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Edited by
E.C. Azmitia, Departments of Biology and Psychiatry, Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA
J. DeFelipe, Instituto Cajal (CSIC), E-28001 Madrid, Spain
E.G. Jones, Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
P. Rakic, Department of Neurobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
C.E. Ribak, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, College of Medicine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Included in series
Progress in Brain Research, 136
Description
Cajal is the Father of Neuroscience and his personal view of the Neuron has dominated the field for over 100 years. No single person
has been able to challenge his global perspective of the neuron gained by Cajal's work in neuroanatomy, development, physiology, evolution
and medicine. However, over 30 neuroscientists from around the world have accepted the challenge of writing a review article on "Changing
Views of Cajal's Neuron". Many of these experts admitted they could only add to Cajal's theory and they carefully provided their new
findings based on modern methods of microscopy, molecular biology or neurobiology. Other experts recognized specific areas where Cajal's
ideas of neurons needed to be altered and refined. Key knowledge necessary to understand plasticity or development is now available
and permits a changed view. A few of the authors directly challenged some of the most widely accepted and cherished theories of Cajal:
the neuron as an isolated unit, function of dendrites, the direction of electrical conductivity and the importance of plasticity in the
adult brain. In total, the collection of articles provides a fascinating perspective to the enormous force of Cajal's genius in the
21st Century view of the neuron.
Contents
List of contributors.
Dedication.
Introduction.
1. Neuronal changes during development and evolution.
1. Overview: neuronal
changes during development and evolution (F. Valverde).
2. The chemotactic hypothesis of Cajal a century behind (C. Sotelo).
3. Neuronal
changes during evolution. Forebrain evolution in amniotes: an evolutionary development perspective (Z. Molnár, A.B. Butler).
4.
Life-long stability of neurons: a century of research on neurogenesis, neuronal death and neuron quantification in adult CNS (K. Turlejski,
R. Djavadian).
5. Interkinetic nuclear movement in the vertebrate neuroepithelium: encounters with an old acquaintance (J.M. Frade).
6. The origin and migration of cortical neurons (J.G. Parnavelas, P. Alifragis, B. Nadarajah).
2. Inside the neuron: cytoskeleton,
dendrites and synapses.
7. Overview: inside the neuron: cytoskeleton, dendrites and synapses (E. Mugnaini).
8. Cajal's hypotheses
on neurobiones and neurotropic factor match properties of microtubules and S-100ß (E.C. Azmitia).
9. Changing views of Cajal's
neuron: the case of the dendritic spine (M. Segal).
10. Spine distribution in cortical pyramidal cells: a common organizational principle
across species (G.N. Elston, J. DeFelipe).
11. Modification of dendritic development (A. Feria-Velasco, A.R. Del Angel, I. Gonzalez-Burgos).
12. Electron microscopic immunolabeling of transporters and receptors identifies transmitter-specific functional sites envisioned in
Cajal's neuron (V.M. Pickel, M. Garzón, E. Mengual).
13. Synaptic and extrasynaptic GABAA receptor and gephyrin clusters
(S.B. Christie et al.).
3. Character and function of specific neurons.
14. Overview: character and function of specific
neurons. A Cajalian perspective (P. Pasik, T. Pasik).
15. Neoreticularism and neuronal polarization (M.V.L. Bennett).
16. Changes in
the views of neuronal connectivity and communication after Cajal - examples from the hippocampus (T.F. Freund).
17. Cortical interneurons:
from Cajal to 2001 (J. DeFelipe).
18. Retinal neurons: cell types and coupled networks (D.I. Vaney).
19. Cajal and glial cells (L.M.
Garcia-Segura).
4. Mechanisms of neuronal birth, growth and death.
20. Overview: mechanisms of neuronal birth, growth and death
(P. Whitaker-Azmitia).
21. Evolving concepts of cortical radial and areal specification (P. Rakic).
22. The surface of the developing
cerebral cortex: still special cells one century later (A. Fairén, J. Morante-Oria, C. Frassoni).
23. Vulnerability of
monoaminergic neurons in the brainstem of the zitter rat in oxidative stress (S. Ueda et al.).
24. CNS Schwann-like glia and
functional restoration of damaged spinal cord (M. Nieto-Sampedro).
25. Neuroplasticity in the damaged dentate gyrus of the epileptic
brain (C.E. Ribak, K. Dashtipour).
5. Complex connections and organization.
26. Overview: complex connections and organization
(R.M. Murillo).
27. Thalamic organization and function after Cajal (E.G. Jones).
28. The modular organization of brain systems. Basal
forebrain: the last frontier (L. Zaborszky).
29. Anatomical origins of the classical receptive field and modulatory surround field of
single neurons in Macaque visual cortical area VI (A. Angelucci, J.B. Levitt, J.S. Lund).
30. Static and dynamic views of visual cortical
organization (V.A. Casagrande, X. Xu, G. Sáry).
31. Central control of information transmission through the intraspinal aborizations
of sensory fibers examined 100 years after Ramón y Cajal (P. Rudomin).
6. Functional circuits, mental diseases and brain aging.
32. Overview: functional circuits, mental diseases and brain aging (L. Angelucci).
33. The "Psychic Cell" of Ramón y Cajal (P.S.
Goldman-Rakic).
34. Cajal's prophetic functional considerations on respiratory reflexes. New questions about old answers (S.W. Schwarzacher).
35. Serotonin brain circuits involved in major depression and suicide (V. Arango, M.D. Underwood, J.J. Mann).
36. Structural changes
in the normally aging cerebral cortex of primates (A. Peters).
37. Selective vulnerability of corticocortical and hippocampal circuits
in aging and Alzheimer's disease (J.H. Morrison, P.R. Hof).
Subject index.
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Hardbound, 526 pages, publication date: MAY-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-508157
ISBN-10: 0-444-508155
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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