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Cerebellar Dentate Nucleus

Organization, Cytology and Transmitters

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  • © 1977

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  1. Victoria Chan-Palay

    1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXIII
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  2. The Cerebellar Dentate Nucleus

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Neuronal Population: Numbers, Sizes, and Shapes

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 25-41

  4. The Neurons of the Dentate Nucleus: A Golgi Study

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 42-85

  5. Fine Structure of the Large Neurons and Their Processes: Dendritic Thorns and Their Synapses

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 86-124

  6. The Small Neurons

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 125-146

  7. The Neuroglial Cells of the Dentate Nucleus

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 147-157

  8. The Dynamic Nature of Neuron Connections: Neuronal Plasticity and Spontaneous Degeneration in the Normal Cerebellum

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 158-167

  9. Unusual Specializations at Synapses with Comments on Functional Aspects

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 168-178

  10. Sources of Extracerebellar Afferent Inputs to the Cerebellar Nuclei

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 179-211

  11. Investigations of the Neuropil On the Analysis of Axon Terminals in the Dentate Nucleus

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 212-238

  12. The Corticonuclear Projection from Purkinje Cells to the Dentate Nucleus

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 239-274

  13. Afferent Axon Systems: Fine Structure of Collaterals of Climbing Fibers and Mossy Fibers Ending in the Dentate Nucleus

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 275-296

  14. Efferent Connections of the Dentate Nucleus

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 297-363

  15. Axons of Dentate Neurons; Projectional and Intrinsic: Concepts and Cytology

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 364-389

  16. The Indoleamine Afferent Axons to the Cerebellum

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 390-454

  17. The Catecholamine Afferents to the Cerebellum

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 455-463

  18. Coda: Cerebellar Dentate Integration of Sensory Influx and Volition for the Regulation of Motor Activity

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 464-477

  19. Methods

    • Victoria Chan-Palay
    Pages 478-517

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 518-550
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Recent physiologic investigations have shown that the deep cerebellar nuclei may play an important role in the initiation and monitoring of skilled move­ ments. Much of this physiologic work has been carried out in the absence of a secure foundation in neuroanatomical information. Although the main sources of the afferent fibers and the major terminations of the efferent fibers related to these nuclei have been known for many years, remarkably little information about the organization of the nuclei themselves has been collected. The kinds of nerve cells, their arrangement within the nuclei, the patterns of their dendritic arborizations, the distribution of incoming fibers among the neurons, the relationship between the outgoing nerve fibers and the nerve cells from which they originate - these and many other morphologic features were either unknown or only superficially explored. In fact, so little was known about the deep cerebellar nuclei when I began to work on this subject that the investigations reported here are virtually without antecedents, a refreshing change from the cerebellar cortex which has been repeatedly and exhaustively surveyed. My studies on the cerebellar nuclei began in the spring of 1972. They were initiated with the intent of applying the principles of analysis that had been developed for the cerebellar cortex to a different but related part of the brain.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Victoria Chan-Palay

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cerebellar Dentate Nucleus

  • Book Subtitle: Organization, Cytology and Transmitters

  • Authors: Victoria Chan-Palay

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66498-4

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-66500-4Published: 01 September 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-66498-4Published: 20 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 550

  • Number of Illustrations: 355 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurology, Neurosciences

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