Discover the Brain Awareness Week projects funded by the FENS and Dana Foundation grant in 2016.

Discover the Brain Awareness Week projects funded by the FENS and Dana Foundation grant in 2017.

Discover the Brain Awareness Week projects funded by the FENS and Dana Foundation grant in 2018.

Discover the Brain Awareness Week projects funded by the FENS and Dana Foundation grant in 2019.

Discover the Brain Awareness Week projects funded by the FENS and Dana Foundation grant in 2020.

Discover the Brain Awareness Week projects funded by the FENS and Dana Foundation grant in 2021.

Discover the Brain Awareness Week projects funded by the FENS and Dana Foundation grant in 2022.

A report mapping the brain science landscape of brain and neuroscience research

Project funded under the FENS call for history of neuroscience projects.

Talk by Dr Pascale Tremblay, Université Laval

The claim that “Language is special,” and thus encapsulated in a specialized language network, has informed cognitive neuroscience research since pioneer work of researchers in the late 19 th century. This talk aims to provide a snapshot of the state of knowledge in language neurobiology with a focus on demonstrating the failure of this classical viewpoint to capture the essence of contemporary language neurobiology and demonstrate how this viewpoint, which remains dominant to this day, has contributed to maintaining a narrow empirical and theoretical research focus and to perpetuating a disconnect between common understanding of language neurobiology and the actual state of knowledge in the field.

The Corpus Curiosum series was produced with the support of FENS Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET)

Biography of Brodmann, Korbinian – Germany
Via IBRO

Biography of Bures, Jan – Czech Republic
Via SfN

Paper published by Fernando de Castro.

Biography of Cajal, Santiago Ramon – Spain
Via IBRO

Paper by Fernando de Castro, Laura López-Mascaraque and Juan A. De Carlos.

Paper published by Juan A. De Carlos and Zoltán Molnár.

Historical video based on Ramón y Cajal’s life, highlighting his most important scientific milestones for building the birth of modern Neuroscience.

Paper by Fernando de Castro.

Brochure presenting the Committee on Animal Research (CARE) and its activities.

Learn more about the mission of the Committee on Animal Research (CARE).

Biography of Carlsson, Arvid – Sweden
Via SfN

Project funded under the FENS call for history of neuroscience projects.

Biography of Changeux, Jean-Pierre – France
Via SfN

Video documentary covering the history of Darwinism and development of neuroscience in Europe.

Opinion article produced by FENS-Kavli Scholars (FKNE), and published in the European Journal of Neuroscience (EJN).

A consensus document about psychiatric and neurological diseases representing a considerable social and eco0mic burden in Europe. Written by Monica Di Luca, Mary Baker, Renato Corradetti, Helmut Kettenmann, Julien Mendlewicz, Jes Olesen, Ian Ragan and Manfred Westphal.

A consensus Statement on European Brain Research: The need to expand Brain Research in Europe

Developed by the FENS Committee on Higher Education and Training (CHET) in cooperation with the SfN Neuroscience Training Committee (NTC), the Core Competencies in European Graduate Neuroscience Training are meant as guidance for:

– faculty and programmes that develop and evaluate the training they provide to students,

– trainees to assess the skills they have acquired in a MSc or PhD programme, track their progress, or provide awareness of the requirements for potential future training opportunities.

Report on the cost of disorders of the brain in Europe

Learn how to identify and fix common problems with figures in scientific publications with this FENS Friday webinar organised by the FENS Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET) and the Communication Committee.

In this special event, we will hear about credibility initiatives that have the potential to increase the reproducibility, replicability, and reliability neuroscience research, which will not only benefit scientific progress in the long-run, but also address a major cause for the poor mental health of research. Organised at FENS Forum 2020 by the British Neuroscience Association and FENS Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET).

Are most published research findings false? Why should we care? And is there anything we can do about it?

This workshop covers the wide-ranging issues that contribute to irreproducibility. It focuses on the bias in dissemination of experimental data from the point of view of journals, funding agencies, and the general media.

Organised by the FENS Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET).

A production by The Human Brain Project with images donated by Prof. Javier DeFelipe. A parcial or total reproduction of this video is not allowed under any circumstances. © The Human Brain Project 2015.

Biography of De Renzi, Ennio – Italy
Via SfN

This FENS Forum 2018 event discussed current situation of women and men in science, including gender statistics related to research funding, ways of combining career progress with family and parenting, and ongoing initiatives to support women and men in science. Event organised by the FKNE and the FENS Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET).

Project funded under the FENS call for history of neuroscience projects.

Talk by Dr Peter Hacker, Oxford University

Mereology is the logic of part/whole relations. One kind of mereological mistake is that of misguidedly attributing properties of wholes to their parts. Some holistic properties cannot licitly be ascribed to parts: aeroplanes fly, but their engines cannot be said to fly; antique clocks keep time but their fusées cannot be said to keep time. A widespread mistake in cognitive neuroscience is to attribute to the human brain properties that can be intelligibly attributed only to the living human being as a whole. The brain is commonly held to perceive, to think, to feel emotions, and to intend to do things. These are category mistakes that lead to widespread fallacies in the reasoning of neuroscientists. The rationale of the mereological fallacy in neuroscience will be explained and objections will be refuted.

The Corpus Curiosum series was produced with the support of FENS Committee for Higher Education and Training (CHET)

Dr John Lidwell-Durin (History Faculty, University of Oxford) on “John Hughlings Jackson, Nerve-Genesis and Language”, at the FENS History Seminar on “History of Understanding of the Cerebral Cortex”, organised at St John’s College, University of Oxford, on 12 May 2015, by Prof. Zoltan Molnar.

The contributions of Dr Laza K. Lazarevic (1851-1891), the founder of Serbian neurology, to the development of neuroscience in Europe during the 19th century.