Title: Parkinson-specific motor and mental disorders : role of the pallidum : pathophysiological, biochemical, and therapeutic aspects /
Authors: Hassler, R. G. 1914-; Christ, J. F.
Publisher: Raven Press,
Year: 1984
Subjects: Movement Disorders etiology; Mental Disorders etiology; Parkinson Disease; Globus Pallidus physiopathology; Parkinson's disease Congresses; Parkinson's disease Complications Congresses.; Mental illness Congresses.; Globus pallidus Diseases Congresses.
Contents: Role of the pallidum and its transmitters in the therapy of Parkinsonian rigidity and akinesia -- Organization of primate internal pallidum as revealed by fluorescent retrograde tracing of its efferent projections -- Types of synapses in the pallidum and their differential degeneration following lesions of pallidal afferents in squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) -- Changes in reaction time after pallidal or nigral lesion -- Functional role of pallidum revealed by its electrical stimulation and coagulation in unanesthetized squirrel monkeys -- Circling behavior depending on striopallidal and vestibular functions -- Tegmentonigral projection in the cat: electron microscopic observations -- Serotonin in pallidal neuronal circuits: an immunocytochemical study in monkeys -- Nigrostriatal nervous pathways in the brain of the cat: an autoradiographic study -- GABA in the striatonigral and striatopallidal systems as moderator and mediator of striatal functions -- Immunocytochemical demonstration of the GABA-ergic neurons in rat globus pallidus and nucleus entopeduncularis and their GABA-ergic innervation -- Effect of cortex ablation on amino acid neurotransmitters in the pallidum of baboons -- Neuronal plasticity in the red nucleus and the ventrolateral thalamus of the adult cat: a biochemical approach -- Neostriatal participation in prosencephalic systems: evidence from deoxyglucose autoradiography -- Intrinsic cholinergic excitation in the rat striatum: pre- and postsynaptic receptors -- Cholinergic and dopaminergic mechanisms in Parkinson's disease after long-term L-dopa administration -- State of DA/ACh balance after chronic treatment with haloperidal and with THIP in rats