Main description:

The aim of the International Meetings of the Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS) is to provide a unique environment for the open presentation and discussion of new and challenging information about the basal ganglia as it relates to health and disease, covering all areas of basic science and research. Specific topics of the proceedings of this Eighth International Triennial Meeting of the Basal Ganglia Society include behavior, circuitry, functional imaging, modelling, movement disorders, neuropathology, neurotransmitters, pharmacology, physiology, plasticity, treatments for basal ganglia disorders, ventral systems, health and disease, immunology and basal ganglia, and much more.

Contents:

Oscillations in the Basal Ganglia: The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected.- Participation of Striatal Neurons in Large-Scale Oscillatory Networks.- Do Local Field Potentials Reflect Synchronized Spiking Activity of Neuronal Populations in the Basal Ganglia? Studies in a Rodent Model of Parkinson's Disease.- A Partial Spectra Method for Predicting Spike Correlations from Local Field Potentials: Application to MPTP Induced Synchronization.- Propagation of Cortical Paroxysms in Basal Ganglia Circuits During Absence Seizures.- Limitations of the Isolated GP-STN Network.- Convergence and Plasticity of Inputs to Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons: The Generation of Synchronised Pauses.- Short and Long-Term Modulation of Synaptic Activity in Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons.- Striatal Acetylcholine Control of Reward-Related Dopamine Signalling.- Changes of Glutamatergic Control of Striatal Acetylcholine Release in Experimental Parkinsonism.- Peptidergic Regulation of Cholinergic Transmission in the Dorsal Striatum: Peptides and Acetylcholine in the Striatum.- Localization and Functions of Kainate Receptors in the Rat Globus Pallidus.- Oligomerization of Dopamine D1 and Glutamate NMDA Receptors: A New Mechanism Regulating Striatal Function.- Modulatory Role of NK1 Receptors in the Basal Ganglia. Studies in NK1-/- Mice.- Trace Amines Cause More than One Effect on Dopaminergic Neurons.- Regulation of Dopamine Release and Dopamine Cell Activity by Endogenous H2O2: Implications for Basal Ganglia Function.- Nociceptin/Orphanin FQ Modulates Neurotransmitter Release in the Substantia Nigra: Biochemical and Behavioural Outcome.- Motor Learning-Related Gene Regulation in the Striatum: Effects of Cocaine.- Opposing Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Amphetamine Sensitization on Operant Responding For a Food Reinforcer.- Anterograde Trophic Mechanisms Participate in Pattern Formation in the Striatum: A Role For BDNF in Glutamatergic Afferents.- Developmental Assembly of GABA Receptors in the Rat Substantia Nigra.- High Frequency Stimulation of the Subthalamic Nucleus: Electrophysiological and Neurochemical Aspects.- Downregulation of a Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor in Parkinsonian Basal Ganglia.- Pitx3 is Necessary for Survival of Midbrain Dopaminergic Neuron Subsets Relevant to Parkinson's Disease.- D1-Dopamine Receptor Supersensitivity in the Dopamine-Depleted Striatum Involves a Novel Activation of Erk1/2.- Do Systemically Administered Glutamate Antagonists Affect Subthalamic Nucleus Activity? Relevance to Pharmacotherapy of Parkinson's Disease.- Striatopallidal Changes in Early Parkinson's Disease: Partial Dopamine Depletions.- Dynamic Models of Basal Ganglia Function and Parkinson's Disease.- Striatal Grafts and Synaptic Plasticity.- Spontaneous Formation of Lewy Bodies in a Rodent.- Intralaminar Thalamic Nuclei are Main Regulators of Basal Ganglia Possible Involvement in the Pathophysiology of Parkinson's Disease.- Activated Microglia Persist in the Substantia Nigra of a Chronic MPTP Mouse Model of Parkinson's Disease.- Early Behavioral Phenotypes in Mouse Models of Huntington's and Parkinson's Diseases.- Synaptic Alterations in Genetic Mouse Models of Huntington's and Parkinson's Diseases: Is there a Common Thread?.- Changes in the Expression of Tonic and Phasic Neurochemical Markers of Activity in a Rat Model of L-DOPA Induced Dyskinesia.- Bilateral Somatosensory Responses of Pallidal Neurons in Humans Studied with Microrecording.- Alterations in Globus Pallidus Internus Firing Patterns are Associated with Different Movement Disorders.- Biochemical Markers of DBS-Induced Transition from "Off" to "On" State in Parkinsonian Patients.- Effect of Deep Brain Stimulation on Tremor.- Thalamic and Cortical Changes in Parkinsonian Disorders.- Neurogenesis in the Basal Ganglia in Huntington's Disease in the Human Brain and in an Animal Model.- The Ventral/Dorsal Divide: To Integrate or Separate.- Feedforward and Feedback Inhibition in the Neostriatum.- Dopaminergic Modulation of Cortical and Striatal Up States.- Integration of Cortical Activity by Striatal Medium Spiny Neurons.- Activation of NOS Interneurones in Striatum after Excitotoxic Lesions of Rat Globus Pallidus.- Electrical Synapses between Output Neurones of the Striatum and Between Neurones of the Substantia Nigra Pars Compacta.- Nitric Oxide Signaling Modulates the Responsiveness of Striatal.- Medium Spiny Neurons to Electrical Stimulation of the Substantia Nigra: Striatal Nitrergic Signaling.- Chandelier Neuron Cartridges in the Rat Prefrontal Cortex Contact Pyramidal Neurons Which Project to the Nucleus Accumbens.- The Pedunculopontine and Reinforcement.- The Pedunculopontine Nucleus: Towards a Functional Integration with the Basal Ganglia.- Glutamatergic and GABAergic Control of Pallidal Activity in Monkeys.- Combined Modeling and Extracellular Recording Studies of Up and Down Transitions of Neurons in Awake or Behaving Monkeys.- Sequential Motor Behavior and the Basal Ganglia: Evidence from a Serial Reaction Time Task in Monkeys.- GABAergic and Dopaminergic Modulation of Basal Ganglia Output in Primates.- The Basal Ganglia-Thalamocortical Circuit Originating in the Ventral Premotor Area (PMv) of the Macaque Monkey.- The Subthalamic Region of the Sheep.- Differential Localization of Vesicular Glutamate Transporters 1 and 2 in the Rat Striatum.- Local Connectivity Between Neurons of the Rat Globus Pallidus.- AUTHOR INDEX.- SUBJECT INDEX