GENDER DIFFERENCES IN THE BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

这项建议要求提供资金，以赞助一个为期一天的专题讨论会， 大脑和行为的性别差异 卫星会 将在1999年国际行为学大会前一天举行， 1999年6月23日在法国南希举行的神经科学学会（IBNS）会议。 与这次国际行为学会议的联系 神经科学家将促进出勤率，促进广告， 促进美国边界以外的研究合作。 这次会议旨在汇集著名的研究人员， 生理、行为或认知方面的性别差异 结果。 会议的重点是神经化学和/或 这些行为性别相关差异的神经解剖学基础， 特别注重滥用药物（包括酒精）。 重点 选择发言者的目的是促进与下列问题有关的讨论： 两性在神经系统中的异同， 与药物滥用问题相关的潜在行为，特别是 压力在影响对药物滥用的反应方面的作用， 精神兴奋剂苯二氮类尼古丁和酒精 座谈会 围绕四个主题组织，包括1）性别，焦虑， 抗焦虑药（苯二氮卓类和酒精）2）性别和压力相关 3）性别和滥用药物，以及4）性激素的影响 关于行为。 这将是一个重要的场所， 科学家们可以讨论他们的发现有关性和性别 差异，并提供一个与国际社会互动的论坛 神经科学社区 虽然研讨会集中在 关于这一主题的基本方面，我们包括一个会议，重点是 潜在差异的更多临床方面（会议4，组织 由N. Ostrowski of Lilly）。 这次会议的主要目的是讨论目前的调查结果 与大脑和行为的性别差异有关， 对这一重要领域未来发展方向的影响。鉴于 最近强调的性别问题，由国家卫生研究院，拟议的研讨会将 在这个关键时刻提供了一个极好的机会来评估 性别之间的相似性和差异，以及神经化学或 神经解剖学系统，可能与未来的基础和 临床研究

This proposal requests funds to sponsor a one-day symposium entitled "Gender differences in the brain and behavior". The satellite meeting will be held one day prior to the 1999 International Behavioral Neuroscience Society (IBNS) meeting, on June 23,1999 in Nancy, France. The association with this meeting of international behavioral neuroscientists will promote attendance, facilitate advertising, and promote research collaborations beyond US boundaries. The meeting is designed to bring together noted researchers analyzing sex and gender differences with biological, behavioral or cognitive outcomes. The focus of the meeting is on the neurochemical and/or neuroanatomical bases for these behavioral sex-related differences, with a particular focus on drugs of abuse (including alcohol). The emphasis for speaker selection was to facilitate discussion related to the similarities and differences between the sexes in neural systems which underlie behaviors relevant to drug abuse issues, and particularly the role of stress in affecting responses to drugs of abuse including psychostimulants, benzodiazepines, nicotine and alcohol. The symposium is organized around four major themes, including 1) Gender, anxiety, and anxiolytics (Benzodiazepines and alcohol) 2) Gender and stress-related hormones, 3)Gender and drugs of abuse, and 4) Effects of sex hormones on behavior. This will be an important venue through which these scientists can discuss their findings relevant to sex and gender differences, and provide a forum for interaction with the international neuroscience community. Although the symposium concentrates on the basic aspects of this topic, we have included one session focusing on the more clinical aspects of potential differences (session 4, organized by N. Ostrowski of Lilly). The main objective of this meeting is to discuss current findings relevant to sex differences in brain and behavior, and their implications for future directions in this important field. Given the recent emphasis on gender issues by NIH, the proposed symposium will provide an excellent opportunity at this critical junction to assess similarities and differences between genders, and the neurochemical or neuroanatomical systems which might be relevant to future basic and clinical research.