1h The 5 International Conference on the Progress in Alzheimer's Disease
and Parkinson's 51 1 Disease took place from March 31 to April 5 \ 2001
in Kroto, Japan. This international 1 conference was organized as a
joint Congress with the 9 International Catecholamine Symposium. A total
of 1258 clinicians and researchers participated in this joint congress
1h from 38 countries in the world. This book represents the proceedings
of the 5 Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The
International Conference on the Progress in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
disease was first launched by Professor Abraham Fisher of Israel and
Professor Israel Hanin of USA. The first conference was held in Eilat,
Israel in 1985. The second conference was organized in Kyoto, Japan in
1989; the third one in Chicago, USA, in 1993, and the fourth one in
Eilat, Israel in 1997. The International Catecholamine Symposium (ICS)
is an international meeting devoted to the development of basic as well
as clinical research on catecholamines. The first Catecholamine
Symposium was held in Bethesda, USA in 1958. Since then this symposium
has occurred every 5 years. Professor Toshiharu Nagatsu was appointed as
1h the president of the 9 International Catecholamine Symposium, which
was to be held in 200 I also in Japan. Therefore, we decided to organize
a joint congress of the two meetings, because there is much overlap in
research between Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and
catecholamines. We thank Professor Nagatsu very much for agreeing to
organizing this joint congress.