In the days before 24-hour news networks, television stations could interrupt regular programming for breaking news, such as a tornado or landfalling hurricane. Known as “late-breaking,” these special reports were highlighted by a flashing banner or alert crawl at the top of the screen, and often included a dramatic video clip to convey the urgency of the story. The term also applies to the latest additions to the paper’s editorial page, especially political stories or new developments in current events.
In 2025, late-breaking abstracts will be considered for a limited number of Oral Platform Presentations at Neuroscience 2025. These abstracts must report new, timely research that would be of significant importance to the clinical/scientific community. They cannot be a revision of an abstract submitted by the regular deadline or contain data that has already been presented at another scientific meeting or published in any online or PubMed indexed venue prior to the late-breaking abstract submission date.
If your abstract is accepted as a late-breaking abstract, it will be displayed in a special late-breaking abstracts section of the poster floor. These abstracts will not be co-located with posters in the main e-poster sessions or within Theme A–J. Additionally, late-breaking abstract presentations are not required to meet the stricter criteria for a poster (i.e., objective/hypothesis, methodological approach, significance/relevance, and evidence). All late-breaking abstracts must be scientific and align with one of the conference’s Themes. Each presenting author is permitted to submit only one late-breaking abstract, and the person who will present at the meeting must be the same as that listed on the abstract submission.
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