BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:https://github.com/derhansen/sf_event_mgt METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:906-96@www.leopoldina.org CLASS: PUBLIC SUMMARY:Neuroscience: From Structure to Function and Back DESCRIPTION:The human brain is the most complex living structure in the kno wn universe. It has a capacity to store more information than any current s upercomputer and has enabled us to create a cultural evolution that started a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. The brain shapes our thoughts, beliefs, hopes, dreams, and imaginations. Thus, it is our brain that makes us human.  Neuroscience is now the globally leading science and brain rese archers are inspired to try to decipher the brain’s command of all its dive rse functions. The last twenty years have witnessed enormous progress that allows tackling questions that were far beyond reach only a short while ago . But despite this breath-taking progress, the journey to truly understand our own brain is still at its beginning. More than 1,000 disorders of the b rain and nervous system result in more hospitalisations than any other dise ase group, including heart disease and cancer. Still, neuroscience is unabl e to come up with causal cures for the vast majority of these diseases. Wha t is needed is concerted action where scientists studying structure are in close cooperation with those analysing function. Similarly, neuroscientists have to go back and forth between bench and bedside to reciprocally transf er insights from basic to clinical neurosciences. Neuroscience cannot be j ust a national endeavour, but depends on the free exchange of ideas across national borders. The “2nd German-Turkish Science Dialogue” thus represents a timely joint initiative of the German National Academy Leopoldina and th e Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to congregate scientists from Germany a nd Turkey. These researchers study the complexity of brain functions and th ereby unveil the beauty of an organ that makes us who we are. \n\nThe Ger man-Turkish Science Dialogue\n\n On the occasion of the German-Turkish Ye ar of Science, the Leopoldina and the Humboldt Foundation have started a jo int format: the “German-Turkish Science Dialogue”. The framework fosters th e ambition of scientists tackling the the systemic challenges of future dev elopments: in societies, spaces and economies, in environment and health, a s well as in the research-driven advancement of science and the innovation- based development of new technologies. Picture: © E. Genc · Ruhr-Universitä t Bochum\n\nFurther Information and Registration\n\nThe symposium will be h eld in English. For participation, please register via the following link R egistration\n\nContact\n\nSandra LinnRuhr University Bochum, Faculty of Psy chologyTel.: + 49 (0) 234 3224634E-Mail: sandra.linn@ruhr-uni-bochum.de Luc ian BrujanSenior Officer, Department International RelationsTel.: + 49 (0) 345 47239836E-Mail: lucian.brujan@leopoldina.org LOCATION:Bochum DTSTAMP:20251112T170935Z DTSTART:20150616T120000Z DTEND:20150616T170000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR