Description
Book SynopsisThis volume arose out of the symposium: The Basal Ganglia: Structure and Function, held at the beginning of September 1983 as a satellite of the 29th International Congress of Physiological Sciences.
Table of ContentsAnatomy of the System — Interconnections, Inputs And Outputs.- Interconnections Between the Corpus Striatum and Brain Stem Nuclei.- Thalamostriate Projections — an Overview.- The Primate Striato-Pallido-Nigral System: An Integrative System for Cortical Information.- The Termination of Striatonigral fibres on Nigrotectal Neurons in the Rat — A Preliminary Report.- Serotoninergic Innervation of the Monkey Basal Ganglia: An Immunocytochemical, Light and Electron Microscopy Study.- Fluorescent Double Labeling Studies of Thalamostriatal and Corticostriatal Neurons.- The Output Organization of the Pallidum and Substantia Nigra in Primate as Revealed by a Retrograde Double-Labeling Method.- Neural Mechanisms — Synaptic Actions, Transmitters and Receptors, Output Mechanisms.- Dopamine Decreases the Amplitude of Excitatory Post-Synaptic Potentials in Rat Striatal Neurones.- Presynaptic Actions and Dopamine in the Neostriatum.- Anatomy and Neurophysiology of the Subthalamic Efferent Neurons.- Neural Activity in Basal Ganglia Output Nuclei and Induced Hypermotility.- Tonic Nigral Control of Tecto Spinal/Tecto Diencephalic Branched Neurons: A Possible Implication of Basal Ganglia in Orienting Behavior.- Basal Ganglia Transmitters And Receptors.- The Regulation of Striatal Dopamine Receptors: Subsensitivity Induced by Hyperthyroidism or REM Sleep Deprivation.- Can Enzymes Released from the Nigro-Striatal Pathway Act as Neuromodulators?.- Functions of the Basal Ganglia in Posture, Movement and Behaviour.- Diseases of the Basal Ganglia.- Long Latency Reflexes in Patients with Basal Ganglia Disorders.- Motor Effects Produced by Disruption of Basal Ganglia Output to the Thalamus.- Unilateral Electrolytic and 6-OHDA Lesions of the Substantia Nigra in Baboons: Behavioural and Biochemical Data.- Postural and Behavioural Changes Related to Nigral Cell Loss in Monkeys.- Neurobiological Changes Induced by Neostriatal Kainic Acid Injection; An Electrophysiological and Morphological Approach to the Physiopathology of Huntington’s Chorea.- Dopamine Neurone Degeneration-like Deficits Produced by Intrahypothalamic Dopamine Injections.- Output Pathways Mediating Basal Ganglia Function.- Responses of Neurons in Different Regions of the Striatum of the Behaving Monkey.- Consequences of Disturbed GABA-Ergic Transmission in Substantia Nigra Pars Reticulata in Freely Moving Cats on their Motor Behaviour, and in Anaesthetized Cats on their Spinal Motor Elements.- Basal Ganglia and Switching Motor Programs.- Structure and Function of the Basal Ganglia: A Point of View.- Symposium Participants.
