The Emotional Motor System

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780444819628
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science
  • Publication date: 8/1/1996
  • Series: Progress in Brain Research Ser.
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 627

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1 The emotional motor system 3
2 The somatic motor system 9
3 Some principles of the spinal organization of the sympathetic preganglionic outflow 29
4 Spinal cord reflex organization of sympathetic systems 43
5 Vagal efferent projections: viscerotopy, neurochemistry and effects of vagotomy 79
6 Spinal interneurons and preganglionic neurons in sacral autonomic reflex pathways 97
7 The neuronal control of micturition and its relation to the emotional motor system 113
8 Role of medulla oblongata in generation of sympathetic and vagal outflows 127
9 Rostral brain regions contributing to respiratory control 145
10 The ventro-medial medullary projections to spinal motoneurons: ultrastructure, transmitters and functional aspects 159
11 Serotonin, norepinephrine and associated neuropeptides: effects on somatic motoneuron excitability 183
12 The paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus and the functional neuroanatomy of visceromotor responses to stress 201
13 An ascending general homeostatic afferent pathway originating in lamina I 225
14 Involvement of the spino-parabrachio -amygdaloid and -hypothalamic pathways in the autonomic and affective emotional aspects of pain 243
15 Somatosensory and visceral input to the hypothalamus and limbic system 257
16 Physiological functions of pontomedullary raphe and medial reticular neurons 269
17 Columnar organization in the midbrain periaqueductal gray and the integration of emotional expression 285
18 Midbrain and medullary regulation of defensive cardiovascular functions 301
19 Midbrain and medullary regulation of respiration and vocalization 315
20 A concept for the final common pathway of vocalization and lordosis behavior in the cat 327
21 Meeting the constraints upon behavioral expression through neural and genomic interactive mechanisms 343
22 Olfaction and brainstem circuits of reproductive behavior in the rat 355
23 Role of the locus coeruleus in emotional activation 379
24 Functional anatomy of nociceptive neurones in rat superior colliculus 403
25 Arousal and locomotion: from schizophrenia to narcolepsy 417
26 Emotional networks and motor control: a fearful view 437
27 The neurobiology of the central nucleus of the amygdala in relation to neuroendocrine and autonomic outflow 447
28 Theories of basal forebrain organization and the "emotional motor system" 461
29 The nucleus accumbens: gateway for limbic structures to reach the motor system? 485
30 The ascending basal forebrain cholinergic system 513
31 Networks related to the orbital and medial prefrontal cortex; a substrate for emotional behavior? 523
32 Role of the cerebral cortex and striatum in emotional motor response 537
33 The greater limbic system, the emotional motor system and the brain 551
34 Hemispheric specialization for emotions, affective aspects of language and communication and the cognitive control of display behaviors in humans 583
35 Clinical observations on the emotional motor system 595
36 Behavioural complications of limbic epilepsy: implications for an understanding of the emotional motor system in man 605
37 Mapping cerebral sites for emotion and emotional expression with direct cortical electrical stimulation and seizure discharges 617
Subject Index 623
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