This article alerts interested readers about neurobiology of lipids sessions of the 33rd Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting, 8-12 November, 2003, New Orleans, LA. The abstracts were retrieved from the SfN web based abstract system as a result of the search for the key words cholesterol, phospholipid, lipoprotein, apolipoprotein, fatty acid, lipid, lipid peroxidation in abstract title/key words, abstract text or session title. The reference to each abstract entry includes day/time, program number, presentation type, location, authors list, first author first affiliation, and the abstract title. Each abstract title provides link to abstract text at the scholarone.com web site. The presented list yielded editors' choice short list of twenty noteworthy presentations. The short listed abstracts were invited to publish proceedings and lay language articles at the Neurobiology of Lipids.