16th Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (ABIM) 2022

We apply for financial support for the 16th international winter conference on Brain Imaging in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, called ABIM, that we organize in January 9-14, 2022 in Champéry, Switzerland. The SNF kindly supported the previous editions of this annual meeting by financing travel and accommodation costs of the invited keynote speakers.Last years meeting was cancelled due to the Covid pandemic, but most of the speakers who agreed to participate in the 2021 edition agreed to come in 2022 instead. The first ABIM meeting took place in 2006. The meeting lasts for 5 days and always takes place in the same period (mid January) in Champéry. This tradition makes the meeting well recognized in the scientific community in Switzerland, Europe, and worldwide. It is usually attended by 150-180 researchers in the field of clinical and cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging. It brings together worldwide leaders in the field as well as many junior researchers from Switzerland and abroad. The structure of the meeting allows for extensive scientific exchange between the researchers and intense discussions on the different research topics. Every day covers a specific theme in the field of brain imaging and discusses aspects ranging from theoretical concepts, methodology, experimental designs and clinical applications. Two internationally renowned scientists are invited for each dayto give keynote lectures on the specific topic. These lectures are followed by short communications from selected abstracts of younger researchers. Two extensive poster sessions with around 80 posters allow the younger researchers (mostly PhD students) to present their work to the colleagues and discuss it with the senior scientists. These discussions allow the younger researchers to get useful new contacts for their future career. The topics of ABIM 2022 include consciousness, language development, social neuroscience and theory-of-mind, emotion processing and stress and resilience. The 9 keynote speakers comefrom USA, Australia, UK, Germany, France and Italy. Five speakers are women, four are men.