Main description:

Updated and revised, the second edition of Handbook of Brain Microcircuits covers the functional organization of 50 brain regions. This now-classic text uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the integration of structure, function, electrophysiology, pharmacology, brain imaging, and behavior. Through uniquely concise and authoritative chapters by leaders in their fields, the Handbook of Brain Microcircuits synthesizes many of the new
principles of microcircuit organization that are defining a new era in understanding the brain connectome, integrating the major neuronal pathways and essential microcircuits with brain function.

New to the Second Edition:
* Insights into new regions of the brain through canonical microcircuit diagrams for each region
* Latest methodology in optogenetics, neurotransmitter uncaging, computational models of neurons and microcircuits, serial ultrastructure reconstructions, cellular and regional imaging
* Extrapolated data from new genetic tools and understandings applied to microcircuits in the mouse and Drosophila
* Common principles across vertebrate and invertebrate microcircuit systems, one of the key goals of modern neuroscience

Contents:

Contributors List
Introduction

Section 1. Neocortex
1. Neocortical Microcircuits.
Javier DeFelipe and Bernardo Rudy
2. Canonical Cortical Circuits.
Rodney J. Douglas and Kevan A.C. Martin
3. Microcircuitry of the Neocortex.
Srikanth Ramaswamy, Eilif Muller, Michael Reimann, and Henry Markram
4. The Cortical Microcircuit as a Recurrent Neural Network.
Rafael Yuste
5. Barrel Cortex.
Karel Svoboda and Jianing Yu
6. Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Motor Cortical Circuit (MCC).
Hugo Merchanta and Apostolos P. Georgopoulos
7. Prefrontal Cortex.
Xiao-Jing Wang

Section 2. Thalamus
8. Circuitry of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus.
S. Murray Sherman
9. Thalamus.
David A. McCormick

Section 3. Circadian System
10. The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus.
Gabriella Lundkvist and Gene Block

Section 4. Basal Ganglia
11. Microcircuits of the Striatum.
Natalie M. Doig and J. Paul Bolam
12. Templates for Neural Dynamics in the Striatum: Striosomes and Matrisomes.
Ann M.Graybiel
13. Subthalamo-Pallidal Circuit.
Charles J. Wilson

Section 5. Limbic System and Memory
14. Mesolimbic Dopamine and the Circuitry of Reward.
A. J. Robison and Eric J. Nestler
15. The Cholinergic Multicompartmental Basal Forebrain Microcircuit.
Laszlo Zaborsky and Peter Gombkoto
16. Amygdala Microcircuits.
Luke R Johnson and Joseph E LeDoux
17. Hippocampus - Intrinsic Organization.
Peter Somogyi and Thomas Klausberger
18. Hippocampus: Network Physiology.
Gyoergy Buzsaki and Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz
19. Entorhinal Cortex.
Edvard I. Moser, Menno P. Witter, and May-Britt Moser
20. The Neuronal Circuit for Simple Forms of Learning in Aplysia.
Robert D. Hawkins, Craig H. Bailey, and Eric R. Kandel

Section 6. Visual System
21. Retina: Microcircuits for Daylight, Twilight, and Starlight Vision.
Jonathan B. Demb and Joshua H. Singer
22. Understanding Retinal Microcircuitry: Then to Now.
Frank S. Werblin and John E. Dowling
23. Fly Optic Lamina as a Guide to Neural Circuit Design.
Simon B. Laughlin
24. The Insect-Crustacean Visual System: Correspondence with Vertebrates and with Olfaction.
Nicholas Strausfeld.

Section 7. Olfactory System
25. Olfactory Bulb.
Gordon M. Shepherd, Michele Migliore, and Francesco Cavarretta
26. Olfactory Cortex.
Donald A. Wilson and Edi Barkai
27. Antennal Lobe Manduca.
Hong Lei, Lynne A. Oland, Jeffery A. Riffell, Aaron Beyerlein, and John G. Hildebrand
28. Antennal Lobe of the Honeybee.
Juergen Rybak and Randolf Menzel
29. Mushroom Body of the Honeybee.
Juergen Rybak and Randolf Menzel
30. Drosophila.
Juergen Rybak and Bill Hansson
31. C. Elegans.
Cornelia Bargmann

Section 8. Taste System
32. Taste Coding and Feedforward/Feedback Signalling in Taste Buds.
Stephen D. Roper and Nirupa Chaudhari
33. Microcircuitry of the Rostral Nucleus of the Solitary Tract.
Joseph B. Travers and Susan P. Travers

Section 9. Auditory System
34. Cochlear Microcircuits.
P. A. Fuchs, J.S. Wu, P. Vyas and S.P. Zachary
35. Cochlear Nucleus.
Eric D. Young and Donata Oertel
36. Nucleus Laminaris.
Jason T. Sanchez, Yan Wang, Yong Lu, R. Michael Burger, Armin Seidi, and Edwin W. Rubel

Section 10. Cerebellum
37. Cerebellar Cortex.
Masao Ito
38. Olivocerebellar System.
Rodolfo R. Llinas

Section 11. Motor Systems
39. The Superior Colliculus.
Tadashi Isa, Masatoshi Kasai, and Richard Veale
40. Circuitry of the Lamprey Optic Tectum.
Andreas A. Kardamakis, Juan Perez Fernandez, and Sten Grillner
41. Respiratory Central Pattern Generator: Microcircuit Generation of the Rhythms
and Patterns of Breathing.
Kaiwen Kam and Jack L. Feldman
42. The Mammalian Brainstem Chewing Circuitry.
Arlette Kolta and James P. Lund
43. The Crustacean Stomatogastric Nervous System.
Eve Marder
44. The Mauthner cell microcircuits: sensory integration, decision-making and motor functions.
Donald S. Faber and Henri Korn
45. Spinal Circuit for Escape in Goldfish and Zebrafish.
Joseph R. Fetcho
46. The Lamprey Postural Circuit.
Tatiana G. Deliagina, Pavel V. Zelenin, and Grigiri N. Orlovsky
47. The Lamprey Locomotor Central Pattern Generator.
Sten Grillner, Elham Jalalvand, and Peter Wallen
48. Modularity and modulation of locomotor circuits in adult vertebrates.
Abdeljabbar El Manira
49. Tadpole Swimming Network.
Keith T. Sillar and Wenchang Li
50. Neuronal Circuits that Generate Swimming Movements in Leeches.
Wolfgang Otto Friesen
51. The Tritonia Swim Central Pattern Generator.
Paul S. Katz
52. The Swimming Circuit in the Pteropod Mollusk Clione Limacine.
Yuri I. Arshavsky, Tatiana G. Deliagina, and Grigori N. Orlovsky
53. The Heartbeat Neural Control System of the Leech.
Ronald L. Calabrese

Index