Événements
Congrès de l’encéphale 2026
La nouvelle édition du Congrès de l’Encéphale se tiendra au Palais des Congrès de Paris du mercredi 21 au vendredi 23 janvier 2026.
21st MRI Workshop : Spinal cord imaging in Multiple Sclerosis
Join a day dedicated to spinal cord imaging with national and international experts. This event also offers young researchers and/or clinicians the opportunity to present their imaging research work.
Speakers
Blanche Bapst, Virginie Callot, Benoît Combès, Julien Cohen-Adad, Anne Kerbrat, Caroline Landelle, Lydiane Mondot, Mark Mühlau, Julien Savatoski, Charidimos Tsagkas et Chris W.J. van der Weijden.
Preliminary program:
Session 1: Quantification of spinal cord involvement in MS (part 1)
with: Charidimos Tsagkas, Basel, Swuitzerland · Virginie Callot, Marseille, France · Anne Kerbrat & Benoit Combès, Rennes, France
Session 2: Quantification of spinal cord involvement in MS (part 2)
with: Julien Cohen-Adad, Montréal, Canada · Chris W.J. van der Weijden, Groningen, Neitherland · Caroline Landelle, Montréal, Canada
Session 3: Back to conventional MRI and clinical practice
with: Mark Mühlau, Münich, Germany · Blanche Bapst, Créteil, France
Round table: Spinal cord MRI in practice
with specialists from France: Lydiane Mondot, Nice · Blanche Bapts, Créteil · Julien Savatovski, Paris · Françoise Durand-Dubief, Lyon · Jan-Patrick Stellmann, Marseille
Practical information
Place
Institut du cerveau · 47 boulevard de l'Hôpital · 75013 Paris, France
Journées Thématiques 2026
Les prochaines Journées Thématiques de la Société des Neurosciences auront lieu les 26 et 27 mai 2026 à Toulouse autour du thème “Human and Animal cognition: From behavorial observation to underlying neuronal mechanisms”.
Début des inscriptions et soumissions de résumés : fin janvier 2026
Practical information
Place
Centre de Biologie Intégrative
169 Rue Marianne Grunberg-Manago
31400 Toulouse
Neurotech Lille 2026 – “Cerveau, neurotechnologies et modèles de l’esprit : dialogues entre sciences et philosophie”
Le colloque Neurotech Lille 2026 – “Cerveau, neurotechnologies et modèles de l’esprit : dialogues entre sciences et philosophie” aura lieu les 23 et 24 juin 2026 à la Chartreuse de Neuville.
Plus d’informations prochainement.
Joint meeting for French and Italian Neuroscience Societies
This meeting is organized by Miriam Melis (University of Cagliari, Italy) and Marcello Solinas (University of Poitiers, Inserm U1074, France) as a satellite of the FENS Forum 2026, to be held in Barcelona.
Date: Sunday, July 5th, 2026 from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM
15:00-15:10 Greeting by Marcello Solinas (France) and Miriam Melis (Italy)
15:10-16:40 SINS-SdN Symposium 1: Neurodevelopmental Processes and Cognitive Challenges
Speakers:
• S1.1: Neurodevelopment and brain disorders – Simona Lodato (Milan, Italy)
• S1.2: Neurobiology of Social Cognition – Francesco Papaleo (Genoa, Italy)
• S1.3: Brain mechanisms of social influences on craving and health-related decision-making – Leonie Koban (Lyon, France)
16:40-17:10 Keynote lecture: A cannabinoid view on brain functions
Giovanni Marsicano (Bordeaux, France)
17:10-18:40 SdN-SINS Symposium 2: Neurobiological Mechanisms of Behavior and Decision-Making
Speakers:
• S2.1: Dopamine and Decision-Making Processes – Philippe Faure (Paris, France)
• S2.2: From Stress Reactivity to Dysfunction: Neurobiological Mechanisms and Translational Insights – Patrizia Campolongo (Rome, Italy)
• S2.3: Neurobiology of pain and associated psychiatric disorders – Ipeck Yalcin (Strasbourg, France)
This event received the patronage of the French and the Italian Neuroscience Societies.
Practical information
Place
Barcelona, Spain
FENS Forum 2026
The 2026 FENS Forum will take place in Barcelona on 6-10 July 2026.

