Carmen Sandi, the MemStick coordinator, gave an interview about the influence of stress on learning abilities and memory. A report by Ivàn Turmo. To listen the interview (in Spanish). To learn more: related publication.

Liset Menendez de la Prida, leader of the partner CSIC team, will chair the minisymposium “Oscillations and Brain Function: Setting the Neuronal Tempo in Health and Disease CME” (summary) from the session “Neural Excitability, Synapses, and Glia: Cellular Mechanisms” that will be organized during the 2009 SFN's 39th annual meeting, the world's largest neurosciences forum, scheduled for Oct. 17-21 in Chicago.
List of SFN’09 minisymposia.

Carmen Sandi has been recently interviewed by Michele Solis for a MSN Health article “The Anxiety Switch” dealing with the genetic influences on memory and anxiety.

the following paper on a topic related to the MemStick Consortium has just been published in Trends Neurosci 32: 312-320 (2009):
From high trait anxiety to depression: A neurocognitive hypothesis. by Sandi C and Richter-Levin G.

The 39^th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience will take place in Chicago on October 17-21st 2009.

The 41st Meeting of the European Brain and Behavior Society (EBBS) that will take place in September 13-18th 2009 in Rhodes, Greece.
Carmen Sandi, the MemStick coordinator, will co-organize with Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg during this Meeting the "Evolutionary neurobiology of social hierarchies: Studies in humans, monkeys and rodents" Symposium.

Carmen Sandi will co-organize the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society for Neuroscience that will take place at the EPFL, Lausanne, on March 12-13th 2010

the symposium “ Stress and cognition: From structure to function” was organized by Mathias Schmidt from the Max Planck Institute at the 8th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society.
The symposium was chaired by Mathias Schmidt and Michael Gruß.

MEMSTICK consortium has been invited to join the Symposium on "Pathological mechanisms of memory loss in Alzheimer disease, psychiatric disorders and normal ageing" that will take place on March 10, 2009, in Prague as part of the 9th International Conference AD/PD.