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| "Neuroscience at the New Millenium" Gerald D. Fischbach, MD Past Director, National Institute of Neurologic Diseases and Stroke United States National Institutes of Health Member, National Academy of Sciences  | PLEASE NOTE  You will need RealPlayer to listen to this lecture. Click HERE to download RealPlayer for free. Click HERE for instructions on selecting and downloading a version of RealPlayer that will work with your computer system. | 
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|  Lecture Posted December 10, 2000  This lecture was presented during the November, 2000 Society for Neuroscience annual meeting, held in New Orleans, Louisiana. We'd like to extend a thank you to Elsevier Science for their kind sponsorship of that event.  Click HERE to give us your opinion about this lecture. | |
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|  | Slide 1: The object of our study Click for: AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2 AUDIO 3 AUDIO 4 | 
| Slide 2: Ubiquity of neurodegeneration Click for: AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2 AUDIO 3 | |
| Slide 3: Reasons for Hope: Public Support for Research Click for: AUDIO 1 | |
| Slide 4: NIH Spending on Neuroscience Research=$3.4 billion: evidence of public support Click for: AUDIO 1 | |
| Slide 5: Reasons for Hope: Analysis of Synapses and Circuits: Focus on Parkinson's Disease Click for: AUDIO 1 | |
| Slide 6: Dopamine shown to be a neurotransmitter: synthesis may predict a treatment Click for: AUDIO 1 AUDIO 2 | |
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