4th SFCNS Congress | Swiss Federation of Clinical Neuro-Societies
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Abstracts

Publication of the Abstract book

The abstractbook can be downloaded here.

Abstract Guidelines

  • The scientific committee highly encourages the submission of original scientific material
  • Can be submitted again: abstracts that have been presented at a foreign congress during the last year
  • Cannot be submitted again: abstracts that have been published in a journal and abstracts that have been submitted at an earlier congress of an involved society
  • At least one author has to be registered for the congress.

Abstract Guidelines YouCliN

  • YouCliN Award
    1. Prizes will be awarded for the best independent clinical research papers entered for the YouCliN Award. The total prize fund will be CHF 3,000 (1st prize 2,000 / 2nd prize 1,000).
    2. Any neuroscientific paper published in 2018/2019, either in Switzerland or by members of a Swiss institution during a research period abroad, is eligible to be considered for a prize. Invited lectures do not qualify for a prize.
    3. Doctors of any age working in Switzerland may be considered for a prize, if at least 50% of their work is clinical, alongside research. Established scientists (post-doctoral or professors) do not qualify. Only lead authors will be named as winners, but co-authors will be mentioned on the award certificate and in surrounding publicity.
    4. The shortlist of abstracts will be drawn up by a nominated jury (2 YouCliN members and 1 senior member). The jury will first select the most interesting abstracts for the YouCliN Award Session, which will comprise 6 presentations (8 mins. presentation, 2 mins. discussion). Both the scientific and the linguistic quality of each abstract will be taken into account. Abstracts which are not chosen for presentations will be considered for selection as E-poster presentations.
    5. At the YouCliN Award Session, the jury will judge entries using the following quality criteria: originality, scientific methodology, relevance, presentation style (presentation language English).
    6. The award ceremony will take place during the SFCNS Congress.

  • YouCliN Video
    • Call for abstracts for videos (young clinicians preferred)
    • Abstract shall contain description of video, such as interventions, cases, new techniques, surgical interventions, diagnostics or research, tissue clearing (3D-conversion of tissue)
    • Prize will be awarded for the best YouCliN-Video. The prize fund will be CHF 1,500.

Abstracts | 5th OHBM Alpine Chapter Symposium

Abstracts can be submitted as free communication for the 5th OHBM Alpine Chapter Symposium.
The structure of the abstract can be found below. Deadline: June 30, 2019.

Structure of the Abstract

If applicable, the abstract should consist of the following parts:

    1. Title
      • please do not use only capital letters - for example please write "Swiss Federation of Clinical Neuro-Societies" and NOT "SWISS FEDERATION OF CLINICAL NEURO-SOCIETIES"
      • if your abstract contains a case report, please indicate in the title
    2. The content of the abstract
      (limited to 2500 characters including spaces) should consist of the following parts:
      • Aims
      • Methods
      • Results
        Arithmetic characters are to be separated with spaces. Example: Permitted is the notation "p < 0.5", whereas "p<0.5" is not permitted
      • Conclusion
    3. Authors
      please include all authors in the correct order
    4. Affiliations
      please include the authors’complete affiliations by indicating the corresponding company/institutions, department, location and country
    5. Acknowledgements or references 
      can be added in the separate field below the abstract body/content.
    6. References 
      should be indicated using the following format: author name, journal name, year of publication, volume, starting page, without manuscript title; e.g. (Smith AG. et al. J Fant 2002:79:567).
    7. Please note that figures, tables or graphs cannot be included.

Form of Presentation

  • Aphasie Suisse
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Headache Society
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss League against Epilepsy
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Neurological Society
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Society of Behavioral Neurology
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Society of Biological Psychiatry
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Society of Neuropaediatrics
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Society of Neuropathology
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Society of Neuroradiology
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Society for Neurorehabilitation
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Society of Neurosurgery
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Stroke Society
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • Swiss Association of Neuropsychology
    Accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePoster. Furthermore, specific ePosters will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30.

  • ePoster
    All participants are highly encouraged to submit abstracts for ePoster. Specific ePosters will be selected for presentation during the ePoster Session on Thursday, October 24, 11:30-12:30.

  • YouCliN Award
    Accepted abstracts will be selected as oral communication (8min presentation + 2min discussion) during the YouCliN Award Session on Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 16:15-17:15. Abstracts, which cannot be considered for the YouCliN Award will be selected as ePoster presentation (3min presentation + 1min discussion) during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, October 24, 2019, 11:30-12:30. Please indicate therefore during the abstract submission for which society you would like to submit your abstract.

  • YouCliN Video
    Accepted abstracts will be selected as video presentation (in total 7 abstracts) during the YouCliN Video Session on Friday, October 25, 2019, 10:15-11:15.

Abstract Rating

The abstracts will be reviewed and rated by experts of the different societies.

Abstract Notification

Acceptance will be communicated to the corresponding / submitting author end of July 2019.

Abstract Publication

Accepted abstracts will be published on the website and in the journal "Clinical and Translational Neuroscience". 

Contact

Should you require further help with your abstract submission or have any questions, please contact the IMK congress secretariat: abstracts@imk.ch | congress@imk.ch