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CONTENTS BEHAVIOURAL NEUROBIOLOGY OF LEARNING IN TERRESTRIAL SNAILS P. BALABAN, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Butlerova 5A, Moscow 117865, Russia THE ATP-SENSITIVE K+ CHANNEL 21 M. TAKANO and A. NOMA, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY OF CHOLINESTERASES 31 J. MASSOULIE,* L. PEZZEMENTI,+¢ S. BON,* E. KREJCI* and F.-M. VALLETTES,§ *Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, CNRS URA 295, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 46, rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris, France, {Department of Biology, Birmingham Southern College, Arkadelphia Road, Birmingham, Alabama 35254, U.S.A., and §Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MOTONEURONES AND MUSCLES: THEIR ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOTOR UNIT 93 R. NAVARRETE* and G. VRBOVA, Department of Anatomy and Development Biology, Centre for Neuroscience, University College London, Gower Street, London WCIE 6BT, U.K., and *Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, University of London, Fulham Palace Road, London W6 8RF, U.K. PHYSIOLOGICAL ROLES FOR ADENOSINE AND ATP IN SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION IN THE SPINAL DORSAL HORN 125 M. W. SALTER,* Y. DE KONINCK,? and J. L. HENRY?,§ *Division of Neuroscience, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, MSG 1X8, Department of *Physiology, and §Research in Anesthesia and Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3G 1Y6 EXTRINSIC AND INTRINSIC PROPERTIES UNDERLYING OSCILLATION AND SYNCHRONY IN LIMBIC CORTEX 157 B. H. BLAND and L. V. COLOM, Department of Psychology, Behavioural Neuroscience Research Group, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta TZN 1N4, Canada CENTRAL NEUROANATOMICAL ORGANISATION OF THE RAT VISUOMOTOR SYSTEM 209 J. D. COOPER and O. T. PHILLIPSON, Department of Anatomy, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, U.K. PLASTICITY OF THE DENDRITIC SPINE 281 C. H. HORNER, Department of Anatomy, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland iv CONTENTS PREOPTIC AND HYPOTHALAMIC NEURONS AND THE INITIATION OF 323 LOCOMOTION IN THE ANESTHETIZED RAT H. M. SINNAMON, Neuroscience and Behavior Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06457, U.S.A. AUDITION AND THE AUDITORY PATHWAY OF A VOCAL NEW WORLD PRIMATE, THE COMMON MARMOSET 345 L. AITKIN and V. PARK, Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia EEG AND EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS IN NORMAL AGING 369 R. E. DUSTMAN,*,+ D. E. SHEARER* and R. Y. EMMERSON,*,+ *Neuropsychology Research, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT 84148, U.S.A., ‘Department of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, U.S.A., and {Department of Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, U.S.A. INVESTIGATIONS ON THE PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY (PAG) OF THE RABBIT: WITH CONSIDERATION OF EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES AND FUNCTIONAL ROLES OF THE PAG 403 B. J. DENNIS and S. T. MELLER, Department of Physiology, the University of Adelaide, GPO Box 498, SA 5001, Australia VISUAL—VESTIBULAR INTERACTION IN THE CONTROL OF HEAD AND EYE MOVEMENT: THE ROLE OF VISUAL FEEDBACK AND PREDICTIVE MECHANISMS 435 G. R. Barnes, MRC Human Movement and Balance Unit, Institute of Neurology, 23 Queen Square, London WCIN 3BG, U.K. THE TOAD, UGLY AND VENOMOUS, WEARS YET A PRECIOUS JEWEL IN HIS SKIN 473 L. H. LAZARUS and M. ATTILA, Peptide Neurochemistry Section, Laboratory of Integrative Biology, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, U.S.A. THE KINETIC PROPERTIES OF NEURONAL NICOTINIC RECEPTORS: GENETIC BASIS OF FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY 509 R. L. PAPKE, Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, the Salk Institute, Post Office Box 85800, San Diego, CA 92138, U.S.A. THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF NARCOLEPSY-CATAPLEXY 533 M. S. ALDRICH, Department of Neurology, Sleep Disorders Center, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A. IN VITRO STUDIES OF VISUAL CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND PLASTICITY 543 K. TOYAMA, Y. KOMATSU, N. YAMAMOTO and T. KUROTANI, Department of Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kawaramachi Hirokohji, Kamigyo, Kyoto 602, Japan CONTENTS SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ASPECTS OF SPINAL CORD AND BRAINSTEM ACTIVATION IN THE FORMALIN PAIN MODEL 565 C. A. PORRO* and M. CAVAZZUTI,?* *Instituto di Fisiologia Umana, Universita di Modena, Via Campi 287, I-41100 Modena, Italy, and *Clinica Neurologica, Universita di Modena, Via del Pozzo 71, I-41100 Modena, Italy THE LOCALIZATION OF CLASSICAL TRANSMITTERS AND NEUROPEPTIDES WITHIN NEURONS IN LAMINAE I-III OF THE MAMMALIAN SPINAL DORSAL HORN 609 A. J. TODD and R. C. SPIKE, Department of Anatomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, U.K. NEUROTRANSMITTERS OF THE SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS: ROLE IN THE REGULATION OF CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS 647 V. REGHUNANDANAN, R. REGHUNANDANAN and P. I. SINGH, Department of Physiology, Medical College, Rohtak, P/N 124 001, Haryana, India THE GRASSHOPPER, DROSOPHILA AND NEURONAL HOMOLOGY (ADVANTAGES OF THE INSECT NERVOUS SYSTEM FOR THE NEUROSCIENTIST) 657 G. S. BOYAN? and E. E. BALL,+ +Zoologisches Institut, Universitat Basel, Rheinsprung 9, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland, and Molecular Evolution and Systematics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, P.O. Box 475, Canberra City, ACT 2601, Australia THE NEUROTROPHIC ACTIVITY OF FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS 683 M. SENSENBRENNER, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Ontogénique, Centre de Neurochimie du CNRS, 5, rue Blaise Pascal, 67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France THIXOTROPY IN SKELETAL MUSCLE AND IN MUSCLE SPINDLES: A REVIEW 705 U. PROSKE,7 D. L. MORGAN* and J. E. GREGORY, ?* *Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia, and *Department of Physiology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia PEPTIDES IN THE LIMBIC SYSTEM: NEUROCHEMICAL CODES FOR Co- ORDINATED ADAPTIVE RESPONSES TO BEHAVIOURAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DEMAND 723 J. HERBERT, Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge and MRC Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DY, U.K.