Late-breaking abstracts are accepted when novel research that could not have been anticipated before the regular submission deadline is presented at a meeting. This includes new aspects or focus of a study previously presented at another meeting, but not identical presentations of the same data. A case series can also be considered as a late-breaking abstract if it reports new and urgent findings.
A selected number of late-breaking abstracts will be chosen for oral presentation in a special session during the Congress, as described in the programme. Others will be displayed as paper posters or ePosters, as scheduled in the programme. Accepted abstracts can be published in the MSMilan2023 congress supplement and in the ePoster library.
Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by the end of April 2024. Presenters of abstracts that have been accepted must register and attend the Conference to present their work in person.
Authors must be SfN members at the time of submission. Each author may only appear as the presenting author of one late-breaking abstract. If a submitted abstract is accepted for oral presentation, the presenting author must be available to present the results of the study at SLEEP 2024. Accepted late-breaking abstracts will be citable as part of Neuroscience 2024, and included in the online meeting planner and mobile app after post-review is completed. In order to ensure that the scientific content of an abstract is assessed appropriately, it must be aligned with the conference theme.