Spring 1999

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Highlights of Fifth International Meeting

Co-sponsored by SSPD and EBPS, a meeting entitled "Drug discrimination in behavioural neuroscience: Applications in drug abuse and drug discovery research," was held August 30 - September 1, 1998 at the Janssen research facilities in Beerse, Belgium. Over 70 participants attended two full days of talks and posters. While all sessions focused on drug discrimination, a variety of topics were covered, including the use of drug discrimination in drug discovery and drug abuse research, gender and species differences in the discriminative stimulus effects of drugs, and effects of compound stimuli and partial agonists as discriminative stimuli. The concluding session outlined challenges for drug discrimination research in the new millennium. Following the sessions, scientists adjourned to a castle to participate in gustatory discrimination experiments with Belgian cuisine. Thank you to Theo Meert of Janssen and the other members of the organizing committee for their hard work in planning and hosting this meeting. Abstracts have been published in Behavioural Pharmacology (1998; vol. 9, suppl. 1). In addition, a special issue of Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior will focus on drug discrimination research and will include papers presented at the meeting. It is scheduled for publication this spring.

Welcome to our new members who were accepted to SSPD by the Executive Committee at the Beerse meeting in Fall 1998:

Karen G. Anderson (University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson)
Andrew C. Barrett (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Liesbeth A. Bruins Slot (University of Bordeaux)

Fall 1999

Spring 1999