The brain decade in debate: IV. Chronobiology

The present article is the adapted version of an electronic symposium organ ized by the Brazilian Society of Neuroscience and Behavior (SBNeC) which to ok place on June 14, 2000. The text is divided into three sections: I. The main issues, II. Chronodrugs, and III. Methods. The first section is dedica ted to the perspectives of chronobiology for the next decade, with opinions about the trends of future research being emitted and discussed. The secon d section deals mostly with drugs acting or potentially acting on the organ ism's timing systems. In the third section there are considerations about r elevant methodological issues concerning data analysis.