Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Fla. Following is a list of the planned symposia and lectures scheduled du- ing the conference:

Decade of the Brain Lecture, 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.:
"Consolidating the gains in brain"

Presidential Special Lecture, 10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: "Cell death in development and disease" History of Neuroscience Lecture, 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.:
"Evolving concepts of function of the neocortex"

11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.:
"Molecular studies of physiological functions of glutamate receptor"

4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.:
"The molecular biology and biophysics of prions causing CNS degeneration"

8:00 a.m.:
"Molecular mechanisms of axon guidance"; "Genes with triplet repeats in neuropsychic illness"

1:00 p.m.:
"Neuroscience implications of inborn errors of metabolism"; "Mo-lecular mechanisms of controlling K+ channel diversity and distribution in the nervous system"

8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m.:
"The biology of memory: From synapses to systems"

Presidential Special Lecture, 4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.:
"Transient and enduring effects of experience: Functional studies of the visual...

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