Brain Cholinergic Systems

PART 1: NEW VISTAS ON THE ASCENDING CHOLINERGIC ACTIVATION: M. Steriade & G. Buzsaki: Parallel activation of thalamic and cortical neurons by brainstem and basal forebrain cholinergic systems; PART 2: MORPHOLOGICAL ORGANIZATION OF CHOLINERGIC SYSTEMS; B.H. Wainer & M.-M. Mesulam: Ascending cholinergic pathways in the rat brain; V.E. Koliatsos, L.E. Martin, & D.L. Price: Efferent organization of the mammalian basal forebrain; D. Fitzpatrick & D. Raczkowski: The morphology of cholinergic projections from the brainstem reticular formation of the lateral geniculate nucleus and other thalamic nuclei in the cat; F. Heft, J. Hartikka, B. Knusel, M.O. LaPlume, & D.C. Mash: Nerve growth factor and cholinergic neurons of the mammalian brain; PART 3: PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CHOLINERGIC SYSTEMS: C.S. Leonard & R.R. Llinas: Electrophysiology of mammalian pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental neurons in vitro: implications for the control of REM sleep; R.W. Green & R.W. McCarley: Cholinergic transmission in the brainstem: implications for behavioural state control; D.A. McCormick: Cellular mechanisms of cholinergic control of necortical and thalamic neuronal excitability; Y. Lamour, M.C. Senut, M.H. Bassant, & P. Dutar: Functional properties of septo-hippocampal neurons; R.T. Richardson & M.R. DeLong: Responses of primate nucleus basalis neurons to water rewards and related stimuli; R.W. Dykes: Acetylcholine and neuronal plasticity in somatosensory cortex; W. Singer: The role of acetycholine in use-dependent plasticity of the visual cortex; D. Pare & M. Steriade: Control of the mammilothalmic axis by brainstem cholinergic laterodorsal tegmental afferents: possible involvement in mnemonic processes; PART 4: DISORDERS WITH COGNITIVE DECLINE: G. Pepeu, P.L. Di Patre, & F. Casamenti: Spontaneous and drug-stimulated recovery of cortical cholinergic function after lesion of the nucleus basalis; V. Bigl, T. Arendt, & D. Biesold: The nucleus basalis of meynert during ageing and in dementing neuropsychiatric disorders; N.J. Woolf & L.L. Butcher: Disdifferentiation of structurally plastic neurons initiates the pathologic cascade of Alzheimer's disease: toward a unifying hypothesis.