SSPD Newsletter - Summer 2004

SSPD gratefully acknowledges AstraZeneca (Michael Swedberg, Ph.D.), Memory Pharmaceuticals (James Barrett, Ph.D.), Pierre-Fabre (Francis Colpaert, Ph.D.), and Porsolt and Partners Pharmacology (Roger Porsolt, Ph.D.) for their generous financial support. These funds are critically needed to defray the costs of our meetings.

Call for Abstracts for 2004 SSPD Meeting

The 2004 SSPD meeting will be held on Monday, October 25 from 7:30-10 p.m. in San Diego, CA. If you or your students are interested in presenting a 15-20 min informal paper on your research on the stimulus properties of drugs, please submit an abstract to our Secretary/Treasurer Joe Porter (jporter@vcu.edu) by September 1, 2004 (or sooner if available abstracts will be accepted in order of receipt).

SSPD Elections

If anyone is interested or would like to nominate someone for SSPD Secretary/Treasurer please email Ellen Walker (ellen.walker@temple.edu) by July 1, 2004. Joe Porter has expressed his willingness to continue as Secretary/Treasurer for one more term.

2003 SSPD Meeting at SfN

Last year, as discussed above, SSPD hosted an evening paper session at the Society for Neurosciences in New Orleans, LA (see photo from the annual meeting at the end of the newsletter). Thanks to Joe Porter for getting our room and snacks organized. We would like to thank our five speakers, Steve Negus, Scott Philibin, Amy Goodwin, Randy James, and Ellen Walker, for presenting such interesting papers and initiating lively discussions on issues relating to the stimulus properties of drugs.

The abstracts for the talks are listed on the next page.

Summer 2004

Archive of Newsletters

Generous Gifts from Corporate Sponsors

Call for Abstracts for 2004 SSPD Meeting

SSPD Elections

2003 SSPD Meeting at SfN