Behavioral Teratology Symposium “Advances in Behavioral Teratology Testings”

The Behavioral Teratology Meeting, a satellite meeting to the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Teratology Meeting hold a symposium on behavioral teratology on July 24, 1986 in Tokyo. The invited to this symposium were four American speakers who came to Japan to attend the 4th International Congress of Toxicology. Presentations of these guest speakers appear as review articles in Congenital Anomalies following this communication. In general discussion, many critical and suggestive comments were expressed by the participants on the selected topics of behavioral teratology; 1) species and strains, 2) developmental stage, 3) positive controls, 4) procedures and 5) interpretation, and these were briefly introduced.