the Anatomical Society as part of the British Neuroscience Association Festival of Neuroscience, London, England on April 7-10, 2013. Topics discussed include role of GABAergic neurotransmission in cortical microcircuits in slices from human brain, non-invasive functional brain imaging, and methods for recordings from neurons in patients implanted with electrodes.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including one on the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago, Illinois in November 2009, one on the underappreciated role of zinc in the nervous system, and one on the review of the function of rapid eye movement sleep and dreaming.