Commission on Neurobiology

Commission Members

Main Activities
To promote and assist sub- or interregional coordinated actions aimed at developing education, healthcare and research in the field of epilepsy by groups of countries that for common historical, cultural and linguistic backgrounds are naturally prepared to collaborate.

1. The WONOEP (Workshop on the Neurobiology of the Epilepsies), organized by Christophe Bernard, Ed Bertram and Rene Pumain was held as a Satellite Symposium of the International Epilepsy Congress in 2005 in France.
2. A symposium on basic aspects of the epilepsies was organized by Y Murashima and held in September 2004 during the AO Epilepsy Congress in Bangkok, Thailand.
3. The Commission also supported and actively participated in the San Servolo Summer Course on Epilepsy, Venice, Italy, in July 2005. The directors of the course were Marco de Curtis and Esper Cavalheiro.

Esper Cavalheiro, Co-chair
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Asla Pitkanen, Co-chair
Kuopo, Finland