• James H. Billington, D.Phil., The Librarian of Congress
• Steven E. Hyman, M.D., Director, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
• Senator Pete Domenici (New Mexico)

• V.S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Director, Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California-San Diego
  "The Artful Brain: What Neurology Can Tell Us of Human Nature and the Meaning of Art"

• Steven E. Hyman, M.D., moderator
• Larry R. Squire, Ph.D., Research Career Scientist, VA Medical Center, San Diego; Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, University of California-San Diego School of Medicine
  "Conscious and Unconscious Memory Systems of the Brain
• Robert Desimone, Ph.D., Scientific Director, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
  "How the Brain Pays Attention"
• Jonathan D. Cohen, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior, Princeton University; and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
  "Online Thinking in the Brain"

11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Panel: "Understanding Cognitive Disorders"

• Steven E. Hyman, M.D., moderator
• Bruce R. Rosen, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Massachusetts General Hospital NMR Center; Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
  "The Future of Functional Imaging"
• Daniel R.Weinberger, M.D., Chief, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
  "Cognitive Circuitry and the Cell Biology of Schizophrenia"
• Denise Park, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, The Center for Applied Cognitive Research on Aging, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan
  "The Aging Mind"

Participating speakers, plus special demonstrations by:

• Edward R. Flynn, Ph.D., Director, National Foundation for Functional Brain Imaging
• Edgar A. (Ted) DeYoe, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Cellular Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin

• Department of Neurology, University of California-Los Angeles Medical Center
• National Institute of Mental Health, NIH
• Live Satellite Video Tour of NIMH Labs filmed during the NAMI Convention in Chicago, July 2, 1999

Current research relating to treatment and prevention:

• Steven E. Hyman, M.D., moderator
• Eric Courchesne, Ph.D., Professor of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, University of California-San Diego
  "A Decade of Research on Autism: From Mystery to Insight and Hope"
• Martha Bridge Denckla, M.D., Director, Developmental Cognitive Neurology, The Kennedy Krieger Institute; and Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  "Beneath the Surface: Imaging Reveals Subcortical Brain Factors Underlying Learning Disabilities"
• Guinevere Eden, D. Phil., Assistant Professor, Georgetown University Medical Center
  "Using Functional Brain Imaging to Study the Reading Brain"
• Steve Petersen, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine
  "Studies of Memory: Implications for 'Born to Learn'"

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Panel: "Neuroscience and Society: The Promise of Neuroscience"

• Sandra Blakeslee, The New York Times, moderator
• Bruce S. McEwen, Ph.D., Professor and Head, Harold & Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University
  "Stress, the Brain, and Our Mental and Physical Health"
• V.S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D.
  Summary
• Steven E. Hyman, M.D. Closing remarks