Next October 19, the Fourth French-Israeli Symposium on the brain called 'Genetics and the Brain: Is everything already decided at birth?' will beheld at the Palais Brongniart in Paris. Every year the Symposium, which is open to all, brings together world renowned French and Israeli scientists on the central issue of brain research and recent discoveries. Earlier symposiums were dedicated to Parkinson's disease, Memory and its disorders, The conscious, the subconscious and creativity.
The Association Franco Israélienne pour la Recherche en Neurosciences (AFIRNe, French-Israeli association for neuroscience research) chaired by Jean-Claude Picard and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem are jointly organizing the event that will be an opportunity to display joint projects of French-Israeli teams and present progress in the field. Several distinguished scientists will be attending the Symposium: Professor Idan Segev, a renowned research scientist at the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation (ICNC), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Arnold Munnich, Department Head, Necker Hospital, Scientific Advisor to the Elysée, among others.