Commission on Neurobiology

Goals

• To encourage research in basic mechanisms of the epilepsies, through educational programs, workshops, and to support of research training.
   
• To help to integrate basic and clinical research themes so as to draw together clinicians and basic scientists

Main Activities

• Workshops on the Neurobiology of Epilepsy (WONOEP), associated with the ILAE International Congresses
   
• Workshops at other major Epilepsy meetings  
   
• Training programs in epilepsy research

Recent Meetings held by the Commission:

• Formal meeting during the 2001 American Epilepsy Society meeting (Philadelphia, December, 2001)
   
• Informal meeting during the 2001 WONOEP meeting (Iguaso Falls, Brazil, May, 2001)
   
• Formal meeting during the 2000 American Epilepsy Society meeting (Los Angeles, December, 2000)
   
• Informal meeting during the Prague Congress
   
• Formal meeting during the 1999 American Epilepsy Society meeting (Orlando, December, 1999)

Sub-Committees

• Organize basic science symposium at European Congress of Epileptology
   
• Organize basic science symposium at Latin American Epilepsy Congress
   
• Organize basic science symposium at Congress of the Asian and Oceanian Epilepsy
   
• Organize the Fifth Workshop on the Neurobiology of Epilepsy (WONOEP V) and edit publication (now in press)
   
• Organize the Sixth Workshop on the Neurobiology of Epilepsy (WONOEP VI)
   
• Develop and review new ILAE fellowship program for research training

Contacts and interactions with other commissions:

• Collaboration with the Commission on the Search for Epilepsy Genes to sponsor a symposium at the Prague Congress
   
• Contacts with Commission chairs for Europe, Latin America, and Asia/Oceania in efforts to develop basic science symposia for regional congresses