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Connecting the auditory brain stem to sensory, motor, and limbic systems, the inferior colliculus is a critical midbrain station for auditory processing. Winer and Schreiner's The Inferior Colliculus, a critical, comprehensive reference, presents the current knowledge of the inferior colliculus from a variety of perspectives, including anatomical, physiological, developmental, neurochemical, biophysical, neuroethological and clinical vantage points. Written by leading researchers in the field, the book is an ideal introduction to the inferior colliculus and central auditory processing for clinicians, otolaryngologists, graduate and postgraduate research workers in the auditory and other sensory-motor systems.

In order to focus on principles, each chapter in this work is brief, organized around 1-3 wiring diagrams of the key circuits, with several pages of text that distil the functional significance of each microcircuit

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The Superior Colliculus: New Approaches for Studying Sensorimotor Integration discusses new experimental and theoretical approaches to investigating how the brain transforms sensory signals into the motor commands that are used to shift the direction of gaze. The material includes the potential models for sensorimotor integration in the primate bra

In review, the amount of information available on the morphological and func tional properties of the frog nervous system is very extensive indeed and in certain areas is the only available source of information in vertebrates. Further more, much of the now classical knowledge in neurobiology was originally ob tained and elaborated in depth in this vertebrate. To cite only a few examples, studies of nerve conduction, neuromuscular transmission, neuronal integration, sense organs, development, and locomotion have been developed with great detail in the frog and in conjunction provide the most complete holistic descrip tion of any nervous system. Added to the above considerations, the ease with which these animals may be maintained (both as adults and during development) and the advantage of their lower cost as compared with other vertebrate forms make the frog one of the most important laboratory animals in neurobiology. With these thoughts in mind, we decided to compile this volume. Our goal in doing so was to assemble as much as possible of the information available on frog neurobiology and to have the different topics covered by authorities in each of the fields represented. To keep the handbook restricted to one volume, we found it necessary to omit the large field of amphibian muscle neurobiology, which has already been summarized in various other publications.

This volume presents an overview of the functional anatomy of the central auditory system integrated with cell biology, synaptic physiology, and electrophysiology." Introduction to Mammalian Auditory Pathways Douglas L. Oliver and Nell B. Cant " Overview of Auditory Projection Pathways and Intrinsic Microcircuits Nell B. Cant and Douglas L. Oliver " Microcircuits of the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus Maria E. Rubio " Microcircuits of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus Laurence O. Trussell and Donata Oertel " Integration of Synaptic and Intrinsic Conductances Shapes Microcircuits in the Superior Olivary Complex Conny Kopp-Scheinpflug and Ian D. Forsythe " Neurons, Connections, and Microcircuits of the Inferior Colliculus Tetsufumi Ito and Manuel S. Malmierca " Sensing Sound Through Thalamocortical Afferent Architecture and Cortical Microcircuits Heather L. Read and Alex D. Reyes " Auditory Cortex Circuits Eike Budinger and Patrick Kanold " Circuits for Modulation of Auditory Function Brett R. Schofield and Laura Hurley Douglas S. Oliver is Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, UConn Health, University of Connecticut, Farmington Nell B. Cant is Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago Arthur N. Popper is Professor Emeritus and research Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park.