Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Chemical Signalling in the Basal Ganglia; Copyright Page; List of Contributors; Preface; Contents; Part I: The Sources of the Signals; Chapter 1. The cellular framework for chemical signalling in the nucleus accumbens; Chapter 2. Cholinergic neurons of the rat and primate striatum are morphologically different; Chapter 3. In vivo studies of the postnatal development of rat neostriatal neurons; Chapter 4. GABAergic circuits of the striatum
  • Chapter 5. Convergence of synaptic terminals from the striatum and the globus pallidus onto single neurones in the substantia nigra and the entopeduncular nucleusChapter 6. Striatal and subthalamic afferents to the primate pallidum: interactions between two opposite chemospecific neuronal systems; Chapter 7. The distribution of GABAA-benzodiazepine receptors in the basal ganglia in Huntington's disease and in the quinolinic acid-lesioned rat; Chapter 8. Chemical signalling in the globus pallidus in parkinsonism; Part II: The Genetic Control of Signalling
  • Chapter 9. Regulation of glutamic acid decarboxylase gene expression in efferent neurons of the basal gangliaChapter 10. Chemical signalling and striatal interneurones; Chapter 11. Dopamine receptors: structure and function; Chapter 12. Neuroleptics and striatal neuropeptide gene expression; Chapter 13. Neurochemically specialized projection neurons of the striatum respond differentially to psychomotor stimulants; Part III: Responses to Signals; Chapter 14. Functionally selective neurochemical afferents and efferents of the mesocorticolimbic and nigrostriatal dopamine system
  • Chapter 15. Reward-related activity in monkey striatum and substantia nigraChapter 16. The organization of somatosensory activity in dorsolateral striatum of the rat; Chapter 17. Neurotransmitter receptors and ionic conductances regulating the activity of neurones in substantia nigra pars compacta and ventral tegmental area; Chapter 18. The generation of natural firing patterns in neostriatal neurons; Chapter 19. Chemical modulation of synaptic transmission in the striatum; Chapter 20. D1 and D2 dopamine receptor modulation of sodium and potassium currents in rat neostriatal neurons
  • Chapter 21. The corticostriatal system on computer simulation: an intermediate mechanism for sequencing of actionsChapter 22. The thorny problem of what dopamine does in psychiatric disease; Subject Index