Innate and Acquired Drives -- The Conception that Whatever Humans Achieved Derives from the Unrestricted Capacity of Their Brain to Acquire Drives -- Enhancer Regulation: A Neurochemical Approach to the Innate and Acquired Drives -- Approaching Old Problems From A New Angle -- Theoretical Aspects of the Enhancer Regulation Approach -- Conclusion.The main message of this monograph is that the ap…
Parkinson’s Disease -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Parkinson’s Disease -- Positron Emission Tomography and Single-Photon Emission Tomography in the Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease -- Positron Emission Tomography in Parkinson’s Disease -- [123I]-Altropane SPECT -- Positron Emission Tomography and Embryonic Dopamine Cell Transplantation in Parkinsonâ…
Oscillations in the Basal Ganglia: The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected -- Participation of Striatal Neurons in Large-Scale Oscillatory Networks -- Do Local Field Potentials Reflect Synchronized Spiking Activity of Neuronal Populations in the Basal Ganglia? Studies in a Rodent Model of Parkinson’s Disease -- A Partial Spectra Method for Predicting Spike Correlations from Local Field Potentia…
Outline of the General Neurobiological Problem -- The Perikarya Which Support Axonal Regrowth are Hyperexcitable -- Axonal Regrowth is Compromised by Ephaptic Cross-Talk Between the Branches -- Biological Significance of Axonal Branching -- Role of Cytoskeleton Reorganization During Axonal Branching -- The Individual Guidance Cues Promoting Reinnervation of Original Targets are Still Unknown --…
Cochlear signal processing -- Brainstem signal processing -- Pitch -- Frequency modulation -- Streaming -- Amplitude modulation -- Responses to complex sounds -- Speech -- Comodulation masking release -- Binaural hearing -- Temporal coding -- Plasticity.The result of extensive collaboration among leaders of the worldwide auditory research community, Auditory Signal Processing: Physiology, Psych…
Learning and Memory -- Animal Models of Anxiety -- Genetic Alterations of the Murine Serotonergic Gene Pathway: The Neurodevelopmental Basis of Anxiety -- Mutagenesis and Knockout Models: Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenocortical System -- Mutagenesis and Knockout Models: NK1 and Substance P -- Genetic Epidemiology of Anxiety Disorders -- Interactions Between Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone and Ser…
The Contribution of Microscopy to the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease, Amyloid Plaques and A? Fibrillogenesis -- Transgenic Mouse Models for APP Processing and Alzheimer’s Disease: Early and Late Defects -- Oxidative stress in Alzheimer’s Disease: Implications for Prevention and Therapy -- ?-Secretase, APP and A? in Alzheimer’s Disease -- The Non-Amyloidogenic Pathway: Structure and Functi…
Basic Sciences -- The Developmental Regulation of Wake/Sleep System -- Basic Mechanisms of Circadian Rhythms and their Relation to the Sleep/Wake Cycle -- The Neuroendocrine Loop Model Revisited: Is It Valid or Even Relevant? -- Biological Rhythms in Neuroendocrinology -- Biological Clock Control of Glucose Metabolism -- Molecular Mechanisms of Melatonin Action: Targets in Sleep Regulation -- S…
Making a Neural Tube: Neural Induction and Neurulation -- Cell Proliferation in the Developing Mammalian Brain -- Anteroposterior and Dorsoventral Patterning -- Neural Crest and Cranial Ectodermal Placodes -- Neurogenesis -- The Oligodendrocyte -- Astrocyte Development -- Neuronal Migration in the Developing Brain -- Guidance of Axons and Dendrites -- Synaptogenesis -- Programmed Cell Death -- …
Views on the Human Breathing Behavior -- Different Profile in Ventilatory vs. Respiratory Sensation Responses to CO2 with Varying Po2 -- Amygdala and Emotional Breathing in Humans -- Immediate Effects of Bilateral Carotid Body Resection on Total Respiratory Resistance and Compliance in Humans -- Memories of Yoshiyuki Honda, MD, PhD -- Memories of Dr. Yoshiyuki Honda -- Mechanisms of Central and…