Synopses & Reviews
Cognitive function involves the participation of many different neurotransmitter systems in a variety of brain areas. The centerpiece of investigation regarding cognitive function has classically been the cholinergic system, but it has beome increasingly clear that other transmitter systems interact with cholinergic systems to provide the neural basis for cognitive function. This book brings together cutting edge research to determine how the transmitter interactions form the mechanistic bases for attention, learning and memory. This research on transmitter interactions not only provides a more accurate, though complex, picture of how the brain works to provide cognitive function, it also provides important new levels of understanding about the mechanisms of cognitive dysfunction and novel avenues for therapeutic treatment. The researchers who contributed to this volume both reviewed the latest findings but also point to the directions of advancement of the field of neurotransmitter interactions and cognitive function.
Table of Contents
Rationale for studying transmitter interactions to understand the neural bases of cognitive function / Edward D. Levin -- Neurotransmitters and cognition / Mohammad R. Zarrindast -- Interactions between CRF and acetylcholine in the modulation of cognitive behaviour / Geoff Warnock, Jos Prickaerts and Thomas Steckler -- Forebrain dopaminergic-cholinergic interactions, attentional effort, psychostimulant addiction and schizophrenia / Martin Sarter ... [et al.] -- Intraseptal cholinergic infusions alter memory in the rat / James J. Chrobak, Helen R. Sabolek and Jamie G. Bunce -- Modulation of visual perception and action by forebrain structures and their interactions in amphibians / Jorg-Peter Ewert and Wolfgang W. Schwippert -- Neuromodulators of LTP and NCAMs in the amygdala and hippocampus in response to stress / Adi Guerman and Gal Richter-Levin -- Central histaminergic system interactions and cognition / Patrizio Blandina and Maria Beatrice Passani -- Cholinergic, histaminergic, and noradrenergic regulation of LTP stability and induction threshold / Hans C. Dringenberg and Min-Ching Kuo -- Nicotinic-antipsychotic drug interactions and cognitive function / Edward D. Levin and Amir H. Rezvani -- Function and dysfunction of monoamine interactions in children and adolescents with AD/HD / Robert D. Oades -- Prepulse inhibition mechanisms and cotnitive processes / Jose Larrauri and Nestor Schmajuk.