News Release

The Science Of Brain Disease

Meeting Announcement

NIH/National Institute of Mental Health

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
  • Session I
    		•
    Chair: Alan I. Leshner, Ph.D.
    Director
    National Institute on Drug Abuse
    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
  • Session II
    		•
    Chair: Steven E. Hyman, M.D.
    Director
    National Institute of Mental Health
    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
  • Session III
    		•
    Chair: Richard J. Hodes, M.D.
    Director
    National Institute on Aging
    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
  • Session IV
    		•
    Chair: Audrey Penn, M.D.
    Acting Director
    National Institute of Neurological
    Disorders and Stroke
    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

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