Previous Meetings:

BNS Spring Meeting 2010 (30th and 31st March, London)

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President's Invited Lecture:

  • Larry Squire, "Conscious and Unconscious memory systems of the mammalian brain" Sponsored by Cambridge University Press

Inaugural debate in memory of John Marshall:

  • “Single cases, group studies, associations, dissociations”
    With Karalyn Patterson and David Howard

Symposia:

  • Organic amnesia: What does it imply about the neural bases of memory? Organised by Andrew Mayes, with Michael Kopelman, Daniela Montaldi, Lisa Saskida & Tim Bussey, John Aggleton, Augusto Carlesimo, Eleanor Maguire, and Jon Simons
  • The great deception(s): Anosognosia for hemiplegia and other disorders of motor awareness organised by Paul Jenkinson, with Catherine Preston, Giuseppe Vallar, and Katerina Fotopoulou


BNS Autumn Meeting 2009 (22nd October, London)

Freda Newcombe Lecture:

  • Jordan Grafman, The cognitive and neural foundations of human beliefs 

Symposum:

  • Current perspectives on the neural basis of social cognition organised by Roland Zahn.

Elizabeth Warrington Prize Lecture:
  • Brad Duchaine, Understanding social perception via deficits and disruptions

Special reception to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BNS:
  • 5.15pm, Old Boardroom of the National Hospital, Queen Square


BNS Spring Meeting 2009 (25th - 26th March, London)

President’s invited lectures:
  • Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Disrupting the Brain to Improve Behaviour

Elizabeth Warrington Prize Lecture:

  • Elizabeth Jefferies, The Neural Basis of Semantic Cognition

Symposia:

  • Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Recovery / Rehabilitation organised by  Steve Jackson
  • Brain Imaging and Recovery of Function organised by Barbara A Wilson



BNS Autumn Meeting 2008 (2nd - 5th Sept, Edinburgh)

The BNS Autumn meeting was held together with the first formal meeting of the Federation of the European Neuropsychology Societies (ESN) in Edinburgh, Scotland between the 2nd and 5th September 2008.  

Keynote lectures:

  • Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti, The mirror neuron system: A mechanism for action and intention understanding
  • Professor David Milner, Seeing and Doing
  • Professor Tim Shallice, TBC

Cortex Prize Lecture:

  • Dr Emiliano Macaluso from the Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Santa Lucia Institute, Rome, Italy will present: “Orienting of spatial attention and the interplay between the senses”.

Symposia:

  • Bodies, actions and emotions: What do they have in common?
  • Cerebellum and Language
  • Cognition and Sign Language
  • Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Interaction
  • Cognitive Rehabilitation
  • Contributions of TMS to Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Language and the Motor System 
  • Lesion Overlap Analyses
  • Musical Cognition
  • Neural Substrates of Memory Disorders in Neurodegenerative Diseases: confrontation from Multiple Neuroimaging Approaches
  • Neuropsychological Perspectives on Disorders of Emotion and Motivation
  • The Neuropsychology of Bodily Representations and Schemas, and the Legacy of Pierre Bonnier
  • Neuropsychology of Perception and Action
  • Neuroscience of Joint Action
  • Updates on Spatial Neglect Syndrome and Related Disorders



BNS Spring Meeting 2008 (8th - 9th April, London)

President’s invited lectures:

  • Marlene Berhman, Facing Facts: The Psychological and Neural Bases of Face Processing
  • Laurel Buxbaum, Meaning and Action: Inroads at the Semantic/Motor Crossroads.

Elizabeth Warrington Prize Lecture:

  • Dana Samson, Reading Other People's Mind: Insights from Neuropsychology

Symposia:

  • Developmental Neuropsychiatric Disorders, organised by Georgina Jackson 
  • Neuropsychology and Emotion, organised by Pia Rotshtein



BNS Autumn Meeting 2007 (30th - 31st Oct, London)

Symposia:

  • Parietal Function and Dysfunction a Century after Balint, organised by Masud Husain and Stephen Jackson 
  • Face Recognition and Agnosia, organised by Jane Riddoch and Rosaleen McCarthy



BNS Spring Meeting 2007 (18th - 19th April, Nottingham)

Elizabeth Warrington Prize Lecture:

  • Tom Manly, A Tale of Two Bleeps

Symposia:

  • Rehabilitation and The Neglect Syndrome: From Bench to Bedside (and back again!), organised by David Punt
  • Functional NeuroImaging in Aphasia, organised by Cathy Price



BNS Autumn Meeting 2006 (31st Oct - 1st Nov, London)

The Freda Newcombe Lecture:

  • Karalyn Patterson, Beyond the Scores: Clues to Neuropsychological Disorders from the Things Patients Say and Do.

Symposia:

  • Neuropsychology of Motor Disorders, organised by Stephen Jackson 
  • Computational Neuropsychology, organised by Matt Lambon Ralph


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