This book, the seventh in the series 'Research and Perspectives in
Neuroscience', contains the procedings of a meeting that was held in
Paris on October14, 1996. The conference consisted of invited papers and
poster presentations. The invited papers, included in this volume, were
on cell proliferation prior to neuronal migration, on cellular and
molecular factors characteristic of neuronal migration, and on
postmigrational neuronal and axonal plasticity. There was a section
devoted to disorders of neuronal migration and plasticity and the
genetics of some developmental disorders. Great strides have been made
in this relatively young branch of modern neuroscience.