Meetings
ICCN History
1981 EEG Congress, Kyoto: Traditional sake barrel opening at the Congress banquet.
The International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN) has a long history dating back to 1947. Originally, two separate international congress series were organized, one focused on electroencephalography (EEG) and the other on electromyography (EMG).
The EEG congress series began in 1947 and was initially known as the International Congress, later becoming the International Congress of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology. The EMG congress series began in 1961 and was later known as the International Congress of Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology.
In 1999, the two congress series were combined into the International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN), bringing the different areas of clinical neurophysiology together under one international meeting. The numbering of the ICCN continued from the combined history of the two earlier congress series.
Today, ICCN is IFCN's premier international scientific and educational meeting, held every two years in collaboration with one of its Member Societies.
International Congress of Clinical Neurophysiology (ICCN)
2024 – Jakarta, Indonesia
2022 – Geneva, Switzerland
2018 – Washington, DC, United States
2014 – Berlin, Germany
2010 – Kobe, Japan
2006 – Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
2003 – San Francisco, California, United States
2001 – Buenos Aires, Argentina
International Congress of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology (EEG Congress Series)
1997 – Florence, Italy (14th Congress)
1993 – Vancouver, Canada
1990 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1985 – London, United Kingdom
1981 – Kyoto, Japan
1977 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
1973 – Marseille, France
1969 – San Diego, California, United States
1965 – Vienna, Austria
1961 – Rome, Italy
1957 – Brussels, Belgium
1953 – Boston, Massachusetts, United States
1949 – Paris, France
1947 – London, United Kingdom
International Congress of Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology (EMG Congress Series)
1999 – Prague, Czech Republic
1995 – Kyoto, Japan
1992 – Jerusalem, Israel
1987 – Sorrento, Italy
1983 – Munich, Germany
1979 – Stockholm, Sweden
1975 – Rochester, Minnesota, United States
1971 – Brussels, Belgium
1967 – Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
1963 – Copenhagen, Denmark
1961 – Pavia, Italy
Historical Photographs
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Historical Reference
Nuwer, M.R., and Lücking, C.H. Wave Length and Action Potentials: History of the IFCN. Supplements to Clinical Neurophysiology, Volume 61 (2010).