September 11–13, 1998
Oglebay Resort and Conference Center
Wheeling, West Virginia
Richard Horn, PhD
Professor of Physiology and Director of the Institute of Hyperexcitability, Jefferson Medical College
“Conversations Between the Voltage Sensors and Gates of a Sodium Channel”
Dennis D.M. O’Leary, PhD
Professor of Molecular Neurobiology, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
“Mechanisms and Molecules Controlling Retinal Axon Guidance and Mapping in the Developing Brain”
Richard D. Palmiter, PhD
Professor of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle
“Life Without Catecholamines”
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurosciences and Psychology, University of California, San Diego
“What Neurological Syndromes Reveal About Human Nature: Lessons from Phantom Limbs, Neglect and Asymbolia”
Peter L. Strick, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology, SUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse
“Basal Ganglia and Cerebellar Loops with the Cerebral Cortex: Motor and Cognitive Circuits”