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The 4th Cuban Congress and First Ibero-Latin American Workshop of Clinical Neurophysiology will be carried in Varadero, Cuba, from March 11-14, 2008 (http://www.cneuro.edu.cu , http://cencomed.sld.cu/neurofisiologia08/ ). This congress is conceived to give the Cubans and visitors the possibility of discussing the most current topics in our specialty. We shall emphasize two topics:
· “Neurophysiology: From the laboratory to social impact”
· “Human Brain Mapping in developing countries”

Additionally we can announce that in the congress we shall present the steps carried out to create a Latin American Project of Brain Mapping sponsored by PAHO/WHO and which will carry out a previous, independent meeting, two days before the celebration of the Congress. Also PAHO/WHO will organize a session in our Congress on “Active screening and Intervention for Disabilities due to Brain Disorders”.

We announce that Professors Fernando Lopes da Silva y Thalía Harmony have honored us by accepting to become the new Honorary Presidents of the Congress.

The new scientific committee is now: For Cuba: Pedro Valdés Sosa
(President), María Cecilia Pérez, Maria Luisa
Bringas Vega (Secretary), María Antonieta Bobes, Carlos Santos, Joel Gutiérrez.

International: Thalía Harmony (Mexico), Silvia Kochen (Argentina),
Dráulio de Araújo (Brazil), Jaime Vila (Spain),
Maryse Lassonde (Canada), Fernando Lopes da Silva (Netherlands), Jorge Riera
(Japan), Steven A Hillyard (USA), Erwin Roy John
(USA), Tamer Demiralp (Turkey), Fabio Babiloni (Italy), Michael
Breakspears (Australia), Ricardo Reisin (Argentina).

Our Congress is honored to host the Named Lectures: Mario Skurovich" (Mexico), "Guido Fernández" (Cuba, one of the founders of the Cuban Neuroscience Center), “Elio García-Austt” (Uruguay), “Francisco Varela” (Chile) as well as the “Ramón y Cajal”
award. We will publish the abstracts in the journal "Clinical Neurophysiology".

Our Congress will be held at a time when clinical neurophysiology is making great progress in understanding the function of the nervous system in health and disease. Nowadays, neuroscientists recognize that the electrical and magnetic signals produced by the nervous system provide exquisite time resolution for assessing the brain processes underlying perception, motor command, decision making, cognition, etc., which complement other imaging and measurement techniques. Moreover, recent advances in the fusion of neuroimages allow the combination of information provided by neurophysiology and other neuroimaging techniques.

In Cuba, a remarkable development of Clinical Neurophysiology has occurred during the last decades. We have developed a nationwide network of clinical neurophysiologic laboratories. More than 44 units located at hospitals, and other medical and research institutions, are already functioning in all provinces and cities of our country. Our Society has more than 150 members, and it is recognized for its clinical and scientific achievements among all Latin-American countries, and the rest of the world. Our main goal is to provide a suitable scientific platform to discuss all topics related to clinical neurophysiology. Cubans, as hosts, will sincerely offer you a warm hospitality!