NeuroHorizons Conference 2026 — on mental health: in plain language, aligned with science
IT’S OFFICIAL: NeuroHorizons Conference 2026 is coming in MARCH 2026! Join the only popular-science conference about mental health like this. We leave scientific jargon in the lab and bring reliable knowledge with us.
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13–15 March 2026 — SAVE THE DATE!
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Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw
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Organizer: SKN Neurobiology, University of Warsaw
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MANDATORY REGISTRATION: registration closed
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Participation in the event is completely FREE
- For people who want to understand what happens in the brain and how to care for mental health, but who do not work daily in neurobiology or medicine.
- Interdisciplinarity: we invite people from every field — law, economics, mathematics, linguistics, Academy of Fine Arts, natural sciences, psychology, students of the University of Warsaw and other universities, and people outside academia.
- How to help a person in a mental health crisis as a non-specialist
- How psychotropic drugs work
- What obsessive–compulsive disorders are (and what they are not)
- How to cope with panic attacks and anxiety (including workshops)
- How physical activity affects mental health
- Electroconvulsive therapy in psychiatric hospital settings — how it saves lives in the 21st century
- Inflammation and mental health
- How to help someone in a suicidal crisis
- The impact of prions on mental health
- …and much more
- A weekend full of lectures and workshops led by experts from fields such as psychiatry, psychology, pharmacy, biology and psychotherapy
- All content follows EBM (Evidence Based Medicine) — no pseudo-claims
- No prior knowledge is required — the conference is aimed at the general public
