PAST AND FORTHCOMING MEETINGS ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL PHARMACOLOGY (AMSP) Place/Date: Miami Lakes, Florida, January 10-12, 1986. Officers of AMSP President: Lowell M. Greenbaum Secretary: Theodore M. Brody Treasurer: Thomas C. Westfall Councillors: C. Paul Bianchi Norman Kirshiner C. Alan Robison Scientific Program Research Frontiers in Pharmacology President: Lowell M. Greenbaum Atria1 Peptin; Cardiac hormone regulating fluid, electrolyte and blood pressure homeostasis P.N. Needleman Peptide mediators and proteoiysis in the mechanisms of action of insulin J. Larner Molecular properties of voltage-sensitive sodium and calcium channels W.A. Cattarall Graduate training in Pharmacology for the 1990 Participants: J. Schenkman, N. Kirschner, Al Robison and W. Fleming Moderator: T.M. Brody Knowledge Objectives in Pharmacology Status: J. Fisher Examinations: W. Waddell Laboratories: G. Condouris The GPEP Report and the "New" Medical School Curriculum Presentors: H. Hardman and D. Gourley The NBME: Status Report L. Aronow Annual Survey T.M. Brody Pharmacology role in NIH Study SeCtiOnS Success rate of grant proposals from Pharmacology departments T. Narahashi - Animal Legislation L. Greenbaum Further Information: Secretary AMSP, Department of Pharmacology, Michigan State University, Life Science Building, East Lansing, Mi. 48824, U.S.A., Tel. (517) 353-7147.
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PAST AND FORTHCOMING MEETINGS
ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL PHARMACOLOGY (AMSP)
Place/Date: Miami Lakes, Florida, January 10-12, 1986.
Officers of AMSP President: Lowell M. Greenbaum Secretary: Theodore M. Brody Treasurer: Thomas C. Westfall Councillors: C. Paul Bianchi
Norman Kirshiner C. Alan Robison
Scientific Program
Research Frontiers in Pharmacology President: Lowell M. Greenbaum
Peptide mediators and proteoiysis in the mechanisms of action of insulin J. Larner
Molecular properties of voltage-sensitive sodium and calcium channels W.A. Cattarall
Graduate training in Pharmacology for the 1990 Participants: J. Schenkman, N. Kirschner, Al Robison and W. Fleming Moderator: T.M. Brody
Knowledge Objectives in Pharmacology Status: J. Fisher Examinations: W. Waddell Laboratories: G. Condouris
The GPEP Report and the "New" Medical School Curriculum Presentors: H. Hardman and D. Gourley
The NBME: Status Report L. Aronow
Annual Survey T.M. Brody
Pharmacology role in NIH Study SeCtiOnS Success rate of grant proposals from Pharmacology departments
T. Narahashi - Animal Legislation
L. Greenbaum
Further Information: Secretary AMSP, Department of Pharmacology, Michigan State University, Life Science Building, East Lansing, Mi. 48824, U.S.A., Tel. (517) 353-7147.
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FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE MEXICAN SOCIETY OF BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY AND SECOND SYMPOSIUM OF THE LATINAMERICAN FEDERATION 0~ BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY (FLAPB)
Place/Date: Puebla, Pue, Mexico, April 15-20, 1986.
Scientific Program: It included
- Six Plenary Lectures - Plenary symposia - Symposia by invitation - Symposia - Free communications
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followings were some of the symposia related to the neuropsychopharmacology: Advances in the biology of schizophrenia The reality of psychiatry in Latinamerica Advances in Psychopharmacology Recent advances in depression Diagnostic issues in psychiatry: DSM reliability Etology and psychiatry Diagnostic errors in psychiatry New perspectives in the management of alcoholism Biology of drug addiction Monism and dualism in psychiatry Obsessive-compulsive disorder Cerebral lateraly and psychiatry Medicine and psychiatry Neurochemistry Neurological aspects of mental disease Brain imaging in psychiatry E.E.G. and psychiatry Psychotherapy and pharmacology Stress Alzheimer disease Work and mental pathology Advances and the investigation in treatment of anxiety disorders
Symposia by Invitation included: World federation of the biological psychiatry
The Mexican Society of Biological Psychiatry has accomplished it's 17th year of the fructi- ferous existence in the fulfillement of it's goals: to promote basic biological investigation of neurosciences and biological treatments in Psychiatry, and to advocate for the cohesion of progressive Latinamerican Psychiatrists in order to establish interaction with modern currents in this branch of medicine.
Further Information: Sociedad Mexicana de Psiquiatria Biologica AC, Pilares No 605, Co1 de1 Valle, C.P. 03100, Mexico, DF.
NINTH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE CANADIAN COLLEGE OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY (CCNP)
Place/Date: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 20-23, 1986.
Officers of CCNP President: A.A. Boulton, Saskatoon Past-President: W.G. Dewhurst, Edmonton Vice-Presidents: P. Grof, Hamilton
P.D. Hrdina, Ottawa Secretary: G.B. Baker, Edmonton Treasurer: N. P. V. Nair, Montreal Councillors: M. Hirst, London
R. A. Remick, Vancouver H. A. Robertson, Halifax H. Szechtman, Hamilton A. Villeneuve, Quebec
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Local Organizing Committee: Dr H.C. kibiger Dr D.J. McClure Dr R.A. Remick
P. Seeman, Toronto, 1985 Heinz Lehmann Award - Plenary Lecture 1: Perinatal complications in aetiology of Schizophrenia
P. Murray, London, England - Plenary Lecture 2: The neurology of affect, emotions and depression
E.D. Ross, Dallas, U.S.A. The following nine symposia were held: Symposium 1 - Sleep: Biology, Pharmacology and Pathology
Sponsorship Squibb Canada Inc. Chairman: J. Fleming, Speakers: A. Hobson, Boston, U.S.A.,
V. Zarcone, Palo Alto, U.S.A., C.F. Reynolds, III, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.; A. Lewy, Portland, U.S.A.
Symposium 2 - Positron emission tomography and neuropsychiatric disorders
Sponsorship Medical Research Council of Canada Chairman: C. Clark Speakers: M.R. Hayden, Vancouver, Canada,
R. Cohen. Bethesda. U.S.A.. R. Hawkins, Los Angeles, U:S.A., W.R.F. Martin, Yancouver, Canada.
Symposium 3 - Panic States
Sponsorship Chairman: Speakers:
Upjohn Company of Canada D.J. McClure Y. Lapierre, Ottawa, Canada, M. Raichle. St-Louis. U.S.A.. P. Hauri, Dartmouth,~U.S.A.,~ J. Pecknold, Montreal, Canada, R. Swinson, Toronto, Canada.
Symposium 4 - Geriatric psychopharmacology
S$;;s;;s,hip McNeil.Pharmaceutical Canada Ltd
Soeakersi R. Ancill E.G. McGeer, Vancouver, Canada, D-G. Morgan, Calif., U.S.A., K.I. Shulman, Toronto, Canada, R. Ancill, Vancouver, Canada.
Symposium 5 - Electroconvulsive therapy and memory
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal function in health and disease riPst;;sLaboratories of Canada
T: Reisine, Philadelphia, U.S.A., M.F. Dallman, San Francisco, U.S.A., A.P. Zis, Vancouver, Canada, B.J. Carroll, Durham, U.S.A.
Poster Sessions: Two sessions were organized
Proceedings of the Meetings The Proceedings of the meeting will be published as a special issue in the Journal Progress in Neuro-psychopha~a~olo~ and Biological Psychiatry Yof 11 under the Chief Editorship of Dr D.J. McC?ure and collaboration of several Editors. -
Further Information: CCNP C/O Venue West Ltd, 801-750 Jervis St, Vancouver, B.C., V6E 2A9, Tel. (604) 681-5226.
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR CLINICAL NEUROIMAGING
Place/Date: Vienna, June 5-7, 1986.
Sponsorship: Federal Minister of Health and Environment Protection Federal Minister of Science and Research
Organizers: Osterreichische Gesellschaft fltr Neuroimaging in cooperation with the University Departments of Neurology in Wien, Graz, Innsbruck and the American Society of Neu~imaging.
Scientific Program: It will include - Interventional technique - Space-occuping Processes in the Spine -. New methods and fields of applications in neuroimaging - 10 main lectures - Posters - Film - Video
Deadline: Absolute deadline for submitting papers/posters is February 15, 1986.
Further information: Secretariat of the International Congress for Clinical Neuroimaging, c/o Wiener Medizinische Akademie, Alser, Strabe 4 A - 1090, Vienna, Austria. Tel. (0222f 427165. Telegramne: Medacad Wien.
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16TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE
Place/Date: Washington, D.C., U.S.A., November 9-14, 1986.
Preliminary Scientific Program Among the various topics to be covered at the Neuroscience Meeting, the following are related to the neuropharmacology. I. Symposia 1. Of mice and men 2. The neurobiology of epilepsy 3. The new pha~acology of anxiety: Looking beyond the benzodiazepines 4. Mechanisms of neuropeptide actions on behavior 5. Neuronal acetylcholine receptors 6. Neurobiology of sleep. Xmplications for sleep disorders
II. Satellite Symposia 1. IBRO Symposia: Perspectives in neuroscience
As an introduction to the symposium, Dr Dominick Purpura, President-.Elect of IBRO and Or David Ottoson, Secretary - General of IBRO will present an overall picture of the role IBRO must play in developing more cohesive interactions among the World's neuroscientists. Speakers: G.D. Fischbach, J.P. Chan~eux, R.R. Llinas and F.E. Bloom
2. Frontiers in Neuropharmacology
III. Workshops 1. Neurobiology of disease workshop: Parkinson's disease and the AIDS virus in the nervous
system 2. Ascorbate: a vitamin as a neuromodulator 3, Opioids in hippocampus
IV. Social Issues Round table The therapeutic and non-therapeutic uses of cognitive enhancers
V. Special lectures 1. Steroid hormones and brain: Linking "Nature and Nurture" 2. Catecholamines - early and recent studies 3. Inositol 11pids and neural function 4. Calcium channels in neurons and muscle cells 5. The alleviation of pain. Insights and applications from the laboratory
VI. Special Interest Events 1. Neurotoxicology 2. Psychoimmunology: Neuropeptides and their receptors 3. Clinical neuroscience: Hyperalgesia 4. Neuroendocrinology 5. Pain/Autonomic nervous system
YII. Neuroscience courses 1. Chemical and functional assays of receptor binding 2, Imaging function in the nervous system: Optical methods in cellular neurobiology 3. Parkinson's disease and the AIDS virus in the nervous system
VIII. Slide and Poster sessions Ei.ght slide and poster sessions have been planned
Further Information: Society for Neuroscience, Suite 130, 11 DuPont circle, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, U.S.A.
PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND THE AIDS VIRUS IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE 1986 NEUROBIOLOGY OF DISEASE WORKSHOP
Place/Date: Georgetown University Medical School Hospital, Washington, D.C., November 8-9, 86.
Faculty Parkinson Disease: M.R. Delong, J.W. Langston, J.S. Perlmutter, D.L. Price and I. Shoulson Aids: D.E. Griffin, R.T. Johnson, D.L. Price, R. Price and K. Tyler
Further Information: Society for Neuroscience, -202) 462-6688.
11 DuPont Circle, N.W., Suite 130, Washington,
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25TH ANNIVERSARY NEUROFHA~RCOLOGY: FRONTIERS IN NEUROP~A~COLaGY SATELLITE ~EET~NG-~6TH ANNUAL MEETING-SOCrETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE
Place/Date: Tarpon Springs, Florida, November 15-17, 1986.
Objective With the perspective of the last 25, past and future advances in the field of neuropharma-
cology will be discussed. This symposium will address important questions concerning the new options available. It is hoped that new, fruitful research strategies will be adopted to generate the development of the CNS drugs that society needs. Organizing conunittee
Chai~en: P. Bradley (U.K.) E. Costa (U.S.A.) F. Standaert (U.S.A.)
Preliminary Scientific Program Session on transmitters Chairmen: P. Bradley (U.K.) and A. Carfsson (Sweden) Speakers: G.K. Aghajanian (U.S.A.), K.E. Moore (U.S.A.), N.H. Neff (U.S.A.), A.R. Green
(U.K.), C.A. Marsden (U.K.) and E. Giacobini (U.S.A.) Informal Session Opening remarks: P. Bradley (U.K.) Speakers:
H.K.F. Blachcko (U.K.) A. Karczmar (U.S.A.) E.K. Killam (U.S.A.) K.F. Killam Jr. (U.S.A.) C. Radouco-Th~as (Canada) P. Waser (Switzerland)
Closing remarks: E. Costa (U.S.A.) Session on qene regulation men: F.E. Bloom (U.S.A.) and P. Mandel (France) Speakers: E.A. Bernard (U.K.), J.G. Sutcliffe (U.S.A.), X. Mocchetti
(U.S.A.) Session on behavior
Chairmen: E.F. Domino (U.S.A. and E. Giacobini (U.S.A.) Speakers: I. Stolerman (U.K.), S.E. File (U.K.), 3.A. Harvey (U.S./l
(U.K.)
(U.S.A.) and P, Seeburg
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Session on receptors Chairmen: F. Standaert (U.S.A.) and P. Waser (Switzerland) Speakers: G.N. Woodruff (U.K.), M.J. Kuhar (U.S.A.), H. Loh (U.S.A.), M.A. Simmonds (U.K.),
P. Jenner (U.S.A.), J. Barker (U.S.A.) and I.L. Martin (U.K.) Session on modulators
Chai~en: E. Costa (U.S.A.} and A. Karczmar (U.K.) Speakers: A.C. Cue110 (Canada), S.J. Enna (U.S.A.), B.M. Cox (.U.S.A.), J.W. Musacchio
(U.S.A.), B.S. Bunney (U.S.A.) and A. Guidotti (U.S.A.)_ Conqress Proceedings
The proceedings of the congress will be published by Pergamon Press, London, U.K. The proceedings will appear as a special issue of the journal ~Neu~pharmacology~ to be distri- buted in January 1987. This special issue will be sent to a17 registered participants.
Further Information: Fidia Research Foundation, 1775 K Street N.W., Suite 801, Washington, D.C. 20006 (U.S.A.). Attention K. Hughes. Tel. (202) 857-4277. Telex 4979490 FIDIAIJS,
25~~ ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE aF NEuRoPSYCHOPHARMAC~LOGY (AcNP)
Place/Date: Washington, D.C., U.S.A., December 8-12, 1986.
Further Info~ation: Or Oakley Ray, Secretarial Office of ACNP, Box 1823-Station B, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, U.S.A,
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l5TH CONGRESS OF THE COLLEGIUM INTERNATIONALE NEURO-PSYCHOPHA~ACOLOGICUM (CINP)
Place/Date: San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 14-17, 1986.
Officers Executive Committee President: O.J. Rafaelsen, Denmark Past President: P. Kielholz, Switzerland President-Elect: W.E. Bunney, Jr., U.S.A. Vice-Presidents: H. Heimann, F.R. Germany
J. R. Wittenborn, U.S.A. Secretary: J. A. Engel, Sweden Treasurer: T. A. Ban, U.S.A. Councillors: R. H. Belmaker, Israel; W. E. Haefely, Switzerland; H. Itoh, Japan; L. Maitre, Switzerland; B. Miller-Oelinghausen, F.R. Germany; G. Racagni, Italy; M. Sandler, U.K.; P. Simon, France U.S.A. Coordinating Cwmrittee Chairmen: W.E. Bunney, Jr., U.S.A.
S.G. Potkin, U.S.A. Members: E. Costa
O.S. Ray F. Sulser
Tentative Scientific Program The following symposia are being organized:
Molecular genetics and drug development Racial and cultural factors in psychopharmacology Neuroimaging interphase with ph&nacology: New clinical application Bioloaical rhythms: Relevance of animal research to humans remora: Peptjde, neurotransmitter and drug influences Ethical issues in animal experimentation and new drug approval Synaptic transmitter plasticity New directions in transmitter action and receptor regulation Restoration of CNS function: Plasticity, brain transplants and computers Sleep regulating factors Pharmacology of calcium channels Depression: A psychobiological and treatment update Light, melatonin and depression Suicide: Psychobiological evaluation of risk Tardive dyskinesia: New treatment approaches Neurobiological mechanisms of anxiety Search for new endogenous ligands: How many more? Pharmacological receptor regulation as a treatment strategy
Note: In addition, there will be other symposia, workshops, round tables, discussion groups and poster sessions.
Further Info~ation: Dr. Steven G. Potkins, University of California ., Irvine Medical 101 City Drive South, Rt. 88, Orange, California 92688, U.S.A., Tel, (714) 634-6893.
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Important Remark: The 25th ACNP Annual Meeting (.December 8-12, 1986, Washington, D.C.) is being held in association with the 15th CINP Annual Meeting (December 14-17, 1986, San Juan, Puerto Rico). Economical travel and registration arrangements Will be available for those attending both meetings.
