News and Commentary

Regulation of food intake: an ‘old’ actor plays a ‘new’ role

• G G Piroli

Targeting Ras/ERK signaling in the striatum: will it help?

• R Brambilla

Dopamine and Parkinson's disease: is the killer in the house?

• M-F Chesselet

Stress without distress: homeostatic role for K_ATP channels

• L V Zingman
• D M Hodgson
• A Terzic

Roles of dopamine signaling in nicotine addiction

• J A Dani

Anger is a wind that blows out the light of the mind (old proverb)

• J Grafman

The fate of neural crest stem cells: nature vs nurture

• É Mezey

MMR and autistic enterocolitis: consistent epidemiological failure to find an association

• E Fombonne
• E H Cook Jr

NSAID and Alzheimer's disease; possible answers and new questions

• K L Davis

TNFα: kill or cure for demyelinating disease?

• B Finsen
• J Antel
• T Owens

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis/Batten disease: the lysosomal proteinoses

• P Gupta
• S L Hofmann

Estrogen and inflammation: hormone generous action spreads to the brain

• E Vegeto
• P Ciana
• A Maggi

Retrograde signaling at central synapses via endogenous cannabinoids

• M Kano
• T Ohno-Shosaku
• T Maejima

Role of apoE/Aβ interactions in Alzheimer's disease: insights from transgenic mouse models

• R P Brendza
• K R Bales
• D M Holtzman

A possible role of olivary gap-junctions in the generation of physiological and pathological tremors

• Y Loewenstein

Spontaneous plasticity in the injured spinal cord—implications for repair strategies

• N Weidner
• M H Tuszynski

New insights into the role of thyroid hormone in the CNS: the microglial track

• M Mallat
• F R S Lima
• V Moura Neto

Metabotropic glutamate receptors on peripheral sensory neuron terminals as targets for the development of novel analgesics

• F Karim
• G Bhave
• R W Gereau IV

11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type I in the brain; thickening the glucocorticoid soup

• J L W Yau
• J R Seckl

Dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) is associated with Novelty Seeking (NS) and substance abuse: the saga continues . . .

• J M Lusher
• C Chandler
• D Ball