The Sensory Circumventricular Organs of the Mammalian Brain: Subfornical Organ, OVLT and Area Postrema

by M.J. McKinley, R.M. McAllen, P. Davern

This is the only book entirely devoted to the sensory circumventricular organs. It reviews research into their detailed anatomy, neurochemistry, neural connections, and functions, and provides the reader with many illustrations previously unpublished.

139 pages, Paperback

First published August 5, 2003

Reviews

[H Gultiano]

The brain has a few small areas with no blood brain barrier, which act as different types of chemical sensors, for things like balancing salt levels, temperature, detecting toxins. This is just a technical book on those areas that I downloaded and listened to on the bus, what else is there to say? There's not as much on the area postrema (the toxin detecting well in the brainstem, involved in nausea) as I was looking for with my current interest in chemoreception