The 23rd ECNP Congress which will be organised from 28th August to 1st September 2010 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The scientific programme is the most important part of the ECNP Congress. As a rule it consists of plenary lectures, a limited (28) number of symposia, educational update sessions, brainstorming sessions and poster sessions. In addition, Breaking News symposia, focussing on the latest developments in preclinical and clinical research in neuropsychopharmacology, will be organ...
Mind is part of Nature, not apart from it. To deny this is to make the mind and consciousness alien intrusions into an otherwise mechanistic universe. Consciousness may be a remarkable phenomenon but we will start from the assumption that it is natural, not supernatural. To approach consciousness thus is to be intellectually consistent, aiming to account for the physical, biological and psychological phenomena we encounter without explanatory gaps that require the invention of special forces or ...