Fall 2004
Professors Mark Braford, Cathy McCormick, Dennison Smith, and Lecturer Albert Borroni of the Neuroscience Department will be attending the 34th Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, October 23-27. Listed below are research results being presented there.

Albert Borroni: Presenting a poster titled: Learning and Memory Pharmacology: Glutamate Abstract Title: NMDA receptors and voltage-dependent calcium channels may serve synergistic or compensatory roles in acquisition and retention of a spatial memory task.

Dennison Smith and Jan Thornton: Presenting a poster titled: A comparison of neuroscience programs at Amherst, Oberlin, Smith, and Williams Colleges.
Authors: Sandstrom, Turgeon, George, Thornton, Smith, Hall and Harrington.

"The Society for Neuroscience is a nonprofit membership organization of basic scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system. Neuroscience includes the study of brain development, sensation and perception, learning and memory, movement, sleep, stress, aging and neurological and psychiatric disorders. It also includes the molecules, cells and genes responsible for nervous system functioning. Recognizing the tremendous potential for the study of the brain and nervous system as a separate field, the Society was formed in 1970. It has grown from 500 members to more than 36,000 and is the world's largest organization of scientists devoted to the study of the brain."

For more information, visit their website at http://apu.sfn.org