Contributors List Introduction Section 1. Neocortex 1. Neocortical Microcircuits. Javier DeFelipe and Bernardo Rudy 2. Canonical Cortical Circuits. Rodney J. Douglas and Kevan A.C. Martin 3. Microcircuitry of the Neocortex. Srikanth Ramaswamy, Eilif Muller, Michael Reimann, and Henry Markram 4. The Cortical Microcircuit as a Recurrent Neural Network. Rafael Yuste 5. Barrel Cortex. Karel Svoboda and Jianing Yu 6. Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Motor Cortical Circuit (MCC). Hugo Merchanta and Apostolos P. Georgopoulos 7. Prefrontal Cortex. Xiao-Jing Wang Section 2. Thalamus 8. Circuitry of the Lateral Geniculate Nucleus. S. Murray Sherman 9. Thalamus. David A. McCormick Section 3. Circadian System 10. The Suprachiasmatic Nucleus. Gabriella Lundkvist and Gene Block Section 4. Basal Ganglia 11. Microcircuits of the Striatum. Natalie M. Doig and J. Paul Bolam 12. Templates for Neural Dynamics in the Striatum: Striosomes and Matrisomes. Ann M.Graybiel 13. Subthalamo-Pallidal Circuit. Charles J. Wilson Section 5. Limbic System and Memory 14. Mesolimbic Dopamine and the Circuitry of Reward. A. J. Robison and Eric J. Nestler 15. The Cholinergic Multicompartmental Basal Forebrain Microcircuit. Laszlo Zaborsky and Peter Gombkoto 16. Amygdala Microcircuits. Luke R Johnson and Joseph E LeDoux 17. Hippocampus - Intrinsic Organization. Peter Somogyi and Thomas Klausberger 18. Hippocampus: Network Physiology. Gyoergy Buzsaki and Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz 19. Entorhinal Cortex. Edvard I. Moser, Menno P. Witter, and May-Britt Moser 20. The Neuronal Circuit for Simple Forms of Learning in Aplysia. Robert D. Hawkins, Craig H. Bailey, and Eric R. Kandel Section 6. Visual System 21. Retina: Microcircuits for Daylight, Twilight, and Starlight Vision. Jonathan B. Demb and Joshua H. Singer 22. Understanding Retinal Microcircuitry: Then to Now. Frank S. Werblin and John E. Dowling 23. Fly Optic Lamina as a Guide to Neural Circuit Design. Simon B. Laughlin 24. The Insect-Crustacean Visual System: Correspondence with Vertebrates and with Olfaction. Nicholas Strausfeld. Section 7. Olfactory System 25. Olfactory Bulb. Gordon M. Shepherd, Michele Migliore, and Francesco Cavarretta 26. Olfactory Cortex. Donald A. Wilson and Edi Barkai 27. Antennal Lobe Manduca. Hong Lei, Lynne A. Oland, Jeffery A. Riffell, Aaron Beyerlein, and John G. Hildebrand 28. Antennal Lobe of the Honeybee. Juergen Rybak and Randolf Menzel 29. Mushroom Body of the Honeybee. Juergen Rybak and Randolf Menzel 30. Drosophila. Juergen Rybak and Bill Hansson 31. C. Elegans. Cornelia Bargmann Section 8. Taste System 32. Taste Coding and Feedforward/Feedback Signalling in Taste Buds. Stephen D. Roper and Nirupa Chaudhari 33. Microcircuitry of the Rostral Nucleus of the Solitary Tract. Joseph B. Travers and Susan P. Travers Section 9. Auditory System 34. Cochlear Microcircuits. P. A. Fuchs, J.S. Wu, P. Vyas and S.P. Zachary 35. Cochlear Nucleus. Eric D. Young and Donata Oertel 36. Nucleus Laminaris. Jason T. Sanchez, Yan Wang, Yong Lu, R. Michael Burger, Armin Seidi, and Edwin W. Rubel Section 10. Cerebellum 37. Cerebellar Cortex. Masao Ito 38. Olivocerebellar System. Rodolfo R. Llinas Section 11. Motor Systems 39. The Superior Colliculus. Tadashi Isa, Masatoshi Kasai, and Richard Veale 40. Circuitry of the Lamprey Optic Tectum. Andreas A. Kardamakis, Juan Perez Fernandez, and Sten Grillner 41. Respiratory Central Pattern Generator: Microcircuit Generation of the Rhythms and Patterns of Breathing. Kaiwen Kam and Jack L. Feldman 42. The Mammalian Brainstem Chewing Circuitry. Arlette Kolta and James P. Lund 43. The Crustacean Stomatogastric Nervous System. Eve Marder 44. The Mauthner cell microcircuits: sensory integration, decision-making and motor functions. Donald S. Faber and Henri Korn 45. Spinal Circuit for Escape in Goldfish and Zebrafish. Joseph R. Fetcho 46. The Lamprey Postural Circuit. Tatiana G. Deliagina, Pavel V. Zelenin, and Grigiri N. Orlovsky 47. The Lamprey Locomotor Central Pattern Generator. Sten Grillner, Elham Jalalvand, and Peter Wallen 48. Modularity and modulation of locomotor circuits in adult vertebrates. Abdeljabbar El Manira 49. Tadpole Swimming Network. Keith T. Sillar and Wenchang Li 50. Neuronal Circuits that Generate Swimming Movements in Leeches. Wolfgang Otto Friesen 51. The Tritonia Swim Central Pattern Generator. Paul S. Katz 52. The Swimming Circuit in the Pteropod Mollusk Clione Limacine. Yuri I. Arshavsky, Tatiana G. Deliagina, and Grigori N. Orlovsky 53. The Heartbeat Neural Control System of the Leech. Ronald L. Calabrese Index