Abstract submission

Deadline for Abstract submission: Sunday, 28.06.2026  (23:59 CET)

Submit an abstract

Abstract submission is open from 19.02. - 28.06.2026 (midnight)

Abstract Guidelines | Structure of Abstract | Form of Presentation |
Abstract Rating / Notification / Publication

Abstract Guidelines

  • The scientific committee highly encourages the submission of original scientific material
  • Abstracts have to be submitted and presented in English.
  • Abstracts can be submitted as ePoster or oral presentation (for SAYN GemSession only)
  • Can be submitted again: abstracts that have been presented at a foreign congress during the last year
  • 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
  • Pharmaceutical abstracts are only accepted if the majority of the authors are doctors and scientists and played a major role (first or last author) and actually did the work.
  • At least one author has to be registered for the meeting

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 Neurological Society " and NOT "SWISS NEUROLOGICAL SOCIETY"
      • if your abstract contains a case report, please indicate in the title
    2. The content of the abstract
      (limited to 2500 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 company/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

Abstracts will be selected for:
- ePoster
- SAYN GemSession (Oral presentations)
- SSCN / SAYN Case Reports (abstracts not chosen for Case Reports may be presented as ePoster)
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ePoster
Abstracts will be selected for a short presentation in the ePoster area at the ePoster Terminals.
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SAYN GemSession
A prize is awarded for the Best Free Communication (Clinical Research and Basic Research) presented at the GemSession of the Swiss Association of Young Neurologists. The prize money is CHF 1,000.
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SSCN / SAYN Case Reports Session - Wednesday, 18.11.2026 - 13:45-15:00
Young neurologists are invited to submit an abstract describing original research or an interesting clinical case they have encountered in clinical neurophysiology.
From the submitted abstracts, 9 abstracts -  3 of each of the categories / techniques - will be selected for presentation during the session (7 minutes / PPT presentation).
A) EEG (Electroencephalogram)
B) ENMG (Electromyography)
C) Neurovascular ultrasound

Three prizes of CHF 1,000 one for each category will be awarded.

Abstract Rating

Submitted abstracts will be evaluated by the abstract jury including the members of the scientific committee after the submission deadline.

Abstract Notification

Acceptance of the abstracts will be communicated to the corresponding / submitting author beginning of August 2026.
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 website and as eJournal in the CTN Journal "Clinical and Translational Neuroscience".

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