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The BPS 2004 meeting was held April 16 - 17, just prior to the Federation of American Societies of Experimental Biology (FASEB) meeting, in the Renaissance Hotel, Washington DC.

  • 7:00AM - Continental breakfast, time for speakers to load talks.

  • 7:55AM - Welcome and opening remarks.

  • 8:00AM - Eric Fish, Tufts University, "The pleasure of aggression: GABAA receptor positive modulators and corticosterone"

  • 8:25AM - Jerry Richards, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychology - State University of New York at Buffalo, "Effects of acute and chronic nicotine on observing in rats"

  • 8:50AM - Brady Reynolds, University of Chicago and University of New York at Buffalo, "Dimensions of impulsivity in humans"

  • 9:15AM - Jim Woods, Department of Pharmacology - University of Michigan, "Yawning is a D3-receptor agonist-mediated behavior in rats."

  • 9:40AM - Rebecca Ralph-Williams, McLean Hospital - Harvard Medical School, "Dopaminergic regulation of prepulse inhibition and locomotor activity in rats and mice: strain and species differences"

  • 10:00AM - Break

  • 10:20AM - Michael F. O'Neill, Eli Lilly & Co Ltd., "Differential effects of monoamine reuptake inhibitors on locomotor and intracranial self-stimulation behaviour (ICSS) in rats"

  • 10:45AM - Bill Fantegrossi, Department of Pharmacology - University of Michigan, "Serotonin depletion and drug-elicited head twitch behavior in mice"

  • 11:10AM - John Roll, Washington State University at Spokane, "Human methamphetamine self-administration and alternative sources of reinforcement: laboratory and clinical data"

  • 11:35AM - William McKim, Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Wheel running reduces cocaine-induced conditioned place preference in rats"

  • 12:00PM - Andy Barrett, McLean Hospital - Harvard Medical School, "Cocaine self-administration and food maintained responding under a concurrent choice schedule of reinforcement in rats"

  • 12:15PM - Lunch and banter with Dave Jewitt and Jon Katz

  • 1:15PM - Kathleen Kantak, Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience - Boston University, "Multiple memory system functioning following persistent cocaine self-administration in rats"

  • 1:40PM - Elise Weerts, Johns Hopkins University, "Effects of GABAergic modulators on behavior maintained by food and cocaine"

  • 2:05PM - Leigh Panlilio, Preclinical Pharmacology Section, Behavioral Neuroscience Branch - NIDA-IRP/NIH/DHHS, "Reinstatement of punished drug self-administration in rats"

  • 2:30PM - Drake Morgan, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology - Wake Forest University, "A "hold-down" schedule of drug reinforcement"

  • 2:55PM - Carol Paronis, McLean Hospital - Harvard Medical School, "Context and the development of tolerance to antipunishment effects of midazolam"

  • 3:20PM - Break

  • 3:45PM - Glenn Stevenson, McLean Hospital--Harvard Medical School, "Targeting pain-suppressed behaviors in preclinical models of pain and analgesia: effects of morphine on feeding suppressed by intraperitoneal acetic acid injections"

  • 4:10PM - Michael Weed, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, "Oral morphine self-dosing and AIDS in macaques: behavioral, physiologic and immunologic effects"

  • 4:35 - Emily Jutkiewicz, Department of Pharmacology - University of Michigan, "Behavioral, seizurogenic, and convulsant effects of delta opioid agonists in rats"

  • 5:00PM - Lance McMahon, Deprtment of Pharmacology - The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, "Drug discrimination: tolerance to benzodiazepines without cross-tolerance to neuroactive steroids or barbiturates"

  • 5:25PM - James B. Smith, Mercer University School of Pharmacy, "Drug discrimination under identical conditions for training and testing"

  • 5:50PM - Adjourn