Neurosciences-2013

43 rd Annual meeting of the Society for Neurosciences (SfN), San Diego " Neurosciences-2013 " 43 rd Annual meeting of the Society for Neurosciences (SfN) was organized in the convention center at San Diego, USA between 9-13 th No-vember, 2013, to foster creativity and collaboration among emerging neurosci-entists. According to the president of SfN the meeting was attended by more than 30,000 attendees. More than 15,000 scientific presentations showing innovative advances in techniques and valuable new research about brain structure, health, diseases, and treatments, were brought into life. In addition to the posters and scientific lectures, the meeting featured 34 professional development workshops and networking functions. There were around 80 sessions each day spread through 40 conference halls and around 2500 posters presented each day. Around 1400 exhibits were present from many international companies displaying their new technologies and product ranges giving us enormous information regarding the latest facilities and cutting edge research tools in the world of neurosci-ence. six posters in different sessions and one student gave an oral presentation in the minisymposium. Nanosymposiums were conducted with different themes under the headings, Neural Excitability, Synaps-es and Glia: Cellular Mechanism, Disorders of the nervous system, Sensory and the motor systems, Integrative systems, cognition and behaviours, Novel method and technology development and History teaching public awareness and Social Impacts in Neuroscience. First day started with the special lecture of Dr. Ed Catmull, president, Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studio on the " creative culture ". He described creativity as a complex phenomenon and not a result of individual geniuses. According to him, barriers to creativity can be removed if mentored in a right direction. Committing mistakes is essential part of creativity thus zero error is not desirable in creative environment. He emphasised on increasing the independence to fix the problem without permission and requirement of honest assessment of the work. On a question that " his creativity leads the people from real to unreal world and creativity in research is to know the reality " he answered that his reality is at the technical level which is their reality. Fred Kavli Public Symposium on creativity was an attraction of the day. He described creativity as one of the defining traits of humanity which is manifested itself in the organization of social systems (e.g., moral, political, and economic), in the arts (from music, painting, and theater to literature and film), and in …