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CALENDAR The following list comprises upcoming events which may be of special interest to readers of Neurobiology of Aging. While certain events are devoted exclusively to aging, others are more general but have traditionally sponsored special sessions particularly relevant to the aging nervous system. Any individual or organization wishing to have an event placed on this list should write directly to Reginald L. Dean, Assistant to the Editor, and provide all relevant details.

May I, 1987

International Symposium on Research and the Aging Popula- tion, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD. Contact: Marcia Aaron- son, Conference Coordinator, International Studies Branch, Fogarty International Center, Building 38A, Room B2N-13, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892.

May 1--8, 1987

Tissue Culture in Neurobiology, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Course held at University of Saskatchewan. Contact: S. Fedoroff, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0 Canada, telephone (306) 966-4075.

May 4-5, 1987

Geriatric Drug Update---1987, Masur Auditorium, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. Topics include: Current issues in geriatric drugs; Drug utilization and adverse effects in the elderly; Research and drug technology in geriatric drugs; and Health behavior, health promotion and future directions. Contact: Geriatric Drug Update, Building 31, Room 5C-05, NIA, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.

May 7, 1987

Conference on 2nd Messengers---Signaling Future Areas for Drug Research, London, UK. Contact: Conference Sec- retariat, Society of Chemical Industry, 14/15 Belgrave Square, London SWlX 8PS, UK.

May 7-8. 1987

Constitutional Meeting of the European College of Neuro- psychopharmacology (ECNP), Brussels, Belgium. The goals of the ECNP are to stimulate high-quality experimental and clinical research in neuropsychopharmacology with a special emphasis on coordinating and promoting the scientific ac- tivities and standards between different countries in Europe. The topics of the meeting will include basic and clinical as- pects of the pharmacological treatment of psychoses, affec- tive illnesses and sleep disorders. Contact: Dr. P. Bech, De- partment of Psychiatry, Frederiksborg General Hospital, DK-3400 Hiilerod, Denmark.

May 7-9, 1987

World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Demen-

tias: International Symposium on Aizheimer's Disease, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contact: Prof. Dr. S. L. Vis- ser, Dept. of Clinical Neurophysiology, Free University Academic Hospital, De Boelelaan 117, P.O, Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands, telephone (020) 548-6111.

May 10-16. 1987

1st Meeting of the International Neurotoxicology Association, Lunteren, The Netherlands. Contact: Dr. J. Hooisma, Medi- cal Biological Laboratory, TNO, Lange Kleiweg 137, P.O. Box 45, 2280 AA, Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

May 11-15, 1987

The First International Symposium on Post-Translational Modifications of Proteins and Aging, Naples, Italy. Under the auspices of the University of Naples and the Italian Society of Biochemistry. Contact: ALM s.r.l., Via Lattuada 26, 20135 Milano, Italy.

May 14-17, 1987

Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society and 8th Annual Meeting of the American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Or- leans, LA. Contact: American Geriatrics Society, 770 Lexington Avenue, Suite 400, New York, NY 10021.

May 20-23, 1987

The First Northern Lights Neuroscience Symposium: Myelin and Demyelination, Bergen, Norway. Review lectures em- phasizing clinically important aspects, current devel- opments, and prospects will be held. Contact: NLNS Sec- retariat, PB 113, N-5014 Bergen, Norway.

May 21-25, 1987

Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Neural Development and Regeneration, Miami, FL. Contact: B. Haber, Marine Biomedical Institute, University of Texas Medical Branch, 200 University Boulevard, Galveston, TX 77550.

May 24-29, 1987

Fifth Capo Boi Conference on Neuroscience, Cagliari, Italy. Topics include: Calcium channels and their modulation by neurotransmitters and drugs; voltage-dependent ion chan- nels; neuronal plasticity and trophic factors; receptor coup-

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lers and signal transduction; and emerging research strat- egies in aging of the brain, neuroimmunomodulation, and transgenic animals in neuroscience. Contact: G. Biggio, In- stitute of Biology, University of Cagliari, Via Palbanda, 12- 09123 Cagliari, Italy, telephone 070-669560.

May 27-31, 1987

Tissue Culture Association Annual Meeting on Molecular Ge- netics of Tissue Specific Gene Expression, Washington, DC. Contact: TCA, 19110 Montgomery Village Avenue, Suite 3000, Gaithersburg, MD 20879.

May 31-June 6, 1987

Joint Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN) and American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN), Macuto-Sheraton Hotel, LaGuaira, Venezuela. Contact: Chairman of the Joint Programme Committee, B. Ham- precht, Physioiogisch-Chemisches Institut der Universitat, Hoppe-Seyler Str. 1, D-7400 Tubingen, FRG, telephone (070) 7129 2452.

June 1-3, 1987

Therapeutic Medicine in the 1990s, The Colonnade Hotel, Boston, MA. Topics include: an overview on advances in therapeutic medicine; the marketplace for ethical phar- maceuticals; innovations in neurological/CNS and psycho- tropic drug therapy; drug delivery systems; cancer, im- munotherapy and antivirals; and cardiovascular, anti- infective and anti-inflammatory drugs. Contact: Frost & Sullivan Inc, Department RE-12, 106 Fulton St., NYC, NY 10038, telephone (212) 233-1080.

June 7-9,1987

Phospholipids in the Nervous Systems: Biochemical and Molecular Pathology, Puerto La Cruz. Contact: N. Bazan, Louisiana State University Eye Center, 136 South Roman Street, New Orleans, LA 70112.

June 8-9, 1987

Nervous System Aspects of Nervous-Immune Interaction, Granada. Contact: A. J. Dunn, J. H. Miller Health Center, Box J-244, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610.

June 9-12, 1987

New Trends in Ganglioside Research: Neurnchemical and Neurogenerative Aspects, Puerto La Cruz. Contact: R. N. Ledeen, Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave., Bronx, NY 10461.

June 11-13, 1987

Topographic Brain Mapping and Evoked ~ ! Testing, Marriott's Lincolnshire Resort, Lincolnshire, IL. Current applications of topographic brain mapping and evoked po- tential testing will be presented by faculty members experi- enced with these clinical applications. Actual patient testing will be conducted during the seminar providing attendees with demonstrations of data acquisition and analysis. Con- tact: Faith Curtis, Communications Manager, Bio-logic Sys- tems Corporation, One Biologic Plaza, Mundelein, IL 60060, telephone (312) 949-5200.

.lune 12-13, 1987

Conference on Neurological Applications of Implanted Drug Pumps, Sheraton Center, New York City. Sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences. The conference will bring together experts working on basic neurochemistry, neuro- chemical pathology, diffusion and transport of chemicals in the brain and drug pump technology. Contact: Conference Department, The New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10021, telephone (212) 838-0230.

June 13-16, 1987

Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, University of Wisconsin Regional Primate Center, Madison, WI. Contact: Dr. Sally P. Mendoza, Cali- fornia Primate Research Center, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, telephone (916) 752-1988.

June 14-19, 1987

The 6th International Catecholamine Symposium, Jerusalem, Israel. Contact: Professor R. Haim Belmaker, Chairman, P.O. Box 983, Jerusalem 91009, Israel.

June 15-20, 1987

ETP/ENA Practical Course on Molecular Neuroanatomy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contact: Dr. F. W. van Leeuwen, Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Meibergdreef 33, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

June 20-25, 1987

XIII International Symposium on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Montreal, Canada. Contact: SORE-LCOMM (1985) Inc., Conference Secretariat, 1425 Dorechester Boulevard West, Montreal, Quebec H3G IT2, Canada, tele' phone (514) 875-6174.

June 24-27, 1987

XXII Canadian Congress of Neurological Sciences, Van- couver, Canada. Contact: Dr. Andrew Eisen, Vancouver General Hospital, 855 West 12 Avenue, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada.

June 28-July 3, 1987

XVIII International Society of Psychoendncrinology, Chapel Hill and Durham, NC. Contact: Charles B. Nemeroff, M,D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, Box 3859, Duke Univer, sity Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.

June 30-July 3, 1987

Second International Symposium in Transplantation into the Mammalian CNS, University of Rochester, Rochesteri NY. Sponsored by Schmitt Neurological Sciences Symposia series. The program will be devoted to critically analyzing recent advances in neural t ransp~tat ion in both the basic and clinical sciences. Contact: S C ~ Symposium, De- partment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Box 603, 601 Elmwood Ave., University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, telephone (716) 275,2591.

July 15-17, 1987

Second International Congress of Biomedical Gerontology,

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Hamburg, FRG. Contact: Dr. E. Steinhagen-Theissen, Uni- versity Hospital Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, D-2000 Ham- burg, FRG.

July 22-24. 1987

A Joint Meeting of the Brain Research Associa- tion/Alzheimer's Disease Society on the Pathology, Neuro- chemistry, and Molecular Biology of Alzheimer's Disease, Southampton, England. Contact: John Hardy, Department of Biochemistry, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Lon- don W2 1PG, U.K., or Peter Roberts, Department of Phar- macology, University of Southampton, Southampton S09 3TU, U.K.

August 10-14, 1987

Selected Topics in Hypothalamic Research, Budapest, Hun- gary. Satellite Symposium of the Second World Congress of Neurosciences. Sessions include recent progress in mor- phology of the hypothalamic neurons and their connections, endocrine functions of the hypothalamus, the hypothalamus and the autonomic nervous system, and homeostasis. Con- tact: M. Kollai, Semmelweis Medical University, II Depart- ment of Physiology, Ulloi ut 78/a, Budapest, 1082, Hungary.

August 11-14, 1987

Structured-Functional Properties of the Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System, an ESN-IBRO Satellite Symposium, Leipzig, GDR, Contact: ESN-IBRO Symposium Neurowis- senschaftliches Zentrum, Karl-Marx-Universitat, DDR-7039 Leipzig, Karl-Marx-Stadter Strasse 50, German Democratic Republic.

August 13-15, 1987

Age-Dependent Nenrorehabilitation, Budapest, Hungary. Satellite Symposium of IMBRO Second World Congress. Contact: Dr. Ferenc Katona, Paediatric Institute, Budapest, Hungary.

August 14-15, 1987.

Synaptic Plasticity in The Hippocampus, Pecs, Hungary. Satellite Symposium of IBRO Second World Congress. Con- tact: Dr. H. L. Haas, Neruochirurgische Universitatsklinik, Ramistrasse 100, CH-8091, Zurich, Switzerland.

August 15, 1987

New Drug Strategies in the Therapy of Senile Dementias of Different Origin, Budapest, Hungary. Satellite Symposium of IBRO Second World Congress. Contact: Dr. Bela Kiss, Biochemical Department, Gedeon Richter Rt., POB 27, H-1475 Budapest 10, Hungary.

August 16-21. 1987

The Second International Brain Research Organization World Congress of Neuroscience, Budapest, Hungary. The Congress will emphasize fundamental mechanisms of neuroscience and their linkage to clinical problems. The scientific program will consist of plenary lectures, symposia, workshops and poster demonstrations. Themes of the Congress will range from molecular neurobiology to behavioral sciences and wili include topic areas relevant to clinical neurological and psy- chiatric problems. Congress registration forms will be dis-

tributed by mid-1986. Contact: Congress Secretariat, 2nd IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience, Institute of Exper- imental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1450 Budapest, POB 67, Hungary.

August 19-22, 1987

The Nansen Symposium on New Concepts in Neurosciences, Bergen, Norway. The following topics will be discussed: chemical neurotransmission by multiple signals; plasticity in neuronal systems; the brain and the immune system; future trends in neuroscience; brain mechanisms, rhythms, and ad- aptation. Contact: Dr. K. B. Helle, Department of Physiol- ogy, Arstadveien 19, N-5000 Bergen, Norway.

August 22-23, 1987

Functional Aspects of Neuronal Grafting in the Mammalian CNS. Pecs, Hungary. Satellite Symposium of IBRO Second World Congress. Contact: Dr. G. Buzsaki, Department of Neuroscience, M-024, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093.

August 22-24, 1987

Cerebral Hypoxia and Stroke: Reversible and Irreversible Ef- fects and Their Prevention, Budapest, Hungary. Satellite Symposium of IBRO Second World Congress. Contact: Dr. George Somjen, Department of Physiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, telephone (919) 684- 2262.

August 22-24, 1987

Lesion-Induced Neural Plasticity, Bremen, West Germany. Satellite Symposium of IBRO Second World Congress. Con- tact: Dr. H. Flohr, Department of Neurobiology, University of Bremen, NW-2, 2800 Bremen 33, W. Germany.

August 22-25. 1987

Functional Brain Imaging, Graz, Austria. Satellite Sym- posium of IBRO Second World Congress. Contact: Dr. Gert Pfurtscheller, Technical University, lnffeldgasse 18, A-8010 Grax, Austria.

August 23-28. 1987

Tenth International Congress of Pharmacology, Sydney, Aus- tralia. Contact: The Secretariat, 10th IUPHAR, GPO Box 3609, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia.

August 28-3I. 1987

Approaching Geropsychiatry in the 21st Century: The Third International Congress on Psychogeriatric Medicine, spon- sored by the International Psychogeriatric Association. The Palmer House, Chicago, IL. Contact: Sanford I. Finkel, M.D., Conference Chairman, 3127 Greenleaf Avenue, Wil- mette, IL 60091.

August 31-September 2, 1987

Dopamine '87: Dopamine Systems and Their Regulation, a satellite symposium of the 1987 IUPHAR congress will be held in the Hunter Valley, Australia. Contact: ACTS, GPO Box 1929, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia or Dr. P. M. Beart, Department of Medicine, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia.

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August 26-28, 1987

Neurophysiologicai and Neurological Basis for the Restoration of the Impaired Functions of the Nervous SystemmRecent Achievements in Restorative Neurology, Belgrade, Yugo- slavia. Satellite Symposium of IBRO Second World Con- gress. Contact: Dr. Ljubisa M. Rakic, Clinical Centre of the School of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Pasterova 2, 11000 Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

August 29-31, 1987

Third International Symposium on Subtypes of Muscarinic Receptors, Sydney, Australia. Satellite meeting of the Tenth International Congress of Pharmacology. Contact: Ruth R. Levine, Ph.D., Boston University, School of Medicine, 80 E. Concord Street, Boston, MA 02118.

August 31-September 4, 1987

International Workshop on Structural and Functional Aspects of Cholinergie Synapse, Neve-Llan Guest House, near Jerusalem, Israel. Contact: Professor I. Silman, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, 76100, Israel, telephone 972-8-483649.

September 8-11, 1987

The Second International Congress of Neuroinununology, Adams' Mark Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. Sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences. Contact: Conference De- partment, The New York Academy of Sciences, 2 East 63rd Street, New York, NY 10021, telephone (212) 838-0230.

September 15-19, 1987

Congress of the European Section of the International Asso- ciation of Gerontology, Brighton, England. The theme is "Ageing Well." It is being organized by the British Society for Gerontology, the British Geriatrics Society and the British Society for Research on Ageing. Symposia topics include: Medicines and Older People; Mental Health in Old Age; Diseases With Old Age; and Demographic Predictions and Ageing. Contact: Ageing Well Conference Services Ltd., 3 Bute Street, London SW7 3EY, England.

September 25, 1987

Brain Acetyicholine: From Preclinieai to Clinical Investiga- tions, Taormina, Italy. International symposium on basic sciences (acetylcholine neurons: pre- and postsynaptic as- pects; plasticity of brain cholinergic system; central cholinergic mechanisms and arterial blood pressure regula- tion; and animal models as tools for studying cholinergic functions) and clinical correlates (sleep, aging brain and de- mentias, memory, and psychiatric disease). Oral poster ses-

sions. Contact: A. P. Caputi, Institute of Pharmacology, University of Messina, Piazza XX Settembre, 4, 981000 Messina, Italy, telephone (090) 712533.

October 14-17, 1987

Third Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and.Mem- ory, University of California, Irvine, CA. Topics include: Forms of memory; Regulation of cortical function in mem- ory; and Representatives: Beyond the single cell. Contact: 1987 Conference Information, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717, telephone (714) 856-5198 or 5401.

October 18, 1987

Thirteenth International S y ~ u m of the Fulton Society on Memory, Hilton Plaza Hotel, San Francisco, CA. To be held in conjunction with the 112th Annual Meeting of the Ameri- can Neurological Association. Contact: Victor Soriano, Calle Buenas Aires, 363, Montevideo, Uraguay, South America.

November 4-6, 1987

Symposium on Drug Treatment in the Elderly, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact: Swedish A c ~ m y of ~ a c e u t i c a l Sci' ences, POB 1136, S-111 81 Stockholm, Sweden.

November 16-21, 1987

Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA. Contact: Society for Neuroscience, 11 Dupont Circle NW, 130, Washington, DC 20037.

November 25-28, 1987

Parkinsonism and Aging, Milan, Italy. Contact: Dr. Donatella Crippa, Department of Neurology, S. Raffaele Hospital, Via Olgettina 60, 10132 Milano, Italy.

January 4--8, 1988

The Czechoslovakia International Psychopharmacological Meeting, Jesenik Spa, Graenberg, Czechoslovakia. The meeting will be held simultaneously with the 30th annual meeting of the Czechoslovak Psychopharmacological Soci- ety. Subjects will include: Psychotropic drugs in medicine and Current trends in the interdisciplinary field of psycho- pharmacology. Contact: Dr. O. Vinar, Joint Laboratory Czechoslovak Academic Science and State Drug Control Institute, Srobarova 48, 100 41 Prague 10 Czechoslovakia.