Research
Recent advances in basic neurosciences and brain disease: from synapses to behavior
Author affiliations
1 Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA
2 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University, Boston, USA
3 Department of Pediatrics, and Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
4 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
5 Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
6 Centre for Synaptic Plasticity, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
7 Department of Biology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
8 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
9 Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
10 Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
11 Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine, New York, USA
12 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
13 Department of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan
14 NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, USA
15 Department of Physiology, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
16 Department of Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
17 Department of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
18 Department of Anesthesiology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
19 Department of Agricultural Chemistry, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
20 Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
21 Division of Anesthesiology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
22 Department of Neuroscience and High Throughput Biology Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
23 Department of Human Genetics, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
24 Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
25 Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
26 Sensory Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
27 Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
28 Department of Medical Genetics and Microbiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
29 Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, USA
30 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
31 Brain Research Center, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
32 NICHD, NIH, Bethesda, USA
33 Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
34 Department of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
35 Department of Basic Medicine, Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan
36 Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
37 Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, USA
38 Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Citation and License
Molecular Pain 2006, 2:38 doi:10.1186/1744-8069-2-38
Published: 30 December 2006Abstract
Understanding basic neuronal mechanisms hold the hope for future treatment of brain disease. The 1st international conference on synapse, memory, drug addiction and pain was held in beautiful downtown Toronto, Canada on August 21–23, 2006. Unlike other traditional conferences, this new meeting focused on three major aims: (1) to promote new and cutting edge research in neuroscience; (2) to encourage international information exchange and scientific collaborations; and (3) to provide a platform for active scientists to discuss new findings. Up to 64 investigators presented their recent discoveries, from basic synaptic mechanisms to genes related to human brain disease. This meeting was in part sponsored by Molecular Pain, together with University of Toronto (Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physiology as well as Center for the Study of Pain). Our goal for this meeting is to promote future active scientific collaborations and improve human health through fundamental basic neuroscience researches. The second international meeting on Neurons and Brain Disease will be held in Toronto (August 29–31, 2007).
