the patients with refractory epilepsy Kuroka wa T, Tomita S, Higuchi S (Fukuoka)

14. Free plasma levels of phenytoin and valproic acid with special reference to drug interaction Kazamatsuri H, Kanno 0, Watanabe H, Hattori M (Tokyo)

15. Clinical and electroencephalographical studies on "Benign epilepsy of children with centro-tempo­ral EEG-foci (BECCTF)" with special reference to the comparative study of key problem about the treatment of benign and refractory epilepsies Nishiura N, Oiwa (Osaka)

16. Therapy of temporal lobe epilepsy I: On phar­rna co-resistances Ka wai I, Sengoku A , Kanazawa 0 (Kyoto)

17. An attempt to improve the antiepileptic therapy in therapy-resistan t epilepsy - Determination of patients' noncompliance Sato T, Kaneko S, Fukushima Y, Kondo T (Hiro­saki)

18. A state of hallucination and delusion following epileptic seizure Komai S, Onuma T, Sekine Y, Akashi T, Miya­zaki C (Tokyo)

19. Functional and organic disturbances in refractory epilepsies with special reference to the equilibri­um function Yamashita I, Yamauchi T, Kohsaka M, Chiba T, Sumi T, Mori N, Takasaka Y (Sapporo)

20. Quantitative automatic analysis of pursuit eye movement disorder in intractable epileptic pa­tients Okuma T, Matsue Y, Matsuoka H, Ueno T, Aneha S, Tomiyama S, Saito H (Sendai)

21. Local cerebral glucose metabolism by positron emission tomography in cases with intractable seizures Tada K, Iinuma K, Yanai K, Fueki N, Matsu­yama T, Hatazawa J, Ido T (Sendai)

22 . Biological change underlying intractability of

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epilepsy and prophylaxis Sato M, Nakatsu T, Morimoto K, Ogawa T, Morita K, Kajita S, Morowake T, Nakashima T, Takenami K (Okayama) Abnormal neural activities of the hippocampus of mutant epileptic animals Suzuki J, Saito M, Nakamoto Y, Nakayama S (Tokyo) Experimental studies on the inhibitory effect of an tiepileptic drugs to the cortical and subcor tical seizure discharges - Antiepileptic effect of pheny­toin and valproa te sodium changing with serum concentration level Yamaguchi N, Jibiki I, Kubota T, Hirose S (Kana­zawa) Anticonvulsant effects of GAB A-containing lipo­somes on kindled amygdaloid convulsions in the rat Kumashiro H, Mori N, Yokoyama N, Sato T (Fukushima) Possible correla tion between the action mecha­nism of an tiepileptic drugs and polyphospho­inositides of the rat brain Miyamoto K, Imazawa M, Oizumi N (Tokyo) A role of radical reaction on the neuronal mem­brane in the seizure mechanism Mori A , Hiramatsu M (Okayama) Changes of muscarinic receptor binding affinity multiplicity during the development and at the convulsive seizure of El mice Mori K, Fujita S, Uematsu N, Kawaguchi K, Chikami T, Yamagami S, Kawakita Y (Osaka) Mechanism of phenytoin action in relation to the intracellular calcium shift during bursting activity Sugaya E (Y okosuka)

Reported by Dr Toyoji Wada, the group leader, Director General,

National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka, Japan

Pediatric Neurology Newly Published m 1985 Four new special journals in pediatric neurology or related field were started to be published in 1985, reflecting the rapid development in this field. An outline of these publications is as follows.

1) Pediatric Neurology (Bimonthly) Chief editor: KF Swaiman, MD, Division of Pediatric

Neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Publisher: Professional Publications Inc, Wisconsin, USA.

Address for manuscript submission: KF Swaiman, MD, Editor, Pediatric Neurology, Box 380 Mayo Build­ing, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, Minne­sota , USA.

Subscription price: US$44.00 plus US$6.00 (airmail).

2) Journal of Child Neurology (Quarterly) Chief editor: Royer A Brumback, MD, University of

Rochester, Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA.

Publisher : PSG Publishing Co Inc, Littleton, Mass, USA.

Address for manuscript submission: Editor, Royer A Brumback, MD, Box 626, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, 14642, USA.

Subscription price: US$60.00. Note: Publication will commence in October , 1985.

Subscription price for the first year is US$45.00, provided the order is received by the end of September, 1985.

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3) Pediatric Neuroscience (Bimonthly) Chief editor : EB Hendrick, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Publisher: S Karger AG, Basel, Switzerland. Address for manuscript submission: Dr Donald H

Reigel, Chief of Neurosurgery , The Western Pen­nsylvania Hospital , 4815 Library Avenue, Pitts­burgh, PA 15224, USA.

SUbscription price: Swiss Fr181.50, DM232.10, US $87.45.

Note: This journal superseded the conventional jour­nal "Child's Brain," so that the 1985 issues are considered to comprise volume 12.

4) Rivista di Neuroscienze Pediatriche- Journal

Personnel Dr Masakazu Fukushima (formerly a director of the General Day-Care Center in Rehabilitation Center in Chiba City) moved to the director of the Rehabilita­tion Center in Chiba City, Chiba, on June 1, 1985.

Dr Michiko Hara was appointed as the associate pro­fessor, Department of Pediatrics, Tokyo Women's Medical College, Tokyo, on May 1, 1985.

Dr Tsukasa lriki (formerly a vice-director of the Kurume National Hospital) moved to the chief of the medical department, Hisayama-Ryoikuen Hospital for the Multi-handicapped, Fukuoka, on May 1, 1985 .

Dr Ryoji Minami was appointed as the director of the National Sanatorium Yakumo Hospital, Yakumo, Hokkaido, on April 1, 1985.

Dr Yoshitaka Nakata (formerly a professor, Depart­ment of Neurological Surgery , Institute of Clinical Medicine, Tsukuba University) moved to the director ,

Schedule of Meetings Inside Japan

1985 October 4-5 , 1985 19th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Epilepsy, Ohtsu, Japan . Informa­tion: Prof M Shimada, Dept of Pediatrics, Shiga Uni­versity of Medical Science, Tsukiwa-machi, Seta, Ohtsu 520-21 , Japan.

October 18-20, 1985 15th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Electroencephalography and Electromyo­graphy, Fukushima, Japan. Information: Prof H Kumashiro, Dept of Neuro-Psychiatry, 5-75 Sugitsuma­cho, Fukushima 960, Japan.

October 19-21, 1985 Pan-Pacific Congress of the Screening of Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Kanazawa, Japan. Information: Dr S Yoshida, Dept of Pediatrics, Kanazawa Medical University, 1-1 Daigaku, Uchinada­cho, Kawakita-gun, Ishikawa 920-02, Japan.

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of Pediatric Neurosciences (Official journal of the Italian Association for the Child with Hydrocephalus or Spina Bifida) (Quarterly)

Chief editor: Concezio Di Rocco, Roma, Italy . Publisher: Ricerca Scientifica Editrice, S.r.l., Roma,

Italy. Address for manuscript submission: Prof C Di Rocco,

Universita Cattolica, Policlinico Gemelli, Largo Gemelli 8, 00168 Roma, Italy .

Subscription price: US$30.00 plus US $5.00 (surface) Note: The entire journal is written both in Italian and

English.

Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, on January 1, 1985.

Dr Akira Onuma (formerly the head of the Depart­m~nt of Pediatrics, National Nishitaga Hospital, Sen­dal) was appointed as the head of the Department of Pediatrics, Miyagi Prefectural Rehabilitation Center for Cr~ppled Children (Seishi Takutoh-En), Miyagi, on Apnl, 1985.

Dr Masakazu Seino was appointed as the director­general of the National Epilepsy Center, Shizuoka Higashi Hospi tal, Shizuoka, on April 1, 1985.

Dr David A Stumpf (formerly director of pediatric neurology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver) was appointed to the tenured position of Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Medical School and chief of the Division of Neurol­ogy at the Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

October 23-25,1985 44th Annual Meeting of Japan Neurosurgical Society , Nagasaki, Japan. Information: Prof K Mori, Dept of Neurosurgery , Nagasaki Universi­ty, School of Medicine, 12-4 Sakamoto-cho, Nagasaki 852, Japan.

November 2-4,1985 15 th Postgraduate Educational Seminar on Child Neurology, Kobe , Japan. Informa­tion: Secretariat, The Japanese Society of Child Neu­rology, Kobayashi Bldg 2F, 10-1 Wakamatsu-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162, Japan.

November 5-7,1985 28th Annual Meeting of Japa­nese Society of Neurochemistry, Komamoto, Japan. Information: Prof E Miyamoto, Dept of Pharmacolo­gy, Kumamoto University, School of Medicine, 2-2-1 Honjo, Kumamoto 860, Japan.

November 7-9, 1985 30th Annual Meeting of Japa­nese Society of Human Genetics, Nagoya, Japan. Information : Prof Y Wada, Dept of Pediatrics, Medical