| Abbreviation | BNA |
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| Formation | February 23, 1968; 57 years ago (1968-02-23) |
| Type | Nonprofit |
| Registration no. | 04307833 |
| Legal status | Charity |
| Purpose | Neuroscience |
| Headquarters | The Dorothy Hodgkin Building, Whitson Street,Bristol BS1 3NY. |
| Membership | 2,500 |
| Website | https://www.bna.org.uk |
TheBritish Neuroscience Association (BNA) is ascientific society with around 2,500 members. Starting out as an informal gathering of scientists meeting at the Black Horse Public House in London to discuss brain-related topics (the 'London Black Horse Group'),[1] on 23 February 1968 it was formerly established as the Brain Research Association, and subsequently relaunched as the British Neuroscience Association in 1997.[2][3]
The BNA is the largest UK organisation of its kind, supporting and promoting neuroscience and neuroscientists.
It is a registered charity (number 1103852),[4] with charitable objects as follows:
‘To preserve and protect health and advance public education in neurosciences related to health and disease (in particular but not exclusively) by:’
The BNA is a member of theInternational Brain Research Organization (IBRO), theFederation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS), and theRoyal Society of Biology (RSB).
| Discipline | Neuroscience |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Kate Baker |
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| History | Since 2017 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing in association with British Neuroscience Association |
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| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Brain Neurosci. Adv. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 2398-2128 (print) 2398-2128 (web) |
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The BNA publishes apeer-reviewedscientific journal,Brain and Neuroscience Advances with Kate Baker (University of Cambridge) aseditor-in-chief. It also publishes theBNA Bulletin membership magazine.
The headline event of the BNA is the biennial 'Festival of Neuroscience'. The festivals are unique in bringing together multiple people and organisations with a shared interested in neuroscience - societies, charities, companies, scientists, clinicians and members of the public too.