March 2-5 2016, World Forum Conference Center The Hague, The Netherlands
This year the 11th World Congress on Brain Injury takes place in The Netherlands on 2-5 March, 2016 at the World Forum Conference Center in The Hague. The congress is unique in its international focus on transdisciplinary advances in the science, clinical aspects, and public policy issues of traumatic and other acquired brain injuries. It 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. Over 1400 multidisciplinary professionals attended the last Congress in San Francisco, California in 2014.
The theme of the 2016 Congress will be “Brain Injury: from Cell to Society”. The Congress program will feature internationally recognized invited speakers, platform lectures, panels, and workshops, as well as oral presentations and poster sessions. The preliminary program will be posted in the Fall of 2015.
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) can be understood on a number of levels, from the genes that control its pathophysiology through to the behavioural disorders it may generate and even beyond to social and cultural phenomena. Such a hierarchy is also reflective of the approaches used to investigate ABI varying from, for instance, genes that are associated with recovery of neural networks to the behavioural interactions of individuals with ABI within a social or cultural context. We must be wary of taking a unidirectional, biological reductionist view in our attempts to understand ABI. Focusing research on one level, might restrict our capacity to truly unravel the interconnections from cell through to society that set lifetime trajectories for recovery of health and wellbeing in patients with ABI. The |Eleventh World Congress “Brain Injury: from cell to society” aims to inspire researchers, clinicians and policymakers with ground breaking ideas, insights and prospects aimed at reducing the immense burden ABI infers on individuals, their caregivers and society as a whole.
The scientific program will offer keynote and plenary addresses by luminaries in the field. Congress participants will have opportunities to present their work and to learn about advances made by others in the science of brain injury and the care of persons and families affected by brain injuries through scientific poster and paper presentations, workshops, exhibitor demonstrations, candlelight sessions with international experts, as well as, pre- and post-conference symposia.
From the Netherlands NeuroControl will provide a preconference workshop and two symposia. Neurocontrol is a Dutch centre of research excellence, established 2011 as part of the IMDI initiative. To exploit neuroplasticity, novel assessment and therapeutic means will be developed by matching control-engineering with neuroscience, signal-processing with neurology, and robotics with rehabilitation medicine. NeuroControl aims to accelerate the development of new technology and improve existing technology to monitor and enhance neuroplasticity for assessment and treatment of chronic neurological diseases. NeuroControl strives to lessen the socioeconomic burden of chronic neurological diseases. NeuroControl will strengthen the international leading position of the Dutch industry in this field, create new start-up companies and attract foreign companies to invest in the Netherlands.
More information on: http://www.internationalbrain.org/news/save-date-eleventh-world-congress-2016/