The Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN) is a registered non-profit organization that was founded in 1992 by several leading Israeli neuroscientists. From about 300 members at its establishment, it has since grown to more than 500 members - neuroscientists and graduate students from all the research institutes and universities in Israel, as well as foreign members, all of whom who are involved in basic and clinical research of the nervous system at every level.

The primary goal of our Society is to promote our knowledge and understanding of how the peripheral and central nervous systems operate under normal and pathological conditions, from the molecular and genetic levels and up to high cognitive functions. This includes development, sensation and perception of various stimuli, motor behavior and control, different aspects of learning and memory, sleep, neurodegenerative diseases, and psychiatric disorders.

To that end, the Society holds an annual meeting each fall, at which neurobiologists and their graduate students, from Israel and abroad, present their recent research findings in the form of oral presentations and posters. Abstracts of these presentations are published in a special abstract volume or as a supplement to an international scientific journal. This meeting also offers an occasion to promote the exchange of information among researchers, an opportunity that often yields the initiation of collaborative studies. In order to encourage students to take part in these meetings, the Society covers part of the expenses involved in their attendance. Either prior to or following the main scientific sessions there is a full day bi-national satellite symposium, at which Israeli researchers meet and interact with scientists from other countries.

In order to encourage and enable graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to attend international scientific meetings, present their research results there and   encounter other scientists, the Society grants financial support annually to several outstanding researchers among this group.

One additional goal at which the Society aims is to advance public awareness throughout the country, of youth and adults alike, regarding the progress and benefits of brain research, and to describe in a popular way the latest advances in brain research, and how brain disorders can be revealed and treated. This goal is achieved by means of lectures and presentations, given voluntarily by Society members, during the "Brain Awareness Week"- an event held around the world at about the same time each year.

ISFN is the representative body in Israel of new scientific knowledge and recent developments in neuroscience research and their implications. It works closely with The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the various research institutes and universities, as well as other international scientific societies such as the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), the International Brain Research Organization (IBRO), and European Dana Alliance for the Brain (EDAB).

ISFN activities are based on the annual membership fee, commercial companies, private donors and brain research centers of the various Israeli Universities also support ISFN.

Prof. Shlomo Rotshenker

ISFN President

אודות העמותה

העמותה ישראלית למדעי המוח (The Israel Socciety for Neuroscience)   היא עמותה ללא כוונות רוח הרשומה כחוק בפנקס העמותות בישראל. היא נוסדה בשנת 1992 על ידי מספר מדענים  שעסקו בחקר מערכת העצבים, ונקראה במקור "האגודה הישראלית למדעי העצב". עם הקמתה מנתה האגודה כ - 300 חברים - חוקרים בכירים וסטודנטים. עם השנים, ועלית מספר המדענים העוסקים במחקר בסיסי וקליני  של מערכת העצבים על רמותיה השונות, עלה גם מספר החברים הרשומים בעמותה. כיום היא מונה כ - 500 חוקרים מכל מוסדות המחקר וההוראה האקדמית בארץ, סטודנטים לתארים מתקדמים, וכן מדענים מחו"ל