24th – 28th September 1978
Shoreham-Americana Hotel
Washington, DC
‘Because of its specific concern with the diseases of the nervous system, neuropathology is a science of immediate and urgent importance to mankind. The attainment of new knowledge in all of the neurosciences has accelerated tremendously in recent years, and I am confident that we are on the threshold of a series of major medical breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of nervous system diseases. I applaud the worldwide cooperation in evidence at these sessions, and I hope your deliberations will stimulate dramatic advances in this vital area.’
– from President Jimmy Carter’s letter to the ISN, 15 August 1978
Symposium titles:
- Disorders of peripheral nerves: neurobiological approaches
- Developmental neuropathology
- Aging of the brain
- Brain tumors
- Neuronal and glial processes in neuropathology
Documents from the ISN Archive:
Letter from US President Jimmy Carter
Greetings from Washington DC’s Mayor
VIIIth ICN Tentative Programme part 1
VIIIth ICN Tentative Programme part 2
