Abstract Submission is open.

Deadline for submission: Sunday, June 15, 2025 (midnight)

Abstract Guidelines | Structure of Abstract | Form of Presentation | Abstract Rating / Notification / Publication | YouCliN Research Award Guidelines 

Abstract Guidelines

• The scientific committee highly encourages the submission of original scientific material
• Can be submitted again: previously presented abstracts at a foreign congress within the last or current year.
• Abstracts have to be submitted and presented in English.
• At least one author has to be registered for the 6th SFCNS Congress when the abstract is accepted.
• Pharmaceutical abstracts are only accepted if presented by an independent author unaffiliated with the sponsoring industry.
• Cannot be submitted again: abstracts that have been published in a journal and abstracts that have been submitted at an earlier congress of an involved society.

Structure of the Abstract

If applicable, the abstract should consist of the following parts:

1. Title
   • please do not use only capital letters - for example please write "Swiss Federation of Clinical Neuro-Societies" and NOT "SWISS FEDERATION OF CLINICAL NEURO-SOCIETIES"
   • if your abstract contains a case report, please indicate in the title
2. The content of the abstract
   (limited to 2,500 characters including spaces) should consist of the following parts:
   
   • Aims
   • Methods
   • Results - Arithmetic characters are to be separated with spaces. Example: Permitted is the notation "p < 0.5", whereas "p<0.5" is not permitted
   • Conclusion
3. Authors - please include all authors in the correct order
4. Affiliations - please include the authors’ complete affiliations by indicating the corresponding companies/institutions, department, location and country
5. Acknowledgements or references - can be added in the separate field below the abstract body/content
6. References - should be indicated using the following format: author name, journal name, year of publication, volume, starting page, without manuscript title; e.g. (Smith AG. et al. J Fant 2002:79:567)
7. Please note that figures, tables or graphs cannot be included

Form of Presentation

All participants are highly encouraged to submit abstracts. All accepted abstracts will be displayed as ePosters (except for YouCliN and the Swiss Society of Neurosurgery SSNS, see below).

Specific abstracts will be selected as ePoster presentation (3 min presentation + 1 min discussion)
during the ePoster sessions on Thursday, 30.10.2025, 12:00-13:00.

YouCliN and SSNS will further allocate the best abstracts in their sessions as oral presentations. These abstracts will not be displayed as ePosters.

Abstract Rating

The abstracts will be reviewed and rated by experts from the different societies / topic fields

Abstract Notification

Acceptance of the abstracts will be communicated to the corresponding / submitting author end of July 2025.
Co-authors or presenters will not be notified and have to be informed by the corresponding/submitting author.

Abstract Publication

Accepted abstracts will be published on the congresswebsite and in the CTN Journal "Clinical and Translational Neuroscience".

YouCliN Research Award Guidelines

If you are interested to apply for the YouCliN Research Award, please apply via the YouCliN website until May 15, 2025 here.

1. Prizes will be awarded for the best independent clinical research papers entered for the YouCliN Research Award. The total prize fund will be CHF 3,000 (1st prize 2,000 / 2nd prize 1,000).
2. Any neuroscientific paper published in 2024/2025, either in Switzerland or by members of a Swiss institution during a research period abroad, is eligible to be considered for the award. Invited lectures do not qualify for the award.
3. Doctors of any age working in Switzerland may be considered for the award, if at least 50% of their work is clinical, alongside research. Established scientists (postdoctoral researchers or professors) do not qualify. Only lead authors will be named as winners, but co-authors will be mentioned on the award certificate and in the connected publicity.
4. The shortlist of submissions will be drawn up by a nominated jury. The jury will first select the most interesting submission to be orally presented in the YouCliN Research Award Session on Thursday 30.10.2025, 14:45-15:45, which will comprise 6 presentations (8 mins presentation, 2 mins discussion). Both the scientific and the linguistic quality of each submission will be taken into account. Submissions that are not chosen for presentations will not be automatically considered as ePoster presentations at the SFCNS Congress.
5. At the YouCliN Research Award Session, the jury will judge entries using the following quality criteria: originality, scientific methodology, relevance, presentation style (presentation language English).
6. if you want your research work to be considered for any presentation types at the SFCNS Congress 2025, next to the YouCliN Research Award, we suggest that you submit an application for the YouCliN Research Award via the YouCliN website (see link above) as well as an abstract for the SFCNS Congress 2025 for the same research work/project.

Contact

Should you require further help with your abstract submission or have any questions, please contact the IMK congress secretariat: abstracts@imk.ch | congress@imk.ch