Saturday, August 31

Neurotransmitter targets, cont.

Chair: Françoise Beaugé, Criteil
Rainer Spanagel, Mannheim: The role of glutamate - animal
studies
Sture Liljequist, Stockholm: Glutamate-dopamine interaction
with special reference to dependence-producing drugs
Coffee break

09.00 - 09.30

09.30 - 10.00

10.00 - 10.30

10.30 - 11.00

Karl Mann, Mannheim: The role of excitatory amino acids -
human studies
Kalervo Kiianmaa, Helsinki: The role of opioid systems in
ethanol self-administration behavior: studies in alcohol-
preferring AA and alcohol-avoiding ANA rats
Jonathan Chick, Edinburgh: Opioid antagonists in treatment of
alcoholism: a review of human studies
Lunch

11.00 - 11.30

11.30 - 12.00

12.00 - 13.00

Chair: Göran Wahlström, Umeå
Giancarlo Colombo, Cagliari: Cross talk between opioid and
cannabinoid receptors in the control of alcohol intake
Gian Luigi Gessa, Cagliari: Reducing effect of baclofen on
alcohol intake and reinforcement - animal studies
Coffee break

13.00 - 13.30

13.30 - 14.00

14.00 - 14.30

14.30 - 15.00

Giovanni Addolorato, Rome: Efficacy of baclofen in the
treatment of alcohol addiction
Bo Söderpalm, Göteborg: Nicotinic receptors - a target for
ethanol
Otto Lesch, Vienna: Nicotine smoking – a predictor for
alcoholism course

15.00 - 15.30

15.30 - 16.00

18.30 ~ 23.30

Boat ride, including dinner and entertainment on board,
through the Göteborg Archipelago to MarstrandIsland-
back to Göteborg by bus.
The busses leave from the hotels, Quality Hotel Panorama
(Address; Eklandagatan 51-53, Phone; +46 31 767 70 00) and
Hotel Poseidon(Address; Storgatan 33, Phone; +46 31 10 05
50) at 18.30 (sharp).
The buss will take you to Lilla Bommen, where the boat, Carl
Michael Bellman, will leave at 19.00 for the cruise along the
coast to Marstrand Island.
Leaving Marstrand Island around 22.00 by buss. Back in
Göteborg at elevenish.