**Meet the editor**

Dr Carlos M. Contreras is a Senior Researcher at the Biomedical Research Institute, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Titular Professor of Experimental Clinical Medicine and Pharmacology at the Universidad Veracruzana, and member of the National Researchers System in México. Dr Contreras is a Medical Doctor and Doctor of Sciences at UNAM where he has

taught Physiological Psychology for the past three decades. His first studies at the Neurology and Neurosurgery Institute in México involved the pharmacology of sleep, epilepsy, and drug dependence. He later received training in Biological Psychiatry in Mexico and Experimental Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. During the past 30 years, he has been studying and continuously publishing his results on the neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and ethology of affective disorders and anxiety and more recently the neurobiology of mother-infant linkage processes.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Adrenaline and Noradrenaline:** 

**Partners and Actors in the Same Play 1** 

Maria Lourdes Bastos, Rui Albuquerque Carvalho,

**Hormone Release by P2X Purinergic Receptors 61** 

**Modeling of Skin Conductance Response 83** 

Carlos M. Contreras, Ana G. Gutiérrez-García

**Beta in the Central Nervous System 129** 

**Pathophysiology of Septic Encephalopathy 149** 

Takeshi Shimazu, Takashi Jin and Akitoshi Seiyama

Vera Marisa Costa, Félix Carvalho,

Chapter 2 **The Mystery of P2X7 Ionotropic Receptor: From a Small Conductance Channel to a Large Conductance Channel 45**  R.X. Faria, L.G.B. Ferreira and L.A. Alves

Chapter 3 **Facilitation of Neurotransmitter and** 

Chapter 4 **Assessment of Brain Monoaminergic** 

Saša Branković

Chapter 6 **Transforming Growth Factor** 

Arpád Dobolyi

Chapter 7 **Neurochemistry in the** 

Márcia Carvalho and Fernando Remião

Vojtech Vavra, Anirban Bhattacharya, Marie Jindrichova and Hana Zemkova

**Signaling Through Mathematical** 

Chapter 5 **Fatty Acids and Emotional Behavior 109** 

Yukio Imamura, Huan Wang, Naoya Matsumoto, Hiroshi Ogura,

and Diana Idania Vásquez-Hernández
