Translating Mechanisms of Orofacial Neurological Disorder

1. Behavioural Pharmacology of Orofacial Movement Disorder

Noriaki Koshikawa, Satoshi Fujita, Kazunori Adachi

2 Regulation of Orofacial Movement: Dopamine Receptor Mechanisms and Mutant Models

John L. Waddington, Gerard J. O’Sullivan and Katsunori Tomiyama

3 Regulation of Orofacial Movement: Amino Acid Mechanisms and Mutant Models

Katsunori Tomiyam, Colm M. P. O’Tuathaigh4 and John L. Waddington3

4 The Trigeminal Circuits Responsible for Chewing

Karl-Gunnar Westberg, and Arlette Kolta

5 Ultrastructural Basis for Craniofacial Sensory Processing in the Brainstem

Yong Chul Bae, Atsushi Yoshida

6 Mechanisms of Nociceptive Transduction and Transmission: A Mashinery for Pain Sensation and Tools for Selective Analgesia.

Alexander M. Binshtok

7 Peripheral and central mechanisms of orofacial Inflammatory pain

Barry J. Sessle

8 The Role of Trigeminal Interpolaris-Caudalis Transition Zone in Persistent Orofacial Pain

Ke Ren and Ronald Dubner

9 Physiological Mechanisms of Neuropathic Pain: The Orofacial Region

Koichi Iwata, Yoshiki Imamura, Kuniya Honda1, and Masamichi Shinoda

10 Neurobiology of Estrogen Status in Deep Craniofacial Pain

David A Bereiter and Keiichiro Okamoto

11 Macroscopic Connection of Rat Insular Cortex: Anatomical Bases Underlying Its Physiological Functions

Masayuki Kobayashi

12 The Balance between Excitation and Inhibition and Functional Sensory Processing in the Somatosensory Cortex

Zhi Zhang and Qian-Quan Sun