Gordon Research Conference on Neural Plasticity; July 17-21, 1989; Wolfeboro, New Hampshire

自1977年以来，戈登神经可塑性研究会议每隔一年在新罕布什尔州沃尔夫伯勒的布鲁斯特学院举行一次。戈登研究会议的建立是为了在非正式的环境中激发思想。GRC对出版物、会议记录或报告引用的限制促进了无拘无束的讨论。这种形式在神经可塑性会议上被证明是特别有用的——这是一个高度跨学科的会议，在这个会议上，神经系统的可修饰性在分子、细胞和系统水平上进行研究，与会者来自不同的背景（生化、药理学、解剖学、电生理、行为学）。有一天晚上专门安排了主题演讲和海报发布会。其余8次会议将集中讨论具体问题，安排3或4名发言者，以便保留大量的讨论时间。讨论往往在下午非正式地继续进行，因为下午没有安排正式会议。与会者的经验是，这些非正式的互动往往比其他会议所特有的长时间会议更富有成果。正式课程包括：学习的细胞和分子模型，成人大脑皮层的学习，神经发育和可塑性的遗传和激素模型，神经元受体的调节，肿瘤发生和神经可塑性，神经移植，NMDA受体和长期增强，以及离子通道在神经可塑性中的作用。

The Gordon Research Conference on Neural Plasticity has been held every alternate year since 1977 in July at Brewster Academy, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Gordon Research Conferences were established to stimulate ideas in an informal setting. Uninhibited discussion is fostered by GRC strictures on the publications, proceedings, or indeed the citation of presentations. The format has proved particularly useful in the conference on Neural Plasticity--a highly interdisciplinary meeting in which the subject of modifiability of the nervous system is examined at the molecular, cellular and systems levels and in which the participants come from broadly different backgrounds (biochemical, pharmacological, anatomical, electrophysiological, behavioral). One evening is set aside for a keynote speaker and poster session. The remaining eight sessions will focus on specific issues, with 3 or 4 scheduled speakers so that significant time is preserved for discussion. The discussion tends to continue informally during the afternoon, when no formal sessions are scheduled. It is the experience of participants that these informal interactions are often more fruitful than the extended sessions characteristic of other meetings. The formal program includes sessions on: cellular and molecular models of learning, learning in the adult cerebral cortex, genetic and hormonal models of neural development and plasticity, regulation of neuronal receptors, oncogenies and neural plasticity, neural grafting, NMDA receptors and long term potentiation, and the role of ion channels in neural plasticity.