The International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) is the global federation of neuroscience organizations that aims to promote and support neuroscience around the world through training, teaching, collaborative research, advocacy and outreach. More than 90 international, national and regional scientific organisations constitute IBRO’s Governing Council which, together with the five IBRO Regional Committees, address the needs and advance the work of individual scientists and research communities everywhere. In addition, IBRO has partnerships with like-minded scientific societies and organizations to identify priorities and help bridge gaps in knowledge, investment and resources in the field of

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History

IBRO was founded in 1961 in response to the growing demand from

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s around the world for the creation of a central organization that would cut across world boundaries and improve communication and collaboration among brain researchers. The origin of IBRO can be traced back to a meeting of electroencephalographers in

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in 1947, which led to the establishment of an

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. A later conference in Moscow in 1958 of IFEEG and other groups, successfully achieved unanimous support for a resolution proposing the creation of an international organization representing brain research worldwide. IBRO was established as an independent, non-governmental organization, regulated by a Governing Council. The organization represents the interests of circa 75,000 neuroscientists around the globe.

Quadriennial meeting

In collaboration with neuroscience societies around the world, IBRO holds international congresses once every four years. IBRO World Congresses: * Lausanne, Switzerland (1982) * Budapest, Hungary (1987) * Montréal, Canada (1991) * Kyoto, Japan (1995) * Jerusalem, Israel (1999) * Prague, Czech Republic (2003) * Melbourne, Australia (2007) * Florence, Italy (2011) * Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2015) * Daegu, South Korea (2019) * ''Granada, Spain (2023)''

Presidents

IBRO Presidents: *

Hans-Lukas Teuber Hans-Lukas Teuber (August 7, 1916 – January 4, 1977) was a professor of psychology and head of the psychology department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was one of the founders of neuropsychology and studied perception. He coine ...

(1969-1971) * Alfred Eugène Fessard (1971-1974) *

Walle Nauta Walle Jetze Harinx Nauta (June 8, 1916 – March 24, 1994) was a leading Dutch-American neuroanatomist, and one of the founders of the field of neuroscience. Nauta is best known for his silver staining, which helped to revolutionize neuroscience. He ...

(1974-1980) *

Masao Ito was a Japanese neuroscientist, and director of the Riken Brain Science Institute. Overviews Masao Ito was the main force behind Japanese neuroscience and its international recognition for many years. He was very active in the International Br ...

(1980-1984) * Dominick P. Purpura (1984-1999) *

Torsten Wiesel Torsten Nils Wiesel (born 3 June 1924) is a Swedish neurophysiologist. With David H. Hubel, he received the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their discoveries concerning information processing in the visual system; the prize was s ...

(1999-2005) *

Albert Aguayo Albert Juan Aguayo (born July 16, 1934) is a Canadian neurologist at McGill University. Albert Juan Aguayo is a Canadian neurologist at McGill University. Hailing from the Bahia Blanca in Argentina, Dr. Aguayo graduated in medicine from the Natio ...

(2005-2008) * Carlos Belmonte (2008-2014) * Pierre Magistretti (2014-2020) * Tracy Bale (2020-present)

Publications

* ''Neuroscience'' is the official journal of IBRO, published on their behalf by

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. *'' IBRO Neuroscience Reports'' is an

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published by Elsevier. *''Neuroscience: Science of the Brain'' is a booklet for older children and the general public. It aims to describe our current understanding of brain function. Each of the twenty chapters focuses on a different aspect of the brain and is written by leading neuroscientists in that field. It is available in over twenty languages.

Honorary Members

Carlos Chagas Carlos Justiniano Ribeiro Chagas, or Carlos Chagas (; July 9, 1879 – November 8, 1934), was a Brazilian sanitary physician, scientist, and bacteriologist who worked as a clinician and researcher. He discovered Chagas disease, also called ''Ame ...

Herbert Jasper Herbert Henri Jasper (July 27, 1906 – March 11, 1999) was a Canadian psychologist, physiologist, neurologist, and epileptologist. Born in La Grande, Oregon, he attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon and received his PhD in psychology f ...

Ivan Solomonovich Beritashvili Ivane Beritashvili ( ka, ივანე ბერიტაშვილი; January 10, 1885 – December 29, 1974), was one of the great Georgian physiologists, one of the founders of the modern biobehavioral science. He was a founder and direct ...

* John Eccles *

Henri Gastaut Henri Jean Pascal Gastaut (April 15, 1915, Monaco – July 14, 1995 Marseille) was a French neurologist and epileptologist. Biography Gastaut was educated in medicine at the University of Marseille, obtaining his medical doctorate in 1945. ...

Willem Storm van Leeuwen Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, Gui ...

* Klaus Unna *

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Viktor Hamburger Viktor Hamburger (July 9, 1900 – June 12, 2001)Garland E. AllenViktor Hamburger, 1900–2001. National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs, 2015, 39 pp. was a German-American professor and embryologist. His collaboration with neuroscien ...

Liliana Lubińska Liliana Lubińska (14 October 1904 – 19 November 1990) was a Polish neuroscientist known for her research on the peripheral nervous system and her discovery of bidirectional axoplasmic transport.; http://www.ane.pl/pdf/5102.pdf http://www.an ...

Walter A. Rosenblith Walter A. Rosenblith (September 21, 1913 – May 1, 2002) was a biophysicist and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected to all three National Academies (United States National Academy of Sciences, Nationa ...

Theodore Holmes Bullock Theodore Holmes Bullock (16 May 1915 – 20 December 2005) is one of the founding fathers of neuroethology. During a career spanning nearly seven decades, this American academic was esteemed both as a pioneering and influential neuroscientist, exami ...

* Robert Naquet *

Derek Richter Derek Richter (14 January 1907 – 15 December 1995), English neuroscientist, was one of the founding fathers of the science of brain chemistry. Identifying monoamine oxidase and demonstrating its function in the brain early in his career, ...

References

External links

* {{Authority Control Neuroscience organizations Organizations established in 1961 Members of the International Council for Science