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NIH funding for research in neuroscience and disorders of the nervous system in 2011 was $5,548 million, i.e., 18% of the budget

20 first Research / Disease Areas out of 235

NIH RePORT 2013

Brain research supported by the European Union 2007–2012 (121 projects)



ESF past, current and future

activities related to

neuroscience

ESF past, current and future activities related to neuroscience

•  European Research Network for Investigating Human Sensorimotor Function in Health and Disease (2006-2009)

•  European Neuroscience and Society Network (2007-2012)

•  Evolution of Social Cognition: comparisons and integration across a wide range of human and non-human animal species (2008-2013)

•  European Social Cognition Network 2 (2009-2014)

•  Experimental Pragmatics in Europe (2009-2013)

The Research Networking Programmes are a networking platform for nationally funded research groups to meet and discuss major scientific and research infrastructure issues with the goal to advance the frontiers of science which require transnational collaboration.

Research Networking Programmes


•  Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context (2006-2009)

•  Modelling Intelligent Interaction. Logic in the Humanities, Social and Computational Sciences (2008-2011)

•  Stress and Mental Health (2008-2011)

•  Understanding and Misunderstanding – Cognition, Communication and Culture (2011-2014)

•  Functional Genomic Variation in the Epilepsies (2011-2014)

The European Collaborative Research (EUROCORES) scheme was established to enable researchers in different European countries to develop collaboration and scientific synergy in areas where international scale and scope are required for top class science in a global context.

EUROCORES Programmes


•  Decision Making: “Exploiting” Bounded Rationality (2006-2009)

•  Eye-Movement Control in Reading: basic and applied issues of fixation and saccade generation (2006-2009)

•  The Short- and Long-Range Dynamics of Attention (2007-2010)

•  The Social Dimension of Emotion Regulation: brain, mind and behaviour (2009-2012)

•  Intentional Inhibition of Human Action (2010-2013)

•  Optimising the Detection of Criminal Intent and Deception among Criminal Networks (2010-2013)

The European Collaborative Research Projects (ECRP) scheme was established to promote investigator-driven, multinational collaborative research in the social sciences in Europe and beyond.

European Collaborative Research Projects


•  Multilingualism from an Interdisciplinary Perspective (Oct 2007)

•  Models of Language Evolution, Acquisition and Processing (Nov 2007)

•  Sign Language vs. Gesture: where is the boundary and how can we know more? (Dec 2007)

•  Mirror Neurons and Social Cognition (Sept 2008)

•  Modularity for Versatile Motor Learning: from neuroscience to robotics and back (April 2009)

•  The Dreaming Mind-Brain, Consciousness and Psychosis: bridging the gap from the phenomenology of mentation to neurones (May 2009)

•  Social, Cognitive and Affective Dimensions of Collaborative Learning Interactions: towards an integrated analysis (May 2009)

•  The Communication of Deaf-blind People as a Model for Exploring Language Modality, Social Communication and Neural Plasticity (May 2009)

•  Music and the Brain: new perspectives for stimulating cognitive and sensory processes (July 2009)

•  Neuroesthetics: when art and the brain collide (Sept 2009)

Events – Exploratory Workshops


•  Words in Action: interdisciplinary approaches to understanding word processing and storage (Sept 2009)

•  The Adolescent Brain. New Insights from Clinical and Animal Models (Oct 2009)

•  Qualities in Perception Science (Nov 2009)

•  Multidisciplinary Workshop on Suffering (Nov 2009)

•  Brains4Brain – Treating Pediatric Neurodegenerative Diseases (March 2010)

•  Exploring the Roots of Linguistic Diversity: biolinguistic perspectives (Sept 2010)

•  Cognitive Basis of Understanding Social Relations: developmental, comparative and evolutionary approaches (June 2011)

•  Nonverbal Intentions: the emergence of the emotional embodied mind (Sept 2011)

•  Noise in Decision-making: theory meets experiment (June 2013)

These small, interactive output oriented meetings are aimed at opening up new directions in research to explore emerging research fields with potential impact on new developments in science.

Events – Exploratory Workshops

•  ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference for Young Researchers on Robotics: experimental cognitive robotics (March 2008)

•  ESF/JSPS Conference on Social Cognitive Neuroscience (Feb 2009)

•  ESF/COST Conference on Law and Neuroscience: our growing understanding of the human brain and its impact on our legal system (Oct 2009)

•  ESF-EMBO Symposium on Functional Neurobiology in Minibrains: from flies to robots and back again (Oct 2010)

•  ESF-FENS Stresa Conferences in Neurobiology, The Neurobiology of Emotion (Nov 2012)

•  ESF-FENS Stresa Conferences in Neurobiology, Neurobiology of Synapses and Rare Dysfunctions (Oct 2013)

•  ESF-FENS Stresa Conferences in Neurobiology, Neurobiology of Action (Oct 2013)

The ESF Research Conferences Scheme provides the opportunity for leading scientists and young researchers to meet for discussions on the most recent developments in their fields of research. It acts as a catalyst for creating new synergistic contacts throughout Europe and the rest of the world.


Events – Research Conferences

•  European Latsis Prize 2009: “The Human Brain – The Human Mind”

•  NSF/ESF Workshop on Informatics for Bioinspired Design: Reverse Engineering of the Human Brain (May 2010)

•  ESF-EMRC position paper on the Implications of the EMF Directive 2004/40/EC for European Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Research (2010)

•  Cross-committee strategic initiative “The Neurochemical Self. Emerging Research on the Crossroad of Biomedical Neurosciences, Social Sciences and the Humanities” (2010-2011)

•  Session at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), “Thinking about Thinking: How do we know what we know?” (Feb 2011)

•  Strategic workshop “Naturalistic Approaches to Culture?” (Sept 2011)

•  Strategic workshop report “The Human Brain – From Cells to Society: towards better mental health in Europe (2012)

•  Strategic workshop “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: collaboration practices between the social sciences and the life sciences” (March 2012)


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