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