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The ISTC Scientific Workshop “Neuroplasticity: Nervous Substrate for Health and Diseases” was held on October 17-19 at the I.Beritashvili Institute of Physiology in Tbilisi. The Workshop brought together neuroscientists from Georgia and the Commonwealth of Independent States to present and to discuss basic and applied Neuroscience.The organizing Committee focused the following topics:

• Atomic Force Microscopy of living cells: new approach of plasticity research
• Research on structural plasticity
• Neuroplasticity – Learning and Memory
• The damaged or disabled brain (can Neuroplasticity help?)
• Chemistry of DNA and expression of genes: influence of experience
• Sensory, perceptual, language functions and life experience
• Emotional function, adult’s social relationships and life experience

In the frame of the ISTC Workshop, the following special events took place:

• ISTC session (at the Center of Science, Education and Culture of Georgian Technical University); during which some managers and participants of ISTC projects will present their results;
• The Poster Session of young scientists (for PhD students and scientists under 35);
• The Debates: “The Future of Neuroplasticity Research: NanoBiology and NanoMedicine”.