Neuroanatomy

✍ Scribed by Walle J. H. Nauta (auth.)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 628
• Series: Contemporary Neuroscientists
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

I received my first introduction to the brain sciences in 1936 and 1937, for me the second and third years of the 7-year medical school curriculum at the University of Leiden. During those years my interest in the subject was aroused in particular by the brilliant lectures of the physiologist G. C. Rademaker - a prominent former member of the Rudolf Magnus school - and the neurohistologist S. T. Bok, noted especially for his histometric studies of the cerebral cortex. Fascinated as I was by everything I learned about the brain from these outstanding teachers, toward the end of their courses I began to notice conspicuous gaps that separated neurophysiology from neuroanatomy. In fact, I could (or thought I could) detect a reasonable concordance between the two sciences only in case of some sensory and somatic-motor systems. For most other functions anatomical substrates seemed either poorly defined or, as in the case of the central viscero-endocrine system, hardly recognized at all. With all the arrogance of which a 20-year old student is capable I concluded that what the brain sciences needed was a new and more complete anatomy that emphasized in particular the continuity of, and convergences or interconnections between individual conduction systems. And I wistfully mused that perhaps at some time in the future I could make such an endeavour part of my own career.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Silver Impregnation of Degenerating Axon Terminals in the Central Nervous System: (1) Technic. (2) Chemical Notes....Pages 3-9
Selective Silver Impregnation of Degenerating Axons in the Central Nervous System....Pages 10-14
Silver Impregnation of Degenerating Axons in the Central Nervous System: A Modified Technic....Pages 15-17
A Critical Review of Studies on Axonal and Terminal Degeneration....Pages 18-36
Some Early Travails of Tracing Axonal Pathways in the Brain....Pages 37-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Hypothalamic Regulation of Sleep in Rats. An Experimental Study....Pages 57-88
Subcortical Mechanisms in Emotional Behavior: Affective Changes Following Septal Forebrain Lesions in the Albino Rat....Pages 89-96
The Central Visceromotor System: A General Survey....Pages 97-114
Front Matter....Pages 115-115
Hippocampal Projections and Related Neural Pathways to the Mid-Brain in the Cat....Pages 117-139
A Comparison of the Distribution of the Fornix System in the Rat, Guinea Pig, Cat, and Monkey....Pages 140-166
Ascending Axon Degeneration Following Anterolateral Cordotomy. An Experimental Study in the Monkey....Pages 167-201
Fibre Degeneration Following Lesions of the Amygdaloid Complex in the Monkey....Pages 202-219
Neural Associations of the Amygdaloid Complex in the Monkey....Pages 220-237
The Isodendritic Core of the Brain Stem....Pages 238-262
The Hypothalamic Distribution of the Stria Terminalis in the Rat....Pages 263-276
Afferent Connections of the Habenular Nuclei in the Rat. A Horseradish Peroxidase Study, with a Note on the Fiber-of-Passage Problem....Pages 277-299
Efferent Connections of the Habenular Nuclei in the Rat....Pages 300-328
Ramifications of the Limbic System....Pages 329-352
Cytoarchitecture, Fiber Connections, and Some Histochemical Aspects of the Interpeduncular Nucleus in the Rat....Pages 353-390
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Projections of the Lentiform Nucleus in the Monkey....Pages 393-431
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Efferent Connections and Nigral Afferents of the Nucleus Accumbens Septi in the Rat....Pages 432-448
Efferent Connections of the Substantia Nigra and Ventral Tegmental Area in the Rat....Pages 449-475
Ramifications of the Globus Pallidus in the Rat as Indicated by Patterns of Immunohistochemistry....Pages 476-491
Front Matter....Pages 493-493
The Amygdalostriatal Projection in the Rat—An Anatomical Study by Anterograde and Retrograde Tracing Methods....Pages 495-509
Front Matter....Pages 511-511
A Note on the Termination of Commissural Fibers in the Neocortex....Pages 513-519
A General Profile of the Vertebrate Brain, with Sidelights on the Ancestry of Cerebral Cortex....Pages 520-539
The Problem of the Frontal Lobe: A Reinterpretation....Pages 540-560
Columnar Distribution of Cortico-Cortical Fibers in the Frontal Association, Limbic, and Motor Cortex of the Developing Rhesus Monkey....Pages 561-581
An Intricately Patterned Prefronto-Caudate Projection in the Rhesus Monkey....Pages 582-597
Reciprocal Links of the Corpus striatum with the Cerebral Cortex and Limbic System: A Common Substrate for Movement and Thought?....Pages 598-618
Back Matter....Pages 619-621

✦ Subjects

Science, general