Biochemistry and pharmacology of the basal ganglia

Int.

J. Neuropharmarol.,

1965, 4, 393-394

BIOCHEMISTRY

PergamonPress.

Printed inGt.Britain.

AND PHARMACOLOGY BASAL GANGLIA

OF THE

The second annual symposium sponsored by the Parkinson’s Disease Information and Research Center, the National Institutes of Health and the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation will be held on the 29th and 30th of November, 1965 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. A tentative program has been organized as follows : 1st Session:

THE BIOCHEMICAL FUNCTION

AND MORPHOLOGICAL

BASIS OF CHOLINERGTC

D. NACHMANSOHN(Chairman) : The Biochemical Busis of Cholinergic Drug Effects F. SJ~R~TRAND:The Structures of the Cell&r Membranes and Cell Membrane Contacts in the Nervous System W. RKER: The Motor Nerve Terminal as a Pharmacologic Substrate M. BRZIN, V. TENNYSON, P. DUFFY: Combined Cytochemical-Electron I.ocalization of the Cholinesterases in the Nervous System

Microscopic

2nd Session: THE BIOCHEMICAL

BASIS OF CENTRAL ADRENERGIC

S. UDENFRIEND (Chairman): Catecholamines in Brain

FUNCTION

General Remarks on the Biosynthesis and Metabolism of

A. CARELYON:Morphologic and Dynamic Aspects of Dopamine in the Central Nervous System 0. HORNYKIEWICZ: Metabolism of Brain Dopamine in Human Parkinsonism: Neurochemical and Clinical Aspects T. SOURKES:Amines of the Striatum: Relation to Experimental Tremor in the Monkey

3rd Session: MICROCHEMICAL

STUDIES OF BASAL GANGLIA

METABOLISM

B. BRODE (Chairman) H. HVDEN: Production of RNA in Neurones and Glia in Parkinson’s Disease indicating Genie Stimulation R. PAVLIN: The Activities of the Cholinesterases in the Reticular Formation Neurones investigated by Micromanometric Techniques

4th Session:

THE PHARMACOLOGY

OF ADRENERGIC

FUNCTION

B. BRODIE(Chairman) E. COSTAand N. H. NEFF: Isotopic and Non-Isotopic cholamine

Measurements

of the Rate of Cate-

Biosynthesis

A. SJOERDSMA : Chemical Manipulation

of Catecholamine

Enzymes

5th Session: Round table conference

PROMISING

APPROACHES

TO NEUROLOGY

FROM BASIC SCIENCES

S. KETY (Chairman) Participants:

B. BRODIE, H. HYDEN, E. KABAT, D. NACHMANSOHN,W. J. NAUTA, D. PURPURA, F. SJ~RSTRAND,S. UDENFRIEND,A. WOLF

The meeting is open to all those interested in the neurological sciences. Information on the program and advanced registration cards (at no cost) may be obtained from: MELVIND. YAHR, M.D.

(program co-director) 7 10 West 168th Street, New York, New York 10032