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CONTENTS MINERALOCORTICOID AND GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTORS IN THE BRAIN, IMPLICATIONS FOR ION PERMEABILITY AND TRANSMITTER SYSTEMS M. JOELS* and E. R. DE KLOET, *Institute for Neurobiology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and *Center for Bio-pharmaceutical Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands IONS AND ENERGY IN MAMMALIAN BRAIN 37 M. ERECINSKA* and I.A. SILVER,+ *Department of Pharmacology and of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A., and {Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. PROTON-INDUCED CURRENT IN NEURONAL CELLS 73 N. AKAIKE and S. UENO, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812, Japan MYELINATION AND MYELIN SHEATH REMODELLING IN NORMAL AND PATHOLOGICAL PNS NERVE FIBRES 85 C. HILDEBRAND, *C.M. BOWE} and I. N.R EMAHL,+ *Department of Cell Biology, University of Linképing, Linképing, Sweden, +Department of Neurology, University of California at Davis, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A., and {Department of Anatomy, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden THE PATHOGENESIS OF DEMYELINATING DISEASE 143 N. J. SCOLDING,* J. P. ZAJICEK, N. WOOD and D. A. 8. COMPSTON, University of Cambridge Neurology Unit, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, U.K. MODULATION OF ION CHANNELS BY ARACHIDONIC ACID 175 H. MEVES, I. Physiologisches Institut der Universitat des Saarlandes, D-66421 Homburg-Saar, Germany THE PERIPHERAL NERVE ALLOGRAFT: A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF REGENERATION AND NEUROIMMUNOLOGY 187 P. J. EVANS,* R. MIDHA# and S. E. MACKINNON, + *Division of Orthopaedics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, *Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and tDivision of Plastic Surgery, Washington University and Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A. TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF VERTEBRATE BLOOD-NERVE BARRIER: COMPARISON WITH BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER 235 K. C. WADHWANI and S. I. RAPOPORT, Laboratory of Neurosciences, NIA, Bldg 10, Rm 6C103 NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, U.S.A. ili iv CONTENTS FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE PARASYMPATHETIC NEURONS OF THE AVIAN CILIARY GANGLION: A CLASSIC MODEL SYSTEM FOR THE STUDY OF NEURONAL DIFFERENTIATION AND DEVELOPMENT 281 S. E. DRYER, Program in Neuroscience, Department of Biological Science B-221, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, U.S.A. THE MOTOR INNERVATION OF MAMMALIAN MUSCLE SPINDLES 323 R. W. BANKS, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, U.K. EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE ROLE OF SEROTONIN IN COGNITION 363 J. SIRVIO, P. RIEKKINEN, JR, P. JAKALA and P. RIEKKINEN, Department of Neurology, A.I. Virtanen Institute, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF ORIENTATION SPECIFICITY IN NEURONS OF THE VISUAL PATHWAYS 381 G. H. HENRY,* A. MICHALSKI,* B. M. WIMBORNE} and R. J. McCART,* *Centre for Visual Science, Division of Neuroscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, and ;Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, U.S.A. AMPHIBIAN SYMPATHETIC GANGLIA: AN OWNER’S AND OPERATOR’S MANUAL 439 P. A. SMITH, Department of Pharmacology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7 SECRETORY AND SYNAPTIC VESICLE MEMBRANE PROTEINS AND THEIR POSSIBLE ROLES IN REGULATED EXOCYTOSIS 511 C. K. DAMER and C. E. CREUTZ, Program in Neuroscience and Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, U.S.A. A VITAMIN AS NEUROMODULATOR: ASCORBATE RELEASE INTO THE EXTRACELLULAR FLUID OF THE BRAIN REGULATES DOPAMINERGIC AND GLUTAMATERGIC TRANSMISSION 537 G. V. REBEC and R. C. PIERCE, Program in Neural Science, Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405, U.S.A. RESPIRATORY MODULATION IN THE ACTIVITY OF SYMPATHETIC NEURONES 567 H.-J. HABLER, W. JANIG and M. MICHAELIS, Physiologisches Institut, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel, Olshausenstrasse 40, 24098 Kiel, Germany