Neuroscience - Neuroscience Organizations

Neuroscience Organizations

The largest professional neuroscience organization is the Society for Neuroscience (SFN), which is based in the United States but includes many members from other countries. Since its founding in 1969 the SFN has grown steadily: as of 2010 it recorded 40,290 members from 83 different countries. Annual meetings, held each year in a different American city, draw attendance from researchers, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduates, as well as educational institutions, funding agencies, publishers, and hundreds of businesses that supply products used in research.

Other major organizations devoted to neuroscience include the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), which holds its annual meetings in a country from a different part of the world each year, and the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), which holds annual meetings in European cities. FENS comprises a set of 32 national-level organizations, including the British Neuroscience Association, the German Neurowissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, and the French Societé des Neurosciences.