‘Brain Awareness Week’ is an international initiative to raise awareness of advances in brain research, treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases and their prevention. It was founded in the United States in 1995 and was later organised by the Society for Neuroscience and the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives. The initiative is annual and is traditionally held in the third week of March. In Italian-speaking Switzerland, the event is coordinated by a scientific committee and organised in collaboration with the Neurocentro della Svizzera italiana of the EOC, the Organisation sociopsichiatrica cantonale (OSC) and the USI ideatorio. Learn more