Gordon M. Shepherd received his BS at Iowa State College in 1955, MD at Harvard in 1959, and DPhil at Oxford in 1962. After postdoctoral training at NIH, MIT and the Karolinska Institute he joined the faculty at Yale Medical School, where he is Professor of Neuroscience.Sten Grillner studied at the medical faculty in Gothenburg, Sweden, and received his MD, PhD in neurophysiology in 1969. He has been a Professor and Director of the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology at the Karolinska Institute since 1987.

Provides excellent reference for those seeking to further their understanding of the principles underlying neural function, as well as an effective summary for those seeking to investigate particular neural networks... This is an excellent resource that I expect I will continue to reference throughout my career.

• Contributors ListIntroduction Section 1. Neocortex1. Neocortical Microcircuits. Javier DeFelipe and Bernardo Rudy2. Canonical Cortical Circuits. Rodney J. Douglas and Kevan A.C. Martin3. Microcircuitry of the Neocortex. Srikanth Ramaswamy, Eilif Muller, Michael Reimann, and Henry Markram4. The Cortical Microcircuit as a Recurrent Neural Network. Rafael Yuste5. Barrel Cortex. Karel Svoboda and Jianing Yu6. Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Motor Cortical Circuit (MCC). Hugo Merchanta and Apostolos P. Georgopoulos7. Prefrontal Cortex. Xiao-Jing Wang Section 2. Thalamus8. Circuitry of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus. S. Murray Sherman9. Thalamus. David A. McCormick Section 3. Circadian System10. The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus. Gabriella Lundkvist and Gene Block Section 4. Basal Ganglia11. Microcircuits of the Striatum. Natalie M. Doig and J. Paul Bolam 12. Templates for Neural Dynamics in the Striatum: Striosomes and Matrisomes. Ann M.Graybiel13. Subthalamo-Pallidal Circuit. Charles J. Wilson Section 5. Limbic System and Memory14. Mesolimbic Dopamine and the Circuitry of Reward. A. J. Robison and Eric J. Nestler15. The Cholinergic Multicompartmental Basal Forebrain Microcircuit. Laszlo Zaborsky and Peter Gombkoto16. Amygdala Microcircuits. Luke R Johnson and Joseph E LeDoux17. Hippocampus - Intrinsic Organization. Peter Somogyi and Thomas Klausberger18. Hippocampus: Network Physiology. György Buzsáki and Antonio Fernández-Ruiz19. Entorhinal Cortex. Edvard I. Moser, Menno P. Witter, and May-Britt Moser20. The Neuronal Circuit for Simple Forms of Learning in Aplysia. Robert D. Hawkins, Craig H. Bailey, and Eric R. Kandel Section 6. Visual System21. Retina: Microcircuits for Daylight, Twilight, and Starlight Vision. Jonathan B. Demb and Joshua H. Singer22. Understanding Retinal Microcircuitry: Then to Now.Frank S. Werblin and John E. Dowling23. Fly Optic Lamina as a Guide to Neural Circuit Design. Simon B. Laughlin24. The Insect-Crustacean Visual System: Correspondence with Vertebrates and with Olfaction. Nicholas Strausfeld. Section 7. Olfactory System25. Olfactory Bulb. Gordon M. Shepherd, Michele Migliore, and Francesco Cavarretta26. Olfactory Cortex. Donald A. Wilson and Edi Barkai27. Antennal Lobe Manduca. Hong Lei, Lynne A. Oland, Jeffery A. Riffell, Aaron Beyerlein, and John G. Hildebrand28. Antennal Lobe of the Honeybee. Juergen Rybak and Randolf Menzel29. Mushroom Body of the Honeybee. Juergen Rybak and Randolf Menzel30. Drosophila. Juergen Rybak and Bill Hansson31. C. Elegans. Cornelia Bargmann Section 8. Taste System32. Taste Coding and Feedforward/Feedback Signalling in Taste Buds. Stephen D. Roper and Nirupa Chaudhari33. Microcircuitry of the Rostral Nucleus of the Solitary Tract. Joseph B. Travers and Susan P. Travers Section 9. Auditory System34. Cochlear Microcircuits. P. A. Fuchs, J.S. Wu, P. Vyas and S.P. Zachary35. Cochlear Nucleus. Eric D. Young and Donata Oertel36. Nucleus Laminaris. Jason T. Sanchez, Yan Wang, Yong Lu, R. Michael Burger, Armin Seidi, and Edwin W. Rubel Section 10. Cerebellum37. Cerebellar Cortex. Masao Ito38. Olivocerebellar System. Rodolfo R. Llinás Section 11. Motor Systems39. The Superior Colliculus. Tadashi Isa, Masatoshi Kasai, and Richard Veale40. Circuitry of the Lamprey Optic Tectum. Andreas A. Kardamakis, Juan Pérez Fernández, and Sten Grillner 41. Respiratory Central Pattern Generator: Microcircuit Generation of the Rhythmsand Patterns of Breathing. Kaiwen Kam and Jack L. Feldman42. The Mammalian Brainstem Chewing Circuitry. Arlette Kolta and James P. Lund43. The Crustacean Stomatogastric Nervous System. Eve Marder44. The Mauthner cell microcircuits: sensory integration, decision-making and motor functions. Donald S. Faber and Henri Korn45. Spinal Circuit for Escape in Goldfish and Zebrafish. Joseph R. Fetcho46. The Lamprey Postural Circuit. Tatiana G. Deliagina, Pavel V. Zelenin, and Grigiri N. Orlovsky47. The Lamprey Locomotor Central Pattern Generator.Sten Grillner, Elham Jalalvand, and Peter Wallén 48. Modularity and modulation of locomotor circuits in adult vertebrates. Abdeljabbar El Manira49. Tadpole Swimming Network. Keith T. Sillar and Wenchang Li50. Neuronal Circuits that Generate Swimming Movements in Leeches. Wolfgang Otto Friesen51. The Tritonia Swim Central Pattern Generator. Paul S. Katz52. The Swimming Circuit in the Pteropod Mollusk Clione Limacine. Yuri I. Arshavsky, Tatiana G. Deliagina, and Grigori N. Orlovsky53. The Heartbeat Neural Control System of the Leech. Ronald L. Calabrese Index

Gordon M. Shepherd received his BS at Iowa State College in 1955, MD at Harvard in 1959, and DPhil at Oxford in 1962. After postdoctoral training at NIH, MIT and the Karolinska Institute he joined the faculty at Yale Medical School, where he is Professor of Neuroscience.Sten Grillner studied at the medical faculty in Gothenburg, Sweden, and received his MD, PhD in neurophysiology in 1969. He has been a Professor and Director of the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology at the Karolinska Institute since 1987.

Provides excellent reference for those seeking to further their understanding of the principles underlying neural function, as well as an effective summary for those seeking to investigate particular neural networks... This is an excellent resource that I expect I will continue to reference throughout my career.

• Contributors ListIntroduction Section 1. Neocortex1. Neocortical Microcircuits. Javier DeFelipe and Bernardo Rudy2. Canonical Cortical Circuits. Rodney J. Douglas and Kevan A.C. Martin3. Microcircuitry of the Neocortex. Srikanth Ramaswamy, Eilif Muller, Michael Reimann, and Henry Markram4. The Cortical Microcircuit as a Recurrent Neural Network. Rafael Yuste5. Barrel Cortex. Karel Svoboda and Jianing Yu6. Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Motor Cortical Circuit (MCC). Hugo Merchanta and Apostolos P. Georgopoulos7. Prefrontal Cortex. Xiao-Jing Wang Section 2. Thalamus8. Circuitry of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus. S. Murray Sherman9. Thalamus. David A. McCormick Section 3. Circadian System10. The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus. Gabriella Lundkvist and Gene Block Section 4. Basal Ganglia11. Microcircuits of the Striatum. Natalie M. Doig and J. Paul Bolam 12. Templates for Neural Dynamics in the Striatum: Striosomes and Matrisomes. Ann M.Graybiel13. Subthalamo-Pallidal Circuit. Charles J. Wilson Section 5. Limbic System and Memory14. Mesolimbic Dopamine and the Circuitry of Reward. A. J. Robison and Eric J. Nestler15. The Cholinergic Multicompartmental Basal Forebrain Microcircuit. Laszlo Zaborsky and Peter Gombkoto16. Amygdala Microcircuits. Luke R Johnson and Joseph E LeDoux17. Hippocampus - Intrinsic Organization. Peter Somogyi and Thomas Klausberger18. Hippocampus: Network Physiology. György Buzsáki and Antonio Fernández-Ruiz19. Entorhinal Cortex. Edvard I. Moser, Menno P. Witter, and May-Britt Moser20. The Neuronal Circuit for Simple Forms of Learning in Aplysia. Robert D. Hawkins, Craig H. Bailey, and Eric R. Kandel Section 6. Visual System21. Retina: Microcircuits for Daylight, Twilight, and Starlight Vision. Jonathan B. Demb and Joshua H. Singer22. Understanding Retinal Microcircuitry: Then to Now.Frank S. Werblin and John E. Dowling23. Fly Optic Lamina as a Guide to Neural Circuit Design. Simon B. Laughlin24. The Insect-Crustacean Visual System: Correspondence with Vertebrates and with Olfaction. Nicholas Strausfeld. Section 7. Olfactory System25. Olfactory Bulb. Gordon M. Shepherd, Michele Migliore, and Francesco Cavarretta26. Olfactory Cortex. Donald A. Wilson and Edi Barkai27. Antennal Lobe Manduca. Hong Lei, Lynne A. Oland, Jeffery A. Riffell, Aaron Beyerlein, and John G. Hildebrand28. Antennal Lobe of the Honeybee. Juergen Rybak and Randolf Menzel29. Mushroom Body of the Honeybee. Juergen Rybak and Randolf Menzel30. Drosophila. Juergen Rybak and Bill Hansson31. C. Elegans. Cornelia Bargmann Section 8. Taste System32. Taste Coding and Feedforward/Feedback Signalling in Taste Buds. Stephen D. Roper and Nirupa Chaudhari33. Microcircuitry of the Rostral Nucleus of the Solitary Tract. Joseph B. Travers and Susan P. Travers Section 9. Auditory System34. Cochlear Microcircuits. P. A. Fuchs, J.S. Wu, P. Vyas and S.P. Zachary35. Cochlear Nucleus. Eric D. Young and Donata Oertel36. Nucleus Laminaris. Jason T. Sanchez, Yan Wang, Yong Lu, R. Michael Burger, Armin Seidi, and Edwin W. Rubel Section 10. Cerebellum37. Cerebellar Cortex. Masao Ito38. Olivocerebellar System. Rodolfo R. Llinás Section 11. Motor Systems39. The Superior Colliculus. Tadashi Isa, Masatoshi Kasai, and Richard Veale40. Circuitry of the Lamprey Optic Tectum. Andreas A. Kardamakis, Juan Pérez Fernández, and Sten Grillner 41. Respiratory Central Pattern Generator: Microcircuit Generation of the Rhythmsand Patterns of Breathing. Kaiwen Kam and Jack L. Feldman42. The Mammalian Brainstem Chewing Circuitry. Arlette Kolta and James P. Lund43. The Crustacean Stomatogastric Nervous System. Eve Marder44. The Mauthner cell microcircuits: sensory integration, decision-making and motor functions. Donald S. Faber and Henri Korn45. Spinal Circuit for Escape in Goldfish and Zebrafish. Joseph R. Fetcho46. The Lamprey Postural Circuit. Tatiana G. Deliagina, Pavel V. Zelenin, and Grigiri N. Orlovsky47. The Lamprey Locomotor Central Pattern Generator.Sten Grillner, Elham Jalalvand, and Peter Wallén 48. Modularity and modulation of locomotor circuits in adult vertebrates. Abdeljabbar El Manira49. Tadpole Swimming Network. Keith T. Sillar and Wenchang Li50. Neuronal Circuits that Generate Swimming Movements in Leeches. Wolfgang Otto Friesen51. The Tritonia Swim Central Pattern Generator. Paul S. Katz52. The Swimming Circuit in the Pteropod Mollusk Clione Limacine. Yuri I. Arshavsky, Tatiana G. Deliagina, and Grigori N. Orlovsky53. The Heartbeat Neural Control System of the Leech. Ronald L. Calabrese Index

Gordon M. Shepherd received his BS at Iowa State College in 1955, MD at Harvard in 1959, and DPhil at Oxford in 1962. After postdoctoral training at NIH, MIT and the Karolinska Institute he joined the faculty at Yale Medical School, where he is Professor of Neuroscience.Sten Grillner studied at the medical faculty in Gothenburg, Sweden, and received his MD, PhD in neurophysiology in 1969. He has been a Professor and Director of the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology at the Karolinska Institute since 1987.

Provides excellent reference for those seeking to further their understanding of the principles underlying neural function, as well as an effective summary for those seeking to investigate particular neural networks... This is an excellent resource that I expect I will continue to reference throughout my career.

• Contributors ListIntroduction Section 1. Neocortex1. Neocortical Microcircuits. Javier DeFelipe and Bernardo Rudy2. Canonical Cortical Circuits. Rodney J. Douglas and Kevan A.C. Martin3. Microcircuitry of the Neocortex. Srikanth Ramaswamy, Eilif Muller, Michael Reimann, and Henry Markram4. The Cortical Microcircuit as a Recurrent Neural Network. Rafael Yuste5. Barrel Cortex. Karel Svoboda and Jianing Yu6. Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Motor Cortical Circuit (MCC). Hugo Merchanta and Apostolos P. Georgopoulos7. Prefrontal Cortex. Xiao-Jing Wang Section 2. Thalamus8. Circuitry of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus. S. Murray Sherman9. Thalamus. David A. McCormick Section 3. Circadian System10. The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus. Gabriella Lundkvist and Gene Block Section 4. Basal Ganglia11. Microcircuits of the Striatum. Natalie M. Doig and J. Paul Bolam 12. Templates for Neural Dynamics in the Striatum: Striosomes and Matrisomes. Ann M.Graybiel13. Subthalamo-Pallidal Circuit. Charles J. Wilson Section 5. Limbic System and Memory14. Mesolimbic Dopamine and the Circuitry of Reward. A. J. Robison and Eric J. Nestler15. The Cholinergic Multicompartmental Basal Forebrain Microcircuit. Laszlo Zaborsky and Peter Gombkoto16. Amygdala Microcircuits. Luke R Johnson and Joseph E LeDoux17. Hippocampus - Intrinsic Organization. Peter Somogyi and Thomas Klausberger18. Hippocampus: Network Physiology. György Buzsáki and Antonio Fernández-Ruiz19. Entorhinal Cortex. Edvard I. Moser, Menno P. Witter, and May-Britt Moser20. The Neuronal Circuit for Simple Forms of Learning in Aplysia. Robert D. Hawkins, Craig H. Bailey, and Eric R. Kandel Section 6. Visual System21. Retina: Microcircuits for Daylight, Twilight, and Starlight Vision. Jonathan B. Demb and Joshua H. Singer22. Understanding Retinal Microcircuitry: Then to Now.Frank S. Werblin and John E. Dowling23. Fly Optic Lamina as a Guide to Neural Circuit Design. Simon B. Laughlin24. The Insect-Crustacean Visual System: Correspondence with Vertebrates and with Olfaction. Nicholas Strausfeld. Section 7. Olfactory System25. Olfactory Bulb. Gordon M. Shepherd, Michele Migliore, and Francesco Cavarretta26. Olfactory Cortex. Donald A. Wilson and Edi Barkai27. Antennal Lobe Manduca. Hong Lei, Lynne A. Oland, Jeffery A. Riffell, Aaron Beyerlein, and John G. Hildebrand28. Antennal Lobe of the Honeybee. Juergen Rybak and Randolf Menzel29. Mushroom Body of the Honeybee. Juergen Rybak and Randolf Menzel30. Drosophila. Juergen Rybak and Bill Hansson31. C. Elegans. Cornelia Bargmann Section 8. Taste System32. Taste Coding and Feedforward/Feedback Signalling in Taste Buds. Stephen D. Roper and Nirupa Chaudhari33. Microcircuitry of the Rostral Nucleus of the Solitary Tract. Joseph B. Travers and Susan P. Travers Section 9. Auditory System34. Cochlear Microcircuits. P. A. Fuchs, J.S. Wu, P. Vyas and S.P. Zachary35. Cochlear Nucleus. Eric D. Young and Donata Oertel36. Nucleus Laminaris. Jason T. Sanchez, Yan Wang, Yong Lu, R. Michael Burger, Armin Seidi, and Edwin W. Rubel Section 10. Cerebellum37. Cerebellar Cortex. Masao Ito38. Olivocerebellar System. Rodolfo R. Llinás Section 11. Motor Systems39. The Superior Colliculus. Tadashi Isa, Masatoshi Kasai, and Richard Veale40. Circuitry of the Lamprey Optic Tectum. Andreas A. Kardamakis, Juan Pérez Fernández, and Sten Grillner 41. Respiratory Central Pattern Generator: Microcircuit Generation of the Rhythmsand Patterns of Breathing. Kaiwen Kam and Jack L. Feldman42. The Mammalian Brainstem Chewing Circuitry. Arlette Kolta and James P. Lund43. The Crustacean Stomatogastric Nervous System. Eve Marder44. The Mauthner cell microcircuits: sensory integration, decision-making and motor functions. Donald S. Faber and Henri Korn45. Spinal Circuit for Escape in Goldfish and Zebrafish. Joseph R. Fetcho46. The Lamprey Postural Circuit. Tatiana G. Deliagina, Pavel V. Zelenin, and Grigiri N. Orlovsky47. The Lamprey Locomotor Central Pattern Generator.Sten Grillner, Elham Jalalvand, and Peter Wallén 48. Modularity and modulation of locomotor circuits in adult vertebrates. Abdeljabbar El Manira49. Tadpole Swimming Network. Keith T. Sillar and Wenchang Li50. Neuronal Circuits that Generate Swimming Movements in Leeches. Wolfgang Otto Friesen51. The Tritonia Swim Central Pattern Generator. Paul S. Katz52. The Swimming Circuit in the Pteropod Mollusk Clione Limacine. Yuri I. Arshavsky, Tatiana G. Deliagina, and Grigori N. Orlovsky53. The Heartbeat Neural Control System of the Leech. Ronald L. Calabrese Index