Immediate Early Genes in Sensory Processing, Cognitive Performance and Neurological Disorders

Preface.- Contributors.- The Use of Immediate Early Genes as Mapping Tools for Neuronal Activation: Concepts and Methods.- Part I Immediate Early Gene Expression as Part of Sensory Processing: Regulation of Immediate Early Genes in the Visual Cortex.- Immediate Early Gene Regulation in the Auditory System.- Immediate Early Genes and Sensory Maps of Olfactory and Gustatory Function.- Immediate Early Gene Expression in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex: Focus on the Barrel Cortex.- Immediate Early Genes Induced in Models of Acute and Chronic Pain.- Part II Immediate Early Gene Expression in Complex Systems and Higher Order Cognitive Function: Mapping Sleep-Wake Control With the Transcription Factor c-Fos.- c-Fos and Zif268 in Learning and Memory – Studies on Expression and Function.- Immediate Early Genes and the Mapping of Environmental Representations in Hippocampal Neural Networks.- Neural Dysfunction and Cognitive Impairment Resulting From Inactivation of the Egr-Family Transcription Factor Zif268.- Part III Immediate Early Genes in Neurological Disorder: Clinical Implications: The Contribution of Immediate Early Genes to the Understanding of Brain Processing of Stressors.- Transcriptional Control of Nerve Cell Death, Survival and Repair.- Immediate Early Genes, Inducible Transcription Factors and Stress Kinases in Alzheimer's Disease.- Parkinson's Disease, the Dopamine Pathway and Immediate Early Genes.