An NIH Symposium/ Brain Awareness Week
Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center/ Jack Masur Auditorium
9000 Rockville Pike, Building 10
Bethesda, Maryland 20892
March 17, 1998
Sponsored by NIMH, NEI, NHLBI, NIA, NIAAA, NICHD, NIDA, NIDCD, NIDR, NIHGR,
NINDS, and NINR
Agenda
8:15 - 8:30 a.m. |
Welcoming Remarks and Introduction |
Steven E. Hyman, M.D. Director National Institute of Mental Health |
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Chair: | Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D. Director National Institute on Drug Abuse |
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8:30 - 9:15 a.m. | Catecholamine Transporters: Role in the Physiological Actions of Dopamine and Maintenance of Homeostasis |
Marc G. Caron, Ph.D. Department of Cell Biology and Medicine Duke University Medical Center |
9:15 - 10:30 a.m. | Molecular Logic of Pheromone Signaling in Mammals |
Catherine Dulac, Ph.D. Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Harvard University |
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Break | |
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Chair: | Steven E. Hyman, M.D. Director National Institute of Mental Health |
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10:45 - 11:30 a.m. | Brain Extracellular Matrix in Development and Cancer |
Susan J. Hockfield, Ph.D. Section of Neurobiology Yale University School of Medicine |
11:30 - 12:15 p.m. | Memory Systems of the Mammalian Brain |
Larry R. Squire, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences University of California, San Diego |
12:15 - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch | |
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Chair: | Richard J. Hodes, M.D. Director National Institute on Aging |
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1:30 - 2:15 p.m. | Synaptic Plasticity in the Mammalian Brain |
Robert C. Malenka, M.D., Ph.D. Departments of Psychiatry and Physiology University of California, San Francisco |
2:15 - 3:00 p.m. | Stress, Neurodegeneration, and the Promise of Gene Therapy in the Nervous System |
Robert M. Sapolsky, Ph.D. Department of Biological Sciences Stanford University Medical Center |
3:00 - 3:15 p.m. | Break | |
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Chair: | Audrey Penn, M.D. Acting Director National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke |
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3:15 - 4:00 p.m. | Studies of brain plasticity: a foundation science for neurorehabilitation |
Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences Department of Otolaryngology and Physiology University of California, San Francisco |
4:00 - 4:45 p.m. | Psychological Studies of Visual Perception |
Ken Nakayama, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Harvard University |
4:45 - 5:00 p.m. | Summation and Thanks | Steven E. Hyman, M.D. |
For further information call:
Henry Khachaturian, Ph.D.
Office of Science Policy and Program Planning
National Institute of Mental Health
Parklawn Building, Room 17C-26
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone: 301-443-4335
FAX: 301-443-3225
E-Mail: hk11b@nih.gov