Personnels Dr Kenichiro Inomata (formerly the associate pro­fessor at the Department of Anatomy, Shimane Medi­cal University) was appointed as the professor at the Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Toho University, Tokyo on June, 1984.

Schedule of Meetings Inside Japan

1984

October 5-6, 1984 18th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Epilepsy, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan. Information: Prof M Miyasaka, Dept of Psy­chiatry, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, 880 Kobayashi, Mibu-cho, Shimotsuga-gun, Tochigi 321-02, Japan.

October 11-13, 1984 26th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Inherited Metabolic Disease, Sapporo, Japan. Information: Prof T Nakao, Dept of Pediatrics, Sapporo Medical College, 16 Nishi 1 Minami, Chuou-ku, Sapporo 060, Japan.

October 19-20, 1984 31st Annual Meeting of Japa­nese Society of Child Health, Kyoto, Japan. Informa­tion: Prof T Kusunoki, Dept of Pediatrics, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-machi, Hirokoji, Kawaramachi-dori, Kamikyo-ku, Kyoto 602, Japan.

October 24-26,1984 43rd Annual Meeting of Japan Neurosurgical Society, Chiba, Japan. Information: Prof H Makino, Dept of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chiba 280, Japan.

October 27-28,1984 The 25th Congress of The Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Kyoto, Japan. Information: The Society of Child and Adoles­cent Psychiatry, Dept of Clinical Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, 53 Kawaramachi, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606, Japan.

November 2-4, 1984 14th Postgraduate Educational SeI11inar on Child Neurology, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan. Information: Secretariat, The Japanese Society of Child Neurology, Ko bayashi Bldg 2F, 10-1 Wakama tsu­cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162, Japan.

November 7-10,1984 6th International Symposium on Brain Edema (BEST '84), Tokyo, Japan. Informa­tion: Prof Y Inaba, Dept of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.

November 8-9,1984 37th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Neurovegetative Research, Tokyo, Japan.

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Dr Kazuyoshi Watanabe advanced his rank from an assistant professor to the professor and the head at the Department of Pediatrics, Nagoya University, School of Medicine, Nagoya, on August 1st, 1984.

Information: Prof Y Matsuo, Dept of Internal Medi­cine, Nihon University, School of Medicine, 30-1 Oyaguchikami-machi, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173, Japan.

November 8-10,1984 14th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Electroencephalography and Electro­myography, Kitakyushu, Japan. Information: Prof N Matsuoka, Dept of Neurosurgery, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1-1 Iseiga­oka, Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu 807, Japan.

November 8-10,1984 29th Japanese Society for Research Premature and Newborn Infants, Kobe, Japan. Information: Prof T Matsuo, Dept of Pediat­rics, Kobe University School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650, Japan.

November 10-16, 1984 Course for Physicians: Very early diagnosis and treatment of cerebral palsied chil­dren, Osaka, Japan. Information: Bobath Hospital (for the Physically Disabled), 1-6-5 Higashi-nakahama, Joto-ku, Osaka 536, Japan.

November 14-16, 1984 29th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Human Genetics, Toyama, Japan. Information: Dr Z Ogita, Inst of Oriental Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Faculty of Medicine, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-01, Japan.

November 15-17,1984 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Neurochemical Society, Tokyo, Japan. Information: Prof K Uemura, Dept of Physiology, Saitama Medical School, Hongo 38, Moro, Moroyama­cho, Iruma-gun, Saitama 350-48, Japan.

November 28-29,1984 5th Annual Meeting of J apa­nese Society of Clinical Pharmacology, Tokyo, Japan. Information: Dr T Saito, Dept of Internal Medicine, Cancer Institute Hospital, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, 1-37-1 Kami-ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170, Japan. November 30-December I, 1984 12th Japanese Soci­ety of Screening for Metabolic Disorders and Related Diseases, Tokushima, Japan. Information: Prof M Miyao, Dept of Pediatrics, 3-18-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima 770, Japan.

1985

July 18-20, 1985 27th Annual Meeting of the

Japanese Society of Child Neurology, Tokyo, Japan. Information: Prof M Kimura, Dept of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Boseidai, Ise­hara-shi, Kanagawa 259-11, Japan.

January 25-27, 1985 8th Meeting of Cranial Com­puted Tomography, Tokyo, Japan. Information: Prof Y Inaba, Dept of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.

Outside Japan

1984

October 5-7, 1984 Gesellschaft flir Neuropadiatrie, 10te Jahrestagung, Giessen, West Germany. Informa­tion: Prof Dr G Neuhauser, Abteilung Neuropadiatrie, Zentrum fiir Kinderheilkunde, Feulgestasse 12, 6300 Giessen, West Germany.

October 11-13, 1984 13th Annual Meeting of the Child Neurology Society, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Information: Child Neurology Society National Office, Box 486 Mayo, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

October 16-19, 1984 Congress of Paediatric Neuro­rehabilitation, Budapest, Hungary. Information: Motesz Congress Bureau, Budapest, PO Box 32, H-1361, Hungary.

October 24-28,1984 38th Annual Meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Develop­mental Medicine, Washington, DC, USA. Information: Mr Hinckley J A, Executive Director, AACPDM, 2405 Westwood Ave, PO Box 11083, Richmond, Virginia 23230, USA.

1985

March 24-28, 1985 7th World Congress of the Inter­national Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency, New Delhi, India. Information: Dr VR Pandurangi, Chief Organiser and Co-ordinator, 36-A, Osberton Place, Sheffield, SII 8XL, UK.

July first decade, 1985 25th Annual Meeting of the Sleep Research Society, Seattle, USA. Information: PN Prinz, PhD, Director, Sleep and Aging Research Program, Program Chairman, 1985 Sleep Research Society Meeting, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, RP-I0, Univ of Washington, Seattle, Washing­ton 98195, USA.

July 2-4, 1985 6th Prague International Symposium of Child Neurology, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Informa­tion: Czechoslovak Medical Society: JE Purkyne, (VIth Prague International Symposium of Child Neu­rology), PO Box 88, Tf Vitezmiho {mora 31, 120 26 Praha 2, Czechoslovakia.

August 11-16, 1985 XIV International Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering, VII Interna­tional Conference on Medical Physics, Helsinki, Finland. Information: XIV ICMBE/VII ICMP, Secre­tariat, PO Box 105, 00251 Helsinki, Finland.

August 25-30, 1985 11th International Congress of Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, London. Information: Dr SR Butler, Secretary, 11th ICECN, 70 Richmond Road, Twickenham, MIDDX, TWI 3BE, Great Britain.

September 1-6, 1985 8th World Congress of Neu­rology, Hamburg, West Germany. Information: XIIIth World Congress of Neurology, Congress Manager's Office, Letzter Hasenpfad 61, D-6000 Frankfurt 70, Federal Republic of Germany.

September 6-9, 1985 16th Epilepsy International Congress, Hamburg, West Germany. Information: Congress Secretary; Thomas Wiese, Spandauer Damm 46·1000 Berlin 19, West Germany.

1986

September 7-12,1986 The 10th International Congress of Neuropathology, Stockholm, Sweden. Information: Dr P Sourander, Secretariat, Xth Interna­tional Congress of Neuropathology, c/o Stockholm Convention Bureau Box 1617, S-111, 86 Stockholm, Sweden.

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