The Basal Ganglia V / Edition 1

by Chihiro Ohye, Minoru Kimura, John S. McKenzie

Overview

This volume, The Basal Ganglia V, is derived from proceedings of the fifth Triennial Meeting of the International Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS). The Meeting was held from 23-26 May, 1995, at Nemuno-Sato, in the Mie Prefecture of central Japan, not far from the traditional birth place of the country. As at previous Meetings, our aim was to hear and discuss new ideas and data on the Basal Ganglia. About one hundred papers were presented, on platform or as posters. We had valuable talks, stimulating discussions, and agreeable social contacts. Although just before this Meeting, there were several unusual accidents in Japan, a big earthquake in the Kobe area, not far from the Meeting place, and toxic gas terrorism in Tokyo, some hundred participants came from Europe, the United States, and elsewhere. All through the Meeting days, we were together in a beautiful environment, surrounded by fresh green vegetation, flowers and blue sea, as has been traditional for IBAGS meetings. We spent happy and pleasant sunny days there, with superb accommodation and cuisine. Also following the traditional policy of our Society, this volume has been edited to include as many papers as possible, without any selection. New ideas and data may sometimes be controversial and still immature, but we accepted all and put them together in this volume. We hope that from these fascinating papers, further new principles of basal ganglia action might emerge in the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306453861
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/31/1997
Series:	Advances in Behavioral Biology , #47
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	522
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Section I. Functional Connectivity of the Basal Ganglia.- Section II. Characteristics of Basal Ganglia Neurons, Transmitters, and Modulators.- Section III. Neurophysiology of the Basal Ganglia and Related Nuclei.- Section IV. Behavioral and Physiological Studies of the Basal Ganglia Disorders.- Section V. Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology of the Basal Ganglia.- Section VI. Characterization of the Basal Ganglia Disorders.- Section VII. Animal Models of the Basal Ganglia Disorders.

Editorial Reviews

Sixty-one proceedings papers from the May 1995 meeting updating research and presenting new ideas and data on the basal ganglia. The contributors addressed topics in the functional connectivity of the basal ganglia, the characteristics of its neurons, transmitters, and modulators, the neurophysiology of the basal ganglia and related nuclei, behavioral and physiological studies of its disorders, its neurochemistry and neuropharmacology, the characterization of basal ganglia disorders, and animal models of those disorders. Includes illustrations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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