Australasian Neuroscience Society (ANS) Inc.

HISTORY :
The Australian Neurosciences Society was founded in 1971 as an informal group of interested Australian neuroscientists. It held annual meetings from 1972-1980 with invited contributions to a central theme. Its organisers resisted the introduction of a formal society with free communications at its meetings mainly because they did not wish to compete with established discipline based societies. However, as the result of a survey of all Australian neuroscientists in October 1979, it was decided to form a formal society named the Australian Neuroscience Society. After a vigorous debate, the singular term Neuroscience was preferred to the pleural Neurosciences used by its informal predecessor. At the 1980 Canberra meeting, a council was elected, which met for the first time February 1980 to draw up a constitution. At the inaugural annual conference held at Flinders University in January 1981, the constitution of the Society was adopted and the Society became incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory. Subsequently, at a meeting in 2013, the Society voted to change its name to the Australasian Neuroscience Society, to reflect the important contributions being made by New Zealand neuroscientists.

They are a non-profit organisation of scientific researchers and clinicians who study the brain, cognition, and nervous system structure and function in health and disease.