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500 Acta Clin Croat,  Vol. 53,   No. 4,  2014Acta Clin Croat 2014; 53:500-501 News54th INTERNATIONAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC CONGRESS Pula, 18 - 21 June 2014Endorsed by the World Federation of Neurologyand WFN Applied Research Group on the Organization and Delivery of CareThe 54th International Neuropsychiatry Congress in Pula – INPC was held in Pula, June 18-21, 2014, under the auspices of Professor Ivo Josipović, Presi-dent of the Republic of Croatia. The organizers of the Congress are Kuratorium In-ternational Neuropsychiatric Congress, Department of Medical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association of Neuropsychiatry and Zagreb Institute for the Culture of Health. This year’s Congress was supported by the World Federation of Neurology, International Interdisciplinary Medical Association of Russia, European Psychiatric Associa-tion and Central and East European Stroke Society – CEESS. The main sponsors of the Congress were the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb, City of Graz, and Istria County. The Congress had more than 350 partic-ipants from Croatia, Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Her-zegovina, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Greece, Iran, Italy, Ireland, Hungary, Macedonia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, the United States, South Korea, Slo-venia, Serbia, Ukraine and United Kingdom. The main theme of the congress was Lifestyle and Prevention of Brain Impairment. In addition to lectures on the main theme, the Congress included a number of accompanying symposia, in particular the 3rd European Summer School of Psychopathol-ogy, 7th International Symposium on Epilepsy, 2nd Neuro-Interdisciplinary School, 3rd Symposium on the Interface Providers in Neurorehabilitation, psy-chiatric symposia on the new Act on the Protection of Persons with Mental Disorders, Symposium on Forensic Psychiatry, symposia on ADHD, on treat-ment of advanced Parkinson’s disease, activities of the Andrija Štampar Association of Public Health in stroke prevention, on a common approach to di-agnosis, treatment and follow up of Anderson Fabry disease in South-East Europe region, and on cere-bral aneurysms, palliative care, on atrial fibrillation and secondary prevention of stroke, and on different therapeutic approaches in the treatment of neuro-logical and psychiatric diseases. On Saturday, a joint meeting with the Alps-Adria Neuroscience Section, Fig. 1. Opening of the 54th International Neuropsychiatric Congress in Pula.Acta Clin Croat,  Vol. 53,   No. 4,  2014 501WFN Applied Research Group on the Organization and Delivery of Care and Central and Eastern Euro-pean Stroke Society took place.During the Congress, 71 lectures within 14 sym-posia were held by lecturers from all over the world. In addition, there was a poster session with 61 post-ers, 39 in the field of neurology and 22 in the field of psychiatry. The International Neuropsychiatry Congress, held continuously for the past 54 years, makes it a congress with the longest unbroken tradition in the world in the field of neurology, psychiatry and neuropsychia-try. The Congress is known to tackle many interesting topics in psychiatry and neurology, as well as other related fields of medicine through a multi-disciplinary Fig. 2. Academician Vida Demarin, President of the INPC Congress, with Professor Michael Chopp and his wife.Fig. 3. Academician Vida Demarin with representatives of the Andrija Štampar Association of Public Health.Fig. 4. Poster session.Fig. 5. Academician Vida Demarin with Professors Bech-terom and Schröder from Austria and Moises and Brown from the United States of America.approach, while promoting the fundamental idea of the long-established Pula School of Science and Hu-manism 1961, from which the oldest international congress in the field of neurology, psychiatry and neu-ropsychiatry has evolved.Sandra MorovićActa Clin Croat 2014; 53:500-501 News

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