Note: Front Cover -- Progress in Brain Research: Sleep Mechanisms -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Integral aspects of sleep -- Chapter 1. Sleep as a phenomenon of the integral organism -- Chapter 2. The anatomical substrate of sleep -- Chapter 3. Paradoxical sleep - A study of its nature and mechanisms -- Chapter 4. Cortical and subcortical auditory evoked potentials during wakefulness and sleep in the cat -- Chapter 5. Some aspects of the electro-ontogenesis of sleep patterns -- Part II: Microelectrical and molecular aspects of sleep -- Chapter 6. Relation of cell size to effects of sleep in pyramidal tract neurons -- Chapter 7. Rhythmic enzyme changes in neurons and glia during sleep and wakefulness -- Chapter 8. Central neuro-humoral transmission in sleep and wakefulness -- Chapter 9. Humoral regulation of sleep and wakefulness by hypnogenic and activating dialysable factors -- Part III: Clinical aspects of sleep -- Chapter 10. Sleep and sleep disturbances in the electroencephalogram -- Chapter 11. Neurophysiological studies of abnormal night sleep and the Pickwickian syndrome -- Chapter 12. Some psychophysiological features of human sleep -- Chapter 13. Objective correlates of the refreshing effects of sleep -- Chapter 14. The effects of certain drugs on the sleep cycle in man -- Chapter 15. Amplitudes and evoked responses in the EEG in humans during sleep and anesthesia -- Part IV: Therapeutic aspects of sleep -- Chapter 16. Pharmacology of hypnotic agents -- Chapter 17. Neuropharmacological aspects of the action of hypnogenic substances on the central nervous system -- Chapter 18. Effects of benzodiazepines on spontaneous EEG and arousal responses of cats -- Part V: Summary statements -- Chapter 19. Summary statement -- Chapter 18. Summary and conchsion from the internal medical aspect -- Author Index. , Subject Index.

Note: Cover -- Copyright -- List of contributors -- Contents -- Chapter 1. On the early development of the isocortex in fetal sheep -- Chapter 2. On the prenatal development of function and structure in the somesthetic cortex of the sheep -- Chapter 3. An ontogenetic study of evoked somesthetic cortical responses in the sheep -- Chapter 4. Electron microscopy of neuronal and glial differentiation in the developing brain of the chick -- Chapter 5. Developmental patterns in the central nervous systems of birds -- I. Electrical activity in the cerebral hemisphere, optic lobe and cerebellum -- II. Some biochemical parameters of embryonic and post-embryonic maturation -- III. Somatic motility during the embryonic period and its relation to behavior after hatching -- IV. Cellular and molecular bases of functional activity -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Note: Cover -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Site of action of tubocurarine reaching the brain via the cerebral ventricles -- Chapter 2. Amygdaloid projection field -- Chapter 3. The activity of neurons in the amygdala of the cat following afferent stimulation -- Chapter 4. The anatomical basis of the patterns of autonomic and behavioural response effected via the amygdala -- Chapter 5. Some cell and fibre peculiarities of uncal hippocampus -- Chapter 6. Neuronal and dendritic patterns in the uncinate area of the human hippocampus -- Chapter 7. Vergleichend-anatomische Untersuchungen am Uncus bei Insectivoren und Primaten -- Chapter 8. Ultrastructural studies on the hippocampal region -- Chapter 9. On the connections of the olfactory bulb and the anterior olfactory nucleus in some mammals -- Chapter 10. Stria terminalis and related structures -- Chapter 11. The development of the anterior olfactory nucleus of human fetuses -- Chapter 12. Certain afferent cortical connections of the rhinencephalon -- Chapter 13. The rhinencephalon of ungulates: Gross morphology -- Chapter 14. Die Kapillardichte im Rhinencephalon verschiedener Wirbeltiere und des Menschen -- Chapter 15. General discussion on the terminology of the rhinencephalon -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Note: Cover -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. The excitatory responses of spinal neurones -- Chapter 2. Maintained firing of motoneurones during transmembrane stimulation -- Chapter 3. The delayed depolarization in cat and rat motoneurones -- Chapter 4. The properties of reticulo-spinal neurons -- Chapter 5. Presynaptic inhibition in the spinal cord -- Chapter 6. Presynaptic control of impulses at the first central synapse in the cutaneous pathway -- Chapter 7. The pharmacology of presynaptic inhibition -- Chapter 8. Ascending spinal hindlimb pathways in the cat -- Chapter 9. Differential course and organization of uncrossed and crossed long ascending spinal tracts -- Chapter 10. Three ascending tracts activated from Group I afferents in forelimb nerves of the cat -- Chapter 11. Supraspinal control of transmission in reflex paths to motoneurones and primary afferents -- Chapter 12. The pyramidal projection to motoneurones of some muscle groups of the Baboon's forelimb -- Chapter 13. Afferent connections to reticulo-spinal neurons -- Chapter 14. Investigations on respiratory motoneurones of the thoracic spinal cord -- Chapter 15. Reflexes to toe muscles in the cat's hindlimb -- Chapter 16. Effects of spinal cord asphyxiation -- Author index -- Subject index.

Note: Cover -- Copyright Page -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Neurobiology and psychiatry -- Chapter 2. Development of the experimental psychiatry program at the Thudichum Psychiatric Research Laboratory -- Chapter 3. Research approaches to problems in mental illness: Brain neurohumor-enzyme systems and behavior -- Chapter 4. Metabolism of biogenic amines and psychotropic drug effects in schizophrenic patients -- Chapter 5. Limited usefulness of EEG as a diagnostic aid in psychiatric cases receiving tranquilizing drug therapy -- Chapter 6. Behavioral changes of dogs following injection of neurotropic drugs into the arachnoid space overlying the cerebral cortex -- Chapter 7. Antiparkinson drugs and neuroleptics -- Chapter 8. Free amino acids and related compounds in brain and other tissues: Effects of convulsant drugs -- Chapter 9. The excretion of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid in mental patients -- Chapter 10 Some motor and electrical signs of drug action -- Chapter 11 Aspects of amino acid metabolism in phenylketonuria and other amino acidopathies -- Chapter 12. Energy flow in brain -- Chapter 13. Direct action of atropine on the cerebral cortex of the rabbit -- Chapter 14. Chicken brain amines: Normal levels and effect of reserpine and monoamine oxidase inhibitors -- Chapter 15. Spinal input to the midbrain reticular formation: Pharmacological investigation -- Chapter 16 Bacterial neurotoxins -- Chapter 17. Variations in water ingestion: The response to barbiturates -- Chapter 18. The cerebral circulation: Some hemodynamic aspects -- Chapter 19. Multi-channel telemetry systems -- Chapter 20. Electrical activity of the dog's brain: Telemetry and direct wire recording -- Bibliography of Harold E. Himwich -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Note: Cover -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. A Tribute to Norbert Wiener -- Chapter 2. The Problem of Organismic Reliability -- Chapter 3. Zur Theorie Der Lateralen Nervösen Inhibition im Limulus Komplex-Auge -- Chapter 4. Über Nichtlineare Analogschaltungen Zur Simulierung Biologischer Adaptationsvorgänge -- Chapter 5. Some Problems in Artificial Intelligence -- Chapter 6. On Cybernetics, Information Processing and Thinking -- Chapter 7. Information and Psychic Activity -- Chapter 8. The Kybernetics of Cyclothymia -- Chapter 9. Possibilités d'une Prothèse Sensorielle Acoustiqtie Par Stimulation Tactile -- Chapter 10. Überraschungswert Und Auffälligkeit -- Chapter 11. Taxis, Kinesis and Decussation -- Chapter 12. Universal Embedding Spaces for Automata -- Chapter 13. Fields and Waves in Excitable Cellular Structures -- Chapter 14. Pattern Recognition and Self-Organisation using Wiener's Canonical Forms -- Chapter 15. Solution of Elementary Logical Problems by Animals on the Basis of Extrapolation -- Chapter 16. Applications of Information Theory and Decision Theory to Human Perception and Reaction -- Chapter 17. A Mind's Eye View of the Brain -- Chapter 18. Mathematical Models for Verbal Learning -- Chapter 19. Probability-Statistical Model of the Brain Organisation -- Chapter 20. An Outline of the Development of a Neuron Model -- Chapter 21. A Model of Learning Mechanisms in the Brain -- Chapter 22. Perspectives in Neurocybernetics -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Note: Cover -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Neuroendocrine communication (neurohormonal, neurohumoral, and intermediate) -- Chapter 3. Basic electrophysiological mechanisms in neuroendocrinology -- CH4Chapter 4. The isolated neurohypophysis, a model for studies on neuroendocrine release mechanisms -- Chapter 5. Pharmacological aspects of neuroendocrine integration -- Chapter 6. Neurophysin -- Chapter 7. Hormonal regulation of rat brain development II. Biochemical changes induced by B-estradiol -- Chapter 8. Some questions on the nature and function of cranial and caudal neurosecretory systems in non-mammalian vertebrates -- Chapter 9. Hypothalamic mechanisms controlling pituitary function -- Chapter 10. The validity of current concepts of hypothalamo-neurohypophyseal neurosecretion -- Chapter 11. Hypothalamic input to supraoptic neurons -- Chapter 12. Hypothalamic inputs: methods, and five examples -- Chapter 13. Control of ovulation by the anterior pituitary gland -- Chapter 14. An investigation of cerebral protein synthesis in various states of neuroendocrine activity -- Chapter 15. The hypothalanio-neurohypophysial system and reproduction -- Chapter 16. Neuroendocrine adaptation -- Chapter 17. Ependyma of the third ventricle in relation to pituitary function -- Chapter 18. Neuro-neuronal and neuro-glial contacts in the epithelium of the saccus vasculosus of Perca fluviatilis (Teleostei): a fine-structural-cytochemical study -- Chapter 19. Central nervous and pituitary control of aldosterone secretion in the rat -- Chapter 20. A cybernetic approach to the hypothalamo-pituitary/adrenal system -- Chapter 21. The pituitary-thyroid response to low environmental temperature -- Chapter 22. Hormonal regulation of rat brain development III. Effect of B-estradiol on electrical activity and behaviour. , Chapter 23. The genital tract and the control of gonadotrophin secretion -- General discussion -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Note: Cover -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Brain-computer relationships -- Chapter 2. Computers of the brain and brainmade computers -- Chapter 3. On-line computation in behavioral neurophysiology -- Chapter 4. Computing devices of the second and third generations -- Chapter 5. The quantitative analysis of EEG data -- Chapter 6. The use of correlation analysis in processing neuroelectric data -- Chapter 7. The dynamic response of a photoreceptor -- Chapter 8. Quantitative data in neuroanatomy -- Chapter 9. Simultaneous measurement of quantitative data in neuroanatomy -- Chapter 10. Applications of computer simulation to the study of neurochemical behavior -- Chapter 11. A primer for writing medical data base for the clinical decision support system -- Chapter 12. General principles of simulation techniques -- Examples of the Application of Computer Programs to Neurophysiological Projects -- Chapter 13. Computer programming for parameter analysis of the electroencephalogram -- Chapter 14. Estimation of the parameters of a truncated gamma distribution in the case of neuronal spike data -- Chapter 15. A computer program for the determination of cerebral blood flow using the Kr-85 or Xe-133 intra-arterial injection method -- Chapter 16. Quantitative computer analysis on intracellularly recorded action potentials -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Note: Cover -- Copyright -- List of Contributors -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction to neurocybernetics -- Chapter 2. Nerve-model experiments on fluctuation in excitability -- Chapter 3. The engineering approach to the problem of biological integration -- Chapter 4. The neuron as a synchronous unit -- Chapter 5. Finite automata and the nervous system -- Chapter 6. Interpretation of the mechanism of conditioned reflexes inhibiting the activity of a functioning organ -- Chapter 7. Information processes of the brain -- Chapter 8. Information and the brain -- Chapter 9. Informationspsychologie und Nachrichtentechnik -- Chapter 10. Klassen und Eigenschaften von Lernmatrizen -- Chapter 11 .Sensory homeostasis -- Chapter 12. Information Sensorielle et Information conceptuelle dans l'activité bio-electrique du cerveau -- Chapter 13. Modèle cybernétique d'une mémoire active à capacité d'accueil illimitée -- Chapter 14. Preliminary notes on a functional scheme of human thought -- Chapter 15. Histology, histonomy, histologic -- Chapter 16. A discussion of the cybernetics of learning behaviour -- Chapter 17. L'obstacle de non-linéarité en neurologie -- Chapter 18. Adaptive machines in psychiatry -- Chapter 19. The essential instability of systems with threshold, and some possible applications to psychiatry -- Chapter 20. Mathematical theory of the effects of cell structure and of diffusion processes on the homeostasis and kinetics of the endocrine system with special reference to some periodic psychoses -- Chapter 21. Irrelevance of a 'nervous system' -- Epilogue -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Progress in Brain Research: Structure and Function of the Epiphysis Cerebri -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: Development, light microscopic anatomy and cytology, innervation and vascularization -- Chapter 1. Survey of the development and comparative morphology of the pineal organ -- Chapter 2. Histological structure and cytology of the pineal complex in fishes, amphibians and reptiles -- Chapter 3. Histological structure and cytology of the pineal organ in birds and mammals -- Chapter 4. Survey of the innervation of the epiphysis cerebri and the accessory pineal organs of vertebrates -- Chapter 5. Histologische und histochemische Untersuchungen an der Epiphyse von Haien -- Chapter 6. On the ontogeny of the pineal and parapineal organs in teleost fishes -- Chapter 7. Die Gefässversorgung der Epiphyse und Paraphyse bei Reptilien -- Chapter 8. The histologic structure of the human pineal body -- Chapter 9. Modifications histologiques de l'épiphyse humaine pendant l'enfance, l'âge adulte et le vieilissement -- Part II: Electron microscopical structure -- Chapter 10. Vergleichende elektronenmikroskopische Studien am Pinealorgan -- Chapter 11. Elektronenmikroskopische Untersuchungen am Pinealorgan der Regenbogenforelle (Salmo irideus) -- Chapter 12. Ultrastructure and development of amphibian pineal organs -- Chapter 13. Further light and electron microscopy of the pineal eye, with a note on thermoregulatory aspects -- Chapter 14. Licht- und elektronenmikroskopische Beobachtungen über die Struktur der Epiphysis cerebri des Kaninchens -- Chapter 15. Weitere Untersuchungen zur Feinstruktur der Epiphysis cerebri normaler und vorbehandelter Ratten -- Chapter 16. The epiphyseal cell: an electron-microscopic study of its intercellular relationships and intracellular morphology in the pineal body of the albino rat. , Part III: Biochemistry and cytochemistry -- Chapter 17. Ultrastructure and pharmacological studies of nerve endings in the pineal organ -- Chapter 18. Localization of neuronal and parenchymal monoamines under normal and experimental conditions in the mammalian pineal gland -- Chapter 19. Lipids in the pineal body of the rat -- Chapter 20. Observations on the rat pineal in tissue culture -- Chapter 21. Activités enzymatiques histochimiquement décelables dans la glande pinéale, chez quelques artiodactyles -- Part IV: Physiology, pharmacology and endocrinology -- Chapter 22. Physiology of the pineal body -- Chapter 23. Pineal regulation of body blanching in amphibian larvae -- Chapter 24. Analysis of antagonisms between pineal melatonin and other agents which act on the amphibian melanophore -- Chapter 25. The formation, metabolism, and physiologic effects of melatonin in mammals -- Chapter 26. Uptake of 131 I-labeled triiodothyronine in the pineal body as compared with the cerebral grey and other tissues of the rat -- Chapter 27. Alterations of the pineal lipid content in the rat under hormonal influences -- Chapter 28. Metabolic and morphologic studies on the rat pineal organ during puberty -- Chapter 29. Contribution à l'étude du mécanisme de l'antagonisme épiphyso-hypophysaire -- Chapter 30. Influence de la glande pinéale sur la sphère génitale -- Chapter 31. The pineal gland and the control of electrolyte balance and of gonadotropic secretion: Functional and morphological observations -- Chapter 32. Etude de la sécrétion des corticostéroïdes et de I'hormone adrénocorticotrope hypophysaire chez le rat épiphysectomisé -- Chapter 33. Contribution à l'étude du comportement corrélatif du complexe épithalamo-èpiphysaire et de la zone glomérulaire des glandes surrénales sous l'influence de l'obscurité. , Chapter 34. Participation of the epithalamo-epiphyseal system in the regulation of water and electrolytes metabolism -- Chapter 35. The effect of pinealectomy and of lesions in the subcommissural body on the rate of aldosterone secretion by rat adrenal glands in vitro -- Chapter 36. Experimental evidence for pineal participation in homeostasis of brain composition -- Chapter 37. Zur pathologischen Anatomie tierischer Epiphysen -- Chapter 38. General discussion -- Author Index -- Subject Index.