Respiratory Neurobiology, Volume 188 Physiology and Clinical Disorders, Part I

• Explores the assessment and treatment of neural disorders of breathing
• Identifies neural complications of respiratory diseases
• Includes SIDS, stroke, Parkinson's, dementia, epilepsy, muscular dystrophy, and more

1. Respiratory rhythm and pattern generation: Brainstem cellular and circuit mechanisms
2. Central respiratory chemoreception
3. Neurobiology of the carotid body
4. Adaptive cardiorespiratory changes to chronic continuous and intermittent hypoxia
5. Early development of the breathing network
6. Critical roles for breathing in the genesis and modulation of emotional states
7. Breathing during sleep
8. The physiology and pathophysiology of exercise hyperpnea
9. Regulation of breathing by cardiopulmonary afferents
10. Respiratory-cardiovascular interactions
11. Dyspnea
12. The pathophysiology of opioid-induced respiratory depression
13. The sigh and related behaviors
14. Neural control of the lower airways: Role in cough and airway inflammatory disease
15. The phrenic neuromuscular system
16. Respiratory neuroplasticity: Mechanisms and translational implications of phrenic motor plasticity

Robert Chen, Professor of Medicine (Neurology), University of Toronto; Senior Scientist, Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ONT, Canada and Patrice G. Guyenet, Professor of Pharmacology, Emeritus, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, United States