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Centre for Physiology and Biochemical Research (CPBR)
The Russian Society for BioPsychiatry (RSBP)

8-th Multidisciplinary International Conference

of Biological Psychiatry
"Stress and Behavior"
St-Petersburg, Russia
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May 17-19, 2004



Welcoming address
from the Conference Chair



Dear colleagues,


I am delighted to welcome the delegates of the 8th Multidisciplinary
conference of biological psychiatry "Stress and behavior" which in 2004 we
held in St Petersburg - Russia's other capital and one of the most
beautiful cities in Europe.

We, neuroscientists, have to be very proud. Because we study the most
challenging and the most complex object in the biomedical sciences - the
brain and behaviour. For us, there is nothing more exciting than the Brain
and its - still undiscovered - abilities. 2004 is a special year since we
celebrate the 100th anniversary to Ivan Pavlov's Nobel prize in physiology
and medicine (1904). Our conference, in fact, opens a number of events held
in Russia this year, dedicated to this occasion and paying a tribute to the
Scientist whose ideas influence many generations of neuroscientists.

We acknowledge the key role of the Russian Society for Biopsychiatry
(RSBP) and the Ukrainian Society for Biological Psychiatry (USBP) in
organizing the Conference and setting up its exciting multidisciplinary
program. It gives me a pleasure to mention collaboration with CIANS, the
Problem Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences on energy metabolism,
the Russian Sleep Research Society, and many research institutes which
contributed both intellectually and organizationally to the Conference. We
would also like to thank the Institute of Experimental Medicine, the
Institute of Physiology, the Military Medical Academy, and the Museum of
Medical History, for organizing and hosting our specialized conference
symposia.

On behalf of the Conference Organizing Committee, I cordially welcome
all specialists in the field of biological psychiatry, representing 30
countries worldwide, to our Conference. So let us stay open-minded and
enjoy our international multidisciplinary forum in the company of new
friends and colleagues.

100 years ago, concluding his Nobel lecture, Pavlov noted:
".Essentially only one thing in life interests us: our psychical
constitution, the mechanism of which was and is wrapped in darkness. All
human resources, art, religion, literature, philosophy and historical
sciences, all of them join in bringing light in this darkness. But man has
still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly
objective methods ...." Today, in the XXIst century, human and animal
behaviours are still so far from being understood. But we have at our
disposal "powerful resources" - the modern biomedical sciences: psychiatry
and neuroscience, with their "strictly objective methods" - to explore the
enigmas of the Brain.

I want to see this conference as an important contribution to this
exciting area of research. I hope it will promote our further understanding
of brain and behaviour, which one day - let us be great dreamers! - will
bring some new Nobel laureates to the science of Brain.


Cordially,






Dr. Allan V. Kalueff, PhD,


Conference Chair, Director,


Centre for Physiology and Biochemical Research

(Moscow, Russia)


Centre for Physiology and Biochemical Research (CPBR)
The Russian Society for BioPsychiatry (RSBP)

8-th Multidisciplinary International Conference

of Biological Psychiatry
"Stress and Behavior"
St-Petersburg, Russia
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May 17-19, 2004




Welcoming address
of the President of the Russian Society for BioPsychiatry








Dear colleagues! Ladies and Gentlemen!


Let me welcome you to the 8th CPBR-RSBP Multidisciplinary conference
of Biological Psychiatry "Stress and Behaviour". For 8 years neuroscietists
have been meeting regularly to discuss current issues of our specialities
and share our scientific achievements. For 8 years we enrich each other
with scientific ideas and, as a result, further promote our knowledge of
human and animal psychology.

This co-existence of academic science and free, informal scientific
community is very fruitful, as creativity cannot be put into tight frames
and strict plans. I hope that you will all agree that such tradition - the
dialogue between biologists and psychiatrists - gives us truly encouraging
and fruitful bilateral insights for further researches and clinical
practice. A marked success has gained recent World Biopsychiatry congress
in Australia (February 2004) - an encouraging example of how efforts of
different biomedical professionals may stimulate further research in the
field of psychopathology. Our 8th Conference on biological psychiatry of
stress also shows that this topic attracts many prominent and talented
scientists worldwide.



Biological psychiatry, as we all know, is a part of psychiatry,
studying ethiology and pathogenesis of psychiatric illnesses based on
achievements and methods of natural sciences. This Conference deals with
biomedical mechanisms of stress and behavioral responses of humans and
animals. The concept, methods and models used in research of stress
neuroscience have expanded our understanding of numerous areas of biology
and medicine during the past decade. In this sense, this meeting represents
major and creative attempts to broaden research on biopsychiatry. Such
efforts are made possible in great part because of the fundamental
discoveries that have been made in the sciences in general, and in
biopsychiatry and allied disciplines in particular. There is a major need
to expand such efforts further and to bring continuously the new knowledge
from basic research areas to the scientists who are involved in the more
short term applied research.

The Russian Society for BioPsychiatry has found its collaboration with
the Conference and its symposia organizers particularly fruitful in that
regard. The Organizing and the Program Committees for this, as for previous
meetings, are to be congratulated for the selection of subjects for the
Program and for ensuring the participation in it of prominent scientists
representing 30 countries worldwide. Indeed, the conference would not have
been possible without the great efforts of the Conference organizing
Committee, standing firmly all these years behind our growing forum. The
conference has received a great support from our St. Petersburg colleagues
- professors V. Klimenko, P. Shabanov, V. Shalyapina, V. Bagaev, B.
Margulis, Yu. Pastuhov and Dr. Yu. Golikov. We shall thank them all for
their enthusiasm and activity. Finally, special pleasure is to mention the
collaboration with "Psychopharmacology and Biological Narcology" - a
professional and interesting journal publishing our conference proceedings.


On behalf of all my colleagues from the Russian Society for
BioPsychiatry, may I wish you a successful and enriching conference. I hope
that this meeting will make another major success in the series of these
important multidisciplinary international forums.




Professor Oleg. G. Syropiatov, PhD, MD

Professor of Psychiatry
President, the Russian Society for BioPsychiatry











Centre for Physiology and Biochemical Research (CPBR)
The Russian Society for BioPsychiatry (RSBP)

8-th Multidisciplinary International Conference

of Biological Psychiatry
"Stress and Behavior"
St-Petersburg, Russia
[pic]

May 17-19, 2004



Welcoming address
from the Program Committee Chair



Dear colleagues! Dear guests!


The history of biological psychiatry is tenaciously associated with the
names of outstanding physiologists I. Sechenov, I. Pavlov, V. Bechterev, A.
Ukhtomsky, N. Vvedensky and many others, who lived and worked in St.
Petersburg.

Our conference takes place in the year of a memorable anniversary: it
was a century ago that I.P. Pavlov, an outstanding Russian physiologist,
was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine. The contribution
made by Pavlov is impossible to overestimate. His studies in the field of
physiology of digestion merited the Nobel Prize, initiated the main lines
of future research. The research which revealed the role of nervous system
in the regulation of physiological functions, on the one hand, and
demonstrated the no less important participation of humoral mechanisms, on
the other. At the same time they were also a starting point of numerous
studies which laid the foundation for a new branch of neurosciences -
Physiology of higher nervous activity.



Pavlov's studies of conditioned reflex based further development of
neuroscience and brought world-wide respect and recognition. It is also
necessary to emphasize that the outstanding scientist was very persistent
in his striving to use fundamental knowledge in studies of experimental
pathology so that later on they could become a part of medical practice.

Nowadays, in the view of our recently gained knowledge, Pavlov's ideas
reveal a new depth. In their research, neuroscientists are now able to go
down to cellular, membrane or even molecular level basing at the same time
on the integrative approach to systemic functions. It provides us with the
opportunity to understand fine mechanisms of their regulation. Discovery of
intercellular, intra- and intersystem interactions performed through
neuromediators and hormones of different chemical nature, including
regulatory peptides, lays the basis for new approaches to study adaptation
to stressful factors, pathogenic mechanisms and mechanisms of normal and
deviant behaviors.

We hope that our discussions on integrative, molecular and cellular
mechanisms of CNS activities, and their adaptation to constantly changing
environment, which will take place during the conference, shall not only
help us to summarize the achievements in these fields, but will also be a
powerful stimulus to their further fruitful development for the benefit of
the world neuroscience.

Finally, I would like to mention our unique city. St. Petersburg is a
very beautiful city. There will be a wide choice of possibilities for
visiting the museums, theaters, the wonderful rich palaces of Russian
emperors located around the city and, of course, enjoy the beauty of famous
Petersburg Nights with bridges opened across the Neva river. We do hope
that the beauty of St. Petersburg will inspire you to the new discoveries
in the brain sciences.


With best wishes,





Professor Victor M. Klimenko, PhD, MD

Chair of the Conference Program Committee
Head of Pavlov Department of Physiology,
Institute for Experimental Medicine
(St. Petersburg, Russia)