On behalf of the Scientific Committee, we have great pleasure in inviting you to the 8th annual meeting of the International College of Psychoneuropharmacology (ICGP) in Sydney, Australia, Sep 3-6, 2008. The meeting venue is the state-of-the-art Scientia Convention Centre at the University of New South Wales.

The annual meetings of the ICGP are at the forefront of clinical and translational research, and attract the leaders in the fields of geriatric neuropsychiatry and neuropsychopharmacology. The theme for this Sydney meeting is “Protecting and repairing the ageing brain”.

We are now inviting abstracts for symposia and papers (oral and poster) for the meeting. The guidelines for submission of symposia and abstracts are as below. The submissions can be made by the on-line abstract submission form. Alternatively, they can be submitted by email as a MSWord file to icgp2008@unsw.edu.au

Deadlines:
Submission of panel proposals: Monday 31st March, 2008.
Submission of abstracts for accepted panels: Monday 2nd June, 2008.
Submission of abstracts for posters: Monday 16th June, 2008.


Guidelines for Abstracts:
1. An Abstract comprises the following:
    a. Names of authors, with the name of the presenter underlined.
    b. Affiliations
    c. Content of the abstract, structured under the following headings:
        i. Background
        ii. Methods
        iii. Results
        iv. Conclusions.
2. Do not exceed the word limit of 250 words.
3. Indicate whether it is for proposed oral or poster presentation, or either.
4. Make a brief statement of any potential conflict of interest .

The scientific committee will make the final decision about the acceptance of the Abstract for the meeting


Guidelines for symposia:

1. A symposium is a detailed exposition on a particular theme by 3-4 speakers, each contributing on a different aspect of the topic.
2. The topic of the symposium should be of direct interest to the members of the ICGP, i.e. it should be on a geriatric neuropsychiatry topic. However, It does not need to be related to Psychoneuropharmacology.
3. Preference will be given to topical symposia in areas in which there have been recent advances.
4. A symposium is generally of two hours duration and comprises 3-4 speakers. Some symposia will be 1.5 hours in duration will only have three speakers.
5. A chair and co-chair should be identified for each symposium. These individuals can also be speakers.
6. The submission should include an overall Abstract summarising the content of the symposium in up to 200 words, and listing the presenters, their affiliations and titles of their presentations. If selected, each presenter will be required to submit a structured Abstract. In the submission, please state if there is any potential of perceived conflict of interest.
7. Each speaker must sign an ‘intent to present’ form to indicate his/her willingness to present.
8. Limited funds are available to support travel, and the symposia eligible for such support will be selected by the scientific committee. Other symposia will be invited without financial support to the speakers.
9. All presentations will be in English.

Perminder Sachdev
Chair, Scientific Committee

Osvaldo Almeida
Henry Brodaty
GA (Tony) Broe
Edmond Chiu
Peter W Schofield
Melissa Slavin
Michael Valenzuela
Elsdon Storey
Michael Woodward
Members of Local Organising Committee ICGP 8th Annual Scientific Meeting

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