Dear Colleagues

As President of the Applied Neuroscience Society of Australia (ANSA) it is with great pleasure that I invite you to take part in the next exciting and significant event: The 2010 ANSA Annual Conference.

This year’s event will be the next important step for our Society in promoting and advancing the field of Applied Neuroscience in Australasia. We are witnessing the explosion of Neuroscience which is dramatically changing the landscapes of brain health. This gives us opportunities to embrace more evidence-based personalised approaches based on advanced neurotechnologies that are rapidly becoming available for clinical practitioners. This is why we have chosen the 2010 Conference Theme:

Brain Health in the 21st Century:
Evidence-Based Interventions and Emerging Neurotechnologies

The ANSA Annual Conference aims to:

• promote the scientific study and professional practice of Applied Neuroscience through methods including biofeedback, neurotherapy, applied psychophysiology and nutrition. We offer training and further education for health professionals in the application of biofeedback, neurotherapy, applied psychophysiology, nutrition and other self-regulatory therapeutic tools.

• encourage research and expansion of clinical and educational applications of applied neurosciences
  
  We are working hard to make sure that the wonderful success of the 2009 conference will be matched in 2010 in quality of presentations and workshops as well as venue. The feedback we received from the 2009 conference participants encouraged the conference committee to choose Mantra at Salt once again to host our event this year. The location of the resort gives delegates the opportunity to immerse in depths of our field while enjoying the stunning beaches and scenery of Australia’s best kept secret- the New Tweed Coast: Northern Rivers of NSW.
  
  The highlights of 2010 conference:
  This year we have combined forces with the Australian Academy of Functional Neurology who will contribute speakers to both the Symposium and Conference program, as well as conduct a concurrent one-day pre-conference workshop.

Also don’t miss our feature event, a one day international symposium on PTSD, Brain Injury and Post-Concussion Syndrome, chaired by Professor Sandy MacFarlane, world authority on PTSD.

The symposium will explore the unique contribution of neurotechnologies to developing personalised assessment and treatment in this extremely important clinical field. ANSA will bring together various stakeholders as a think tank to share understanding and build partnerships across sectors such as health, education, welfare, justice, rehabilitation, and employment. ANSA aims to establish a working group to develop Australian guidelines for the assessment and treatment of traumatic brain injury that draws on the evidence of neurophysiological research and applied neuroscience. We are also negotiating for Professor Juri Kropotov to present on-line the results of a large study on Brain Injury now being analysed in Norway.

The conference program will feature distinguished keynote presenters including:

Professor Richard Clark, Head of the School of Psychology at Flinders University, whose interests focus on the location and dynamics of working memory function in the human brain.

Dr Roger deBeus and Dr Mary deBeus from North Carolina, U.S. will present a two-day post-conference workshop on Functional QEEG: how to integrate client symptoms with brain mapping to improve Neurotherapy outcomes. Roger and Mary deBeus are both BCIA fellows and have many year of experience in Neurofeedback and QEEG and have developed a unique approach to interpretation of QEEG.