Bücher der Reihe Frontiers in Neuroscience

Presents various behavioral approaches in animal subjects. This book features material on the relevance of transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer's disease. It discusses behavioral methods for assessing the cognitive impairment associated with major psychotic disorders.

Provides an overview of the status of knowledge and research on olfaction. This book includes content from genetics to behavior and from nematodes to humans. It also contains chapters about the discoveries on odor coding from the olfactory epithelium to cortical centers and about neurogenesis in the olfactory epithelium and in the olfactory bulb.

Astrocytes play diverse roles in central nervous system (CNS) function and dysfunction, and the connections that the astrocyte makes with other cells of the brain are essential for a variety of important neural tasks. This volume emphasizes cellular connections and surveys the most current findings on astrocyte activity. The book identifies major astrocyte biomarkers and describes how they define the different connectivity domains. It examines the role of these connections and explains how their function can be manipulated and how dysfunction of the connectivity leads to aberrant brain performance. The final section explores the alterations of glia that have been observed in specific diseases of the brain.

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging and neuroscience methods, this volume details current understanding in the neural bases for these phenomena as studied across species, stages of development, and clinical statuses.Topics discussed include anatomy, neurophysiological bases and how multisensory stimuli can dramatically change the encoding processes for sensory information, combinatorial principles and modeling, development and plasticity, clinical manifestations, how perception and action are affected by altered sensory experience, and attention and spatial representations.

With excerpts from international specialists in the field of neurobiology, this book presents state of the art research on the neurobiological aspects of depression. It discusses opioid and endocannabinoid systems and depression and explores other sources for depression provided by research in biochemistry, molecular biology, and genomics. Topics covered include genetic factors of depression; monoaminergic pathways and depression; serotonergic pathways and depression; melantonergic system, chronobiological rhythms, and depression; the significance of tachykinin mechanisms in depression; and the melatonergic system, chronobiological rhythms, and depression. This book serves as a reference for researchers in neuroscience and related fields, as well as graduate students.

Bridges the gap between cellular and molecular studies of drug actions and behavioral approaches to questions in drug abuse research. This book covers procedures, methods, and equipment used in experiments, that, in many cases, combine multiple technical approaches.

Brings the contrasting views of the behavior-biology divide into focus to promote a concerted view of timing and time perception. This book describes the basic mathematical and psychological aspects of scalar timing theory and mode-control models of counting and timing. It also examines the roles of attention and memory in interval timing.

Offers a comprehensive description of the experimental tools available for investigating the neuronal properties that allow populations of spinal cord neurons to control muscles responsible for limb movements and posture control. This text demonstrates how spinal cord circuits operate under a variety conditions.

Describes molecular, electrophysiological, engineering, genetic, behavioral, psychophysical, and imaging techniques that have been adapted to investigate the basic neuronal mechanisms underlying chemoreception. This book investigates various aspects of taste and olfaction.

Exploring the role of the chemical senses in mediating intraspecific communication, this volume examines the structure, anatomy, electrophysiology, and molecular biology of pheromones. It discusses how chemical signals work on different mammalian and non-mammalian species and includes chapters on insects, Drosophila, honey bees, amphibians, mice, cats, and cattle. It also explores the controversial topic of human pheromones. An essential reference for students and researchers in the field of pheromones, this is also an ideal resource for those working on behavioral phenotyping of animal models and persons interested in the biology/ecology of the different species.

Featuring contributions from leading experts, this book presents an excellent overview of the available and emerging approaches used to investigate the neurobiological mechanisms of drug addiction. Discussion includes the behavioral strategies and characteristics of addiction as well as mechanistic approaches to understanding the underlying neurobiology. The authors provide information from mathematical models, model organisms, animal models, and experiments conducted in humans. They deliver a comprehensive introduction to the methodologies of the field for students and beginning researchers and an essential reference source for established investigators.