The first/presenting author must be a member of one of the societies (Japan Neuroscience Society (JNS), Japanese Society for Neurochemistry (JSN), Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS). A membership number is required to enter for online registration. If you are a non-member but will be the first/presenting author, please apply for a membership immediately.

For those who are currently applying for membership and submit an abstract, choose "applying" and leave the membership number box blank.

For those are behind in payment of membership fee may be rejected his/her presentation abstract. Please make sure not to pay the membership fee.

Plenary lectures and symposia will be presented in English. Japanese may also be used during question and answer sessions, however.

With some exceptions, general oral presentations will also in principle be given in English (we are strongly encouraging presentations in English from the standpoint of the internationalization of the Meeting). Japanese may also be used during question and answer sessions, however.

The author can indicate preference for either oral or poster presentation at the time of abstract submission. However, the final decision of presentation style is made by the Program Committee, and your understanding and corporation are highly appreciated.

The time allocated for general oral presentation is 15 minutes (It is subject to change depending on the number of presentations).

Bring your own PC for presentation. he computer to be used for presentation must be equipped with a D-sub-15 pin video output. Please be sure to bring the necessary converters for your computer if necessary.

Bring your own PC for your presentation. The computer to be used for presentation must be equipped with a D-sub-15 pin video output. Please be sure to bring the necessary converters for your computer if necessary.

Some oral presentations may be added to a symposium if it is on a similar subject. In this case, the program committee will contact each organizer in advance.

You must have completed advance registration before submitting an application for a presentation.
Click the Advance Registration & Abstract Submission button on the Call for Papers screen, or click the Advance Registration button on the Registration screen. At this point select Registration & Abstract Submission.
Firstly, you must set a Registration ID and password. You will need these to confirm or amend your registered details. Be sure to keep them safe.
If you are in the process of applying for membership of one of the three societies and want to register a presentation, select Currently applying and leave the space for membership number blank.
If you are a member of a symposium panel who is not a member, select Non-member symposist and complete the procedures leaving the space for membership number blank

After finishing advance registration, a button will be displayed stating Abstract Submission (UMIN). Click this button to proceed to the Abstract Submission (UMIN) screen. Submission and registration of presentations is made using the online submission system UMIN (University Hospital Medical Information Network). Please note that UMIN and the advance registration system used to register your participation at the convention are different kinds of system.
If you closed the Registration screen after completing advance registration without proceeding to register your presentation, or interrupted the registration of your presentation on the Abstract Submission (UMIN) screen before it was completed, log in to Advance Registration & Abstract Submission at the bottome of this page and click "Abstract Submission" on the left side of the screen. Your Registration ID and password are required to log in.

The items you are required to fill in are as follows: Presentation format and names of authors (no more than 15 authors), affiliated institutions (no more than 10 institutions), contact telephone number and e-mail address, classification of presentation, title of presentation, main text of abstract, research funding, compliance, whether the presentation can be cited or publicized, and whether any conflicts of interest exist.

The maximum number of characters for body is 2,000 (The total number of characters for your abstract is 2,500 including the title the names of authors, institutions, spaces, research funding, etc.) .
Please note that any submissions over the character limit, or exceeding the maximum number of listed authors will not be accepted.
After all required fields are filled in, click "Next" so that you can confirm the number of characters you entered.

After finishing the registration of your presentation, an automatically generated presentation registration number and a password you set yourself will be displayed. This presentation registration number and password are required when amending your presentation or sending an inquiry to the Secretariat. Print out this page or save it to your computer's memory to be sure to keep them safe.
After you have registered your presentation, the UMIN Center will automatically generate an email to you confirming its receipt. If you have not received such an e-mail within 60 minutes, your presentation may not have been received. Please check and register it again if necessary.

Abstracts may be changed only while the call for papers is underway. Click the Modify, Update, Delete your Abstract button on the Call for Papers screen, and use your presentation registration number and password to log in.

After the end of the call for papers, no amendments, changes, or additions whatsoever to the English abstract text, authors (either first author or co-authors), or affiliations are permitted. Please take great care to ensure that no mistakes are made in affiliations and that no important co-authors are omitted.

Submitted abstracts will not be edited or proof-read before printing. The first/presenting authors are responsible for his/her abstract.

The first/presenting author is responsible for getting agreements from co-authors before submission.

The UMIN system is compatible only with the browsers of Internet Explorer 4.0 or above, Netscape 4.0 or above, and Safari version.2.0.3 (417.9.2). Please use either one of these browsers.

After the submission period, change of abstract and addition and/or change of authors cannot be made. Please make sure all authors are entered.

The items you are required to fill in are as follows: Presentation format and names of authors (no more than 15 authors), affiliated institutions (no more than 10 institutions), contact telephone number and e-mail address, classification of presentation, title of presentation, main text of abstract, research funding, compliance, whether the presentation can be cited or publicized, and whether any conflicts of interest exist.

Use a full block style (not leaving a space at the beginning of the first line) when you fill in "Abstract Body". The maximum number of characters for body is 2,000 (The total number of characters for your abstract is 2,500 including the title the names of authors, institutions, spaces, Research funds and etc.). After all required fields are filled in, click "Next" so that you can confirm the number of characters you entered.

If your abstract body has multiple paragraphs, enter <BR> when you start a new paragraph. Then, the paragraph stays even after the registration is completed.

Symbols and Greek Letters shown below have to be entered using the respective codes from the list of "Abstract Body" on registration site. (You may cut and paste from the list.)

Follow the instructions below for special characters. These are also available on the registration site for you to cut and paste.

[Note]
If you want to use "<" or ">" in your abstract (e.g. p<0.05), in order to distinguish special character codes "< > "explained above from simple uses of "<" or ">", please enter the codes of "&gt;" for ">" and "&lt;" for "<".
Example: p&lt;0.05=p<0.05