Sunday

Sunday, September 9: SESSION 1

DRUGS OF ABUSE

1. Cocaine sensitization and reward are bidirectionally modulated by per 1 and per 2 genes: C. Abarca, U. Albrecht and R. Spanagel (Germany)

2. NIDA medications discovery programs: efficacy- and safety-related testing: J. B. Acri, N. Appel, D. J. McCann and A. Patel (USA)

3. Peculiar vulnerability to nicotine oral self-administration in mice during early adolescence: W. Adriani, S. Macrì, G. Laviola and R. Pacifi (Italy)

4. Novelty-seeking behaviour and operant oral ethanol self-administration in Wistar rats: P. Bienkowski, E. Koros and W. Kostowski (Poland)

5. Differential AMPA antagonist potentiation of 7-OH-DPAT effects on CPP, ICSS and locomotor activity: A. M. Biondo, R. L. H. Clements and A. J. Greenshaw (Canada)

6. Neuronal nicotinic receptors containing the alpha-2 subunit mediate the depressant responses to nicotine on locomotor activity in mice: A. Blondel, M. Shoaib, I. Stolerman, R. Grailhe and J.-P. Changeux (France)

7. Cortical and striatal conditioned neurochemical responses to environmental cues associated with cocaine self-administration in rhesus monkeys: C. W. Bradberry (USA)

8. Adolescent exposure to a low dose of methylphenidate decreases dopamine neuronal activity in adult rats: C. L. Brandon, M. Marinelli and F. J. White (USA)

9. 5-HT1A receptors and cocaine effects: unuconditioned versus conditioned behavioral effects: Robert J. Carey, E. N. Damianopoulos and G. DePalma (USA)

10. Interaction between nicotine and the endogenous cannabinoid system in CB1 knockout mice: A. Castañé, E. Valjent, C. Ledent, M. Parmentier, R. Maldonado and O. Valverde (Spain)

11. Modulation of locomotor responses to D1 and D2 dopamine receptor agonists by viral-mediated over-expression of AMPA receptor subunits in the rat nucleus accumbens: K.-H. Choi, S. Edwards, R. Hoppenot, R. L. Neve and D. W. Self (USA)

12. Behavioral activation effects of intraventricular administration of ethanol and acetaldehyde in rats: implications for the role of central ethanol metabolism in the effects of ethanol: M. Correa, M. N. Arizzi, C. M. G. Aragon, M. Miquel, C. Sanchis-Segura and J. D. Salamone (Spain)

13. Enhanced ethanol consumption by neuronal glucocorticoid receptor knockout mice: M. S. Cowen, K. C. Schroff, F. Tronché and R. Spanagel (Germany and France)

14. Behavioural interactions between cocaine and nicotine: a drug discrimination analysis: R. I. Desai, D. J. Barber and P. Terry (UK)

15. Attenuation of cue-controlled drug-seeking by a selective D3 dopamine receptor antagonist: P. Di Ciano, R. Underwood, J. J. Haganand B. J. Everitt (UK)

16. Involvement of D1 and D2 dopaminergic receptors in cocaine-seeking behaviour reinstatement: effect of peripheral and intra-accumbens administration: C. Dias and M. Cador (France)

17. Differential dose effects of D9-tetrahydrocannabinol on behaviour and gene expression: A. Egerton, J. A. Pratt and R. Brett (UK)

18. Discriminative stimulus effects of GHB in pigeons: C. P. France (USA)

19. Unconditioned and conditioned effects of opiate withdrawal: analysis of c-fos mRNA expression in the rat brain: F. Frenois, M. Cador, L. Stinus and C. Le Moine (France)

20. Endogenous cannabinoids are critical for newborn food intake and development: involvement of lysophopshatidic acid? E. Fride, E. Rosenberg and R. Mechoulam (Israel)

21. Comparative study of D2/D3-ligands in the place conditioning model in rats: K. Gál and I. Gyertyán (Hungary)

22. Acute and chronic behavioural responses to cannabinoids in mu, delta, or kappa opioid receptor knockout mice: S. Ghozland, D. Filliol, F. Simonin, H. Matthes, B. L. Kieffer and R. Maldonado (France)

23. Preclinical assessment of the reinforcing effects of cannabinoids: S. R. Goldberg (USA)

24. Application of a differential outcome procedure to a MDMA-LSD-saline discrimination in rats: A. K. Goodwin, D. Pynnonen and L. E. Baker (USA)

25. Withdrawal from chronic administration of drugs of abuse increases anxiety-like behaviour in rats: P. Gruca, E. Moryl and M. Papp (Poland)

26. Pharmacokinetic differences of morphine and morphine glucuronides are reflected in locomotor pharmacodynamics: M. Handal, S. Skurtveit, M. Grung, Å. Ripel and J. Mørland (Norway)

27. Influence of repeated deprivations on the occurrence of an alcohol deprivation effect in mice: S. M. Hölter (Germany)

28. Experience of heroin when in withdrawal increases drug seeking through incentive learning mechanisms: D. M. Hutcheson, T. W. Robbins, A. Dickinson and B. J. Everitt (UK )

29. The effect of blockade of NMDA and metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGLUR5) in nicotine-dependent rats: P. J. Kenny, C. Wright, F. Gasparini and A. Markou (Switzerland)

30. Controlled evaluation of anesthesia-assisted heroin detoxification: the Columbia study: H. D. Kleber, E. D. Collins and R. A. Whittington (USA)

31. Orphanin FQ/nociceptin, but not Ro 65-6570, inhibits the expression of cocaine induced conditioned place preference: J. Kotlinska, J. Wichmann, A. Legowska, K. Rolka and J. Silberring (Poland)

32. Coadministration of low doses of NMDA receptor antagonist with mGluR II agonist: effects on morphine tolerance: E. Kozela and P. Popik (Poland)

ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, PSYCHOSIS AND EMOTION

33. Atypical anti-psychotic profile of the adenosine A2A receptor agonist CGS 21680 in Cebus Apella monkeys: M. B. Andersen, K. Fuxe, T. Werge and J. Gerlach (Sweden)

34. Metabotropic glutamate group II receptor compounds in animal models of psychosis: T. M. Ballard, A.-M. Ouagazzal, T. Woltering, G. Adam, V. Mutel and G. A. Higgins (Switzerland)

35. Effects of the atypical neuroleptic clozapine in the prepulse inhibition paradigm: T. Bast, W.-N. Zhang and J. Feldon (Switzerland)

36. Dopamine is involved in the control of the speed of recovery of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis after termination of exposure to stress: X. Belda, C. Márquez and A. Armario (Spain)

37. Antidepressants block IFN-alpha-induced anhedonia in the rat: I. Bethus, S. Sammut, R. Muscat and G. Goodall (France and Malta)

38. Emotional reactivity in opossums Monodelphis Domestica: J. W. Blaszczyk and K. Turlejski (Poland)

39. Correction of mixed anxious-depressive state in male mice by novel enterosorbent noolit: J. I. Borodin, M. V. Tenditnik, N. N. Kudryavtseva, L. N. Rachkovskaya, A. V. Shurlygina and V. A. Trufakin (Russia)

40. Effects of repeated testing in multiple strains of inbred mice in two mouse models of anxiety: stress-induced hyperthermia and light-dark test: J. A. Bouwknecht and R. Paylor (USA)

41. Anxiolytic-like effects of the mGluR5 antagonist, MPEP, in two assays of conditioned anxiety: C. Busse and J. Brodkin (USA)

42. Social interaction in gerbils: a test for anxiolytic action: S. Cheeta, S. Tucci, C. Akanezi, J. Sandhu and S. E. File (UK)

43. Anxiety and behavior of WAG/Rij rats: N. E. Chepurnova, U. A. Klueva, A. A. Martyanov, S. A. Chepurnov and E. L. J. M. van Luijtelaar (Russia and The Netherlands)

44. The role of NMDA receptors in mediating tolerance to benzodiazepine anxiolytics: L. Claase and J. A. Pratt (UK)

45. A study of anxiety in mice by principal component analysis: Y. Clément, C. Kopp, C. Misslin and G. Chapouthier (France)

46. The dorsal raphe nucleus mediates the anxiolytic effects of 5-HT1A receptor agonists and antagonists: S. Coubard and P. Barone (France)

47. Functional heterogeneity of the medial prefrontal cortex in fear-related behaviour: E. Coutureau, S. L. Dix and S. Killcross (UK)

48. Dopamine-b-hydroxylase deficient mice as a tool to assess the role of norepinephrine in the mechanism of action of antidepressant drugs.: J. F. Cryan, A. Dalvi, I. Lucki^, and S. A. Thomas (USA)

49. The comparison of rabbits' reactions in stress condition, after administration of diazepam (DZ) and the new anxiolytic CM-346: R. Czabak-Garbacz , B. Cygan, M. Chomicki and A. Anasiewicz (Poland)

50. Functional interactions between group II mGlu receptors and D1-like- and D2-like receptors in the rat nucleus accumbens: H. N. David and J. H. Abraini (France)

51. Infusion of the glutamate uptake inhibitor L-trans-PDC in the rat nucleus accumbens increases basal locomotor activity but attenuates the locomotor response to d-amphetamine: H. N. David, A. Thevenoux and J. H. Abraini (France)

52. Stress-induced alterations of cortisol, memory and cerebral metabolites: gender differences in tree shrews: G. de Biurrun, T. Michaelis, T. Watanabe, J. Frahm and E. Fuchs (Germany)

53. The selective noradrenaline (NA) reuptake inhibitor (NARI), reboxetine, elicits a specific discriminative stimulus in rats: A. Dekeyne, A. Gobert, L. Iob and M. J. Millan (France)

54. Discriminative stimulus properties of the selective serotonin (5-HT)2A antagonist, MDL100,907, in rats: A. Dekeyne, L. Iob, P. Hautefaye and M. J. Millan (France)

55. Antidepressive and anxiolytic effects of 8-OH-DPAT and fluoxetine require activation of different 5-HT1A receptor populations: J. De Vry, K. R. Jentzsch, C. Melon and R. Schreiber (Germany)

56. Dissociable roles of the nucleus accumbens core and shell in fear-related behaviours in rats: S. L. Dix, E. Coutureau and S. Killcross (UK)

57. Effects of gender and antidepressant treatment in the chronic mild stress (CMS) model in BALB/c: C. Ducottet, G. Griebel, A. Aubert and C. Belzung (France)

58. Repeated diazepam withdrawal: is the apparent amelioration of withdrawal aversion a form of learned helplessness? S. J. Dunworth and D. N. Stephens (UK)

59. The effects of psychotomimetic agents on response switching in the rat: J. Evenden (USA)

60. Activity profile of E-6006 citrate and its enantiomers in animal models of depression: A. Fisas, X. Codony, X. Guitart, M. Jane and A.J. Farre (Spain)

61. GABA, glutamate and aspartate levels in the brain of mice with different behavioral response to ethanol (microdialysis in vivo): M. Fiserova, M. Krsiak and J. Vavrova (Czech Republic)

62. Coding and central representation of sharp dental pain in man: O. Franzén and M. Ahlquist (Sweden)

63. Effect of EGIS-10227 in tests predictive of positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia: I. Gacsályi, É. Schmidt, K. Pallagi and G. Lévay (Hungary)

64. Effect of dopamine D3 receptor ligands on locomotor activity in mice: I. Gyertyán, K. Sághy and I. Laszlovszky (Hungary)

65. Social stress, anxiety, and the anxiolytic efficacy of buspirone in female rats: J. Haller, J. Baranyi, J. Halász and C. Leveleki (Hungary)

66. Chronic treatment with the antidepressant citalopram attenuates the increases in 24-hour mean core body temperature induced by repeated social defeat of male NMRI mice: A. J. Keeney, S. Hoggand C. A. Marsden (UK)

67. Peptides in stress-sleep relations: V. M. Kovalzon (Russia)

68. Association between experience of aggression and anxiety in male mice: N. N. Kudryavtseva, N. P. Bondar and D. F. Avgustinovich (Russia)

69. Use of Tonic immobility in the guinea pig as a measure of antidepressant or anxiolytic activity: C. Kurre-Olsen and S. Hogg (Denmark)

BEHAVIOURAL SENSITIZATION

70. Effect of acute and repeated d-amphetamine in mice lacking the dopamine transporter: G. Biala, C. Spielewoy, C. Roubert, M. Hamon, C. Betancur and B. Giros (France)

71. Development of conditioned locomotion induced by chronic cocaine in C57BL/6J mice: influence of the time of day: C. Brabant, S. Tambour and E. Tirelli (Belgium)

72. Subchronic caffeine administration sensitizes rats to the motor activating effects of dopamine D1 and D2 agonists: O. Cauli and M. Morelli (Italy)

73. Effects of sensitisation on Pavlovian or Instrumental learning may be secondary to enhanced discrimination: P. K. Hitchcott, E. Setzu, A. Vugler and G. D. Phillips (UK)

74. Metabotropic glutamate receptors and the expression of locomotor sensitization by amphetamine: J.-H. Kim and P. Vezina (USA)

IMPULSIVITY

75. Profiles of impulsive behaviour and D-amphetamine-induced conditioning in adolescent mice: W. Adriani and G. Laviola (Italy)

76. Task-dependent effects of dopaminergic and serotonergic drugs in animal models of impulsivity: A. Blokland, M. M. Nijholt, A. Sik and C. K. J. Lieben (The Netherlands)

77. Possible roles for the infralimbic cortex in impulsivity and reversal learning: Y. Chudasama and T. W. Robbins (UK)

78. Individual differences in impulsivity in youth: long-term effects on cognitive processes: F. Dellu-Hagedorn and H. Simon (France)

79. Investigation of inhibitory control in rats using a stop-signal reaction time task: D. M. Eagle and T. W. Robbins (UK)

80. Gender dissociably affects attentional function and impulsivity in rats: J. D. Jentsch and J. R. Taylor (USA)

MOTIVATION

81. Responses of tonically active neurons in the monkey striatum to appetitive and aversive stimuli: P. Apicella, S. Ravel and E. Legallet (France)

82. Enhanced motivation after bilateral lesions of the subthalamic nucleus in the rat: C. Baunez, T. W. Robbins and M. Amalric (France and UK)

83. Different effects of nicotine and motivational level on performance in the rat five-choice serial reaction time task: L. Bizarro and I. Stolerman (UK)

84. Involvement of the orbital prefrontal cortex in guidance of instrumental behavior of rats by stimuli predicting reward magnitude: I. Bohn, C. Giertler and W. Hauber (Germany)

85. Motivational disturbances following neonatal ventral hippocampal lesions in the rat: an animal model of substance use comorbidity in schizophrenia: R. A. Chambers and D. W. Self (USA)

86. Somatostatin-28 modulates reward processes and prepulse inhibition of startle, without affecting locomotor activity: J. Chevrette, D. Hoyer, V. Lehmann-Masten, M. Geyerand A. Markou (USA and Switzerland)

87. Seeking for food in rats: involvement of dopamine D2/D3 receptors: C. Duarte, M. Hamon and M. H. Thiébot (France)

88. Reward responses of dopamine neurons to probabilistic reinforcement: C. D. Fiorillo and W. Schultz (Switzerland)

89. Involvement of the nucleus accumbens in guidance of instrumental behavior of rats by stimuli predicting reward magnitude: C. Giertler, I. Bohn and W. Hauber (Germany)

90. Blockade of sexually-rewarded conditioned place preference by tegmental pedunculopontine nucleus lesions: T. E. Kippin and D. Van der Kooy (Canada)

91. Influence of reward expectation on visuospatial processing: S. Kobayashi, J. Lauwereyns, M. Koizumi, M. Sakagami and O. Hikosaka (Japan)

DISEASES AND MODELS OF PATHOLOGY

92. Beneficial effects of metabotropic glutamate receptors antagonism in a rat model of Parkinson's disease: N. Breysse, C. Baunez, W. Spooren, F. Gasparini and M. Amalric (France and Switzerland)

93. Corticotropin-releasing factor decreases prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle response in two rat strains: L. H. Conti and M. P. Printz (USA)

94. Dopaminergic modulation of planning and spatial working memory in Parkinson's disease: the role of prefrontal-striatal circuitry revealed by PET: R. Cools, E. Stefanova, R. A. Barker, T. W. Robbins and A. M. Owen (UK)

95. High frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus decreases circling behaviour induced by apomorphine in hemi-parkinsonian rats: Y. Darbaky, C. Forni, M. Amalric and C. Baunez (France)

96. Spect and cognitive deficits in obstructive sleep apnea: A. Décary, I. Rouleau and J. Montplaisir (Canada)

97. Is high frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus excitatory? Evidence from simulation study: P. F. Dominey, G. Chouvet and M. Savasta (France)

98. The effects of NMDA-receptor antagonist on amphetamine-stimulated dopamine release: M. Dvorkina, I. Afanas'ev, I. Novoselov, A. Sorokin, E. Anderzhanova and K. Rayevsky (Russia)

99. The manual haptic perception of orientation and oblique effect in patients with left visuo-spatial neglect: E. Gentaz and M. Badan (France and Switzerland)

100. Striatum GABA concentration in vivo in diabetic rats submitted to the forced-swimming test: R. Gomez, C. Vargas, M. Wajner and H. M. T. Barros (Brazil)

101. Predator stress abolished and reversed differences in spatial learning of apolipoprotein E knockout and wild type mice: J. Grootendorst, E. R. de Kloet, S. Dalm and M. S. Oitzl (The Netherlands)

102. Kinematic analyses of fast diadochokinetic movements of the "non-impaired" hand after stroke. The dependency of deficits on lesion location and apraxia: J. Hermsdörfer and G. Goldenberg (Germany)

103. Polysomnographic evaluation of sleep deprivation in sleepwalkers and controls: S. Joncas, A. Zadra and J. Montplaisir (Canada)

104. Epileptization failed after chronic GABA-A receptors blocking during pregnancy of WAG/Rij rats: U. A. Klueva, N. E. Chepurnova and E. L. J. M. van Luijtelaar (Russia and The Netherlands)

ATTENTION AND PERCEPTION

105. Colour, form, and movement are not perceived simultaneously: C. Aymoz and P. Viviani (Italy)

106. Light exposure of chick embryo as a determinant of monocular sleep: D. Bobbo, F. Galvani, G. G. Mascetti and G. Vallortigara (Italy)

107. Residual effects of hypnotics on antisaccades: M.-L. Bocca and P. Denise (France)

108. Examination of the ability of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors to attenuate both pharmacological and/or parametric induced performance deficits in the 5 choice serial reaction time test in the rat: J. L. Bright and R. Dias (UK)

109. Global motion detection learning is severely impaired in cats deprived early of pattern vision: K. Burnat, E. Vandenbussche and B. Zernicki (Belgium)

110. Blockade of NMDA receptor in the medial prefrontal cortex causes attentional dysfunction: reversal by clozapine: M. Carli, M. Baviera, C. Balducci and R. Samanin (Italy)

111. Attentional neglect syndrome following unilateral disruption of prefrontal cortico-striatal system: A. Christakou, T. W. Robbins and B. J. Everitt (UK)

112. Visual and anticipatory modulation in a free-choice task: a comparison of three cortical eye fields: B. Coe, M. Matsuzawa, and O. Hikosaka (Japan)

113. Visual imagery of movement facilitated by colour and motion stimuli: A. Fourkas, L. Hardy and M. Khan (UK)

114. Visual recognition of hands by persons born with only one hand: M. Funk and P. Brugger (Switzerland)

115. Are Backs of Hands Always Faster Recognized Than Palms? M. Funk, F. Wilkening and P. Brugger (Switzerland)

116. Nicotine-induced attentional enhancement in rats: effects of repeated exposures to nicotine: B. Hahn, M. Shoaib and I. P. Stolerman (UK)

117. Colour vision function and individual visual experiences: I. Intskirvel and M. Roinishvili (Georgia)

POSTURE AND MOVEMENT

118. Time uncertainty about movement initiation is reflected in the population activity of monkey motor cortical neurons: A. Bastian, G. Schöner and A. Riehle (France)

119. Population coding of the velocity of two dimensional movements in humans: a microneurographic study: M. Bergenheim and J.-P. Roll (France)

120. Has the motor cortex access to the proximal leg muscles during human gait? a TMS study: M. Bonnard, M. Camus and J. Pailhous (France)

121. Treadmill locomotion changes in rats born and reared after hypergravity: V. Bouët, F. Harlay, L. Borel, Y. Gahéry and M. Lacour (France)

122. Virtual hand-writting induced by well-patterned tendon vibration in humans: J.-C. Gilhodes and J.-P. Roll (France)

123. Estimation of the radius of a passively travelled circle: I. Israël, S. Glasauer, U. Munich, I. Siegler, L. Zupan and D. Merfeld (France and USA)

124. Multisensory integration in human postural control: role of the foot sole and ankle muscle afferents: A. Kavounoudias, R. Roll and J.-P. Roll (France)

AUDITION AND LANGUAGE

125. Event related brain potentials of abstract sequencing give a new insight towards the Neurophysiology of syntactic processing: M. Hoen and P. F. Dominey (France)

126. Speech perception and brain imaging: dichotic listening and PET: K. Hugdahl and I. Law (Norway)

127. Auditory association cortex lesions produce frequency-specific auditory recognition deficit in dogs: D. M. Kowalska, P. Kusmierek, A. Laszcz and J. Sadowska (Poland)

TIME AND SPACE

128. Differential effects of environmental housing upon spatial abilities of male and female rats: C. Brandner, R. Maurer and F. Schenk (Switzerland)

129. Sex differences and menstrual cycle effects on spatial performance in a virtual environment navigation task: V. Chabanne, P. Péruch and C. Thinus-Blanc (France)

130. Partial reinforcement has different effects on acquisition and retention of spatial learning in the Morris navigation task: R. Chalard and F. Schenk (Switzerland)

131. Glutamate-dopamine interactions in the nucleus accumbens: effects of a co-administration of dopaminergic agents and glutamatergic antagonists in the spatial information processing: R. Coccurello, M. Fantini and A. Mele (Italy)

132. Impaired learning in a spatial working memory version and in a cued version of the water maze in rats with MPTP-induced nigral lesions: C. Da Cunha, E. Miyoshi, M. Camplessei, R. Silveira and R. N. Takahashi (Brazil)

133. Early visual deprivation does not affect spatial representation in children: F. Gaunet, M. Ittyerah, G. Ramesh and Y. Rossetti (France and India)

134. Long-term visual removal affects pointing ability: the case of late blindness: F. Gaunet and Y. Rossetti (France)

135. Left-handedness in men and women is associated with different cognitive abilities: A. Grabowska, L. Krzywoszanski and P. Klepacki (Poland)

136. Relative weight of olfactory and spatial cues in a radial maze task by C57/Bl6 mice: N. Grandchamp, M. Spreng and F. Schenk (Switzerland)

137. Scopolamine impairs visual acuity in the water maze in mice: D. Harbaran and G. Riedel (Scotland)

138. The serial reaction time task: involvement of timing processes: A. H. J. Herremans, A. McCreary and T. Tuinstra (The Netherlands)

139. The subcortical anatomy of human spatial awareness: H.-O. Karnath, M. Himmelbach and C. Rorden (Germany)

LEARNING AND MEMORY: GENERAL

140. Role of prefrontal cortical dopamine in the performance of a spatial delayed alternation task: E. Acquas, A. Pisanu, P. Marrocu and G. Di Chiara (Italy)

141. The parabrachial nucleus and taste aversion learning: further evidence supporting an associative role: M. A. Ballesteros, I. Brugada, I. Moron, F. Gonzalez-Reyes, A. Candido and M. Gallo (Spain)

142. The basolateral nucleus of the amygdala and within compound associations: