Fall 2000

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SSPD will sponsor an evening paper session at the Society for Neuroscience meeting that is to be held in New Orleans, November 4-9. The SSPD session is scheduled for Wednesday, November 8, from 5:30 to 9:00 p.m. and will consist of a short business meeting followed by oral presentations.
(PLEASE NOTE: Due to an unavoidable conflict, the night on which the session will be held is different from previous years.)

For SSPD members who are current on their dues (we thank you), there is no fee for attending the session. (Members who are not current on their dues can pay them at the session.) Non-members will be charged a nominal fee. Food and drink will be provided, and there will be a cash bar for extra drinks.

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is September 30, 2000. The time allotted for each presentation will depend on how many presentations are accepted; in any event, no less than 15 min will be allowed for each speaker. Please send abstracts to Jenny Wiley (electronic format is appreciated).

This year we will have two invited speakers: Werner J. Schmidt (Zoologisches Institut, Neuropharmakologie, Universität Tübingen Mohlstr., Tübingen, Germany) and Paul Vezina (Department of Psychiatry, Committee on Neurobiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL). Drs. Schmidt and Vezina will begin the scientific session with a discussion of drug sensitization. Abstracts of their presentations are presented on page 4 of the newsletter. Volunteer presentations will follow.

After many years absence, a number of behavioral pharmacologists attended the June meeting of the American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) to promote the recent formation of a Behavioral Pharmacology division. Along with our molecularly-minded colleagues, we braved a deluge of raindrops to arrive at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston and listen to some interesting and informative talks and to view posters. In support of the new section formation, SSPD sponsored a successful and well-attended feast and paper session. The science part of this session focused on methodological issues related to drug discrimination. The following papers were presented:

Ellen Walker

Low efficacy agonists as discriminative stimuli: some generalizations

Carol Paronis

Preparing for tolerance studies in midazolam-discriminating monkeys: when a lack of effect is a good thing

Jonathan Katz

Response rate criteria for inclusion of lever selection data - do they matter?

Nancy Ator

Drug stimulus control and low response rates: rule-governed behavior in the rat

Wouter Koek

Flipping coins - towards a formal definition of intermediate responding

Special thanks to the presenters and to all those who participated in the discussion of each paper.

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