. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 StephenP. H. AlexanderandDavidA. Kendall 2 EndocannabinoidReceptorPharmacology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 KenMackieandBettyYao 3 EndocannabinoidReceptors:CNSLocalizationoftheCB 1 CannabinoidReceptor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Istva´nKatona 4 PharmacologicalToolsinEndocannabinoidNeurobiology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 MarcoMorandAlessioLodola 5 GeneticModelsoftheEndocannabinoidSystem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 KrisztinaMonoryandBeatLutz 6 EndocannabinoidSignalinginNeuralPlasticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 BradleyE. Alger 7 LessonsfromNonmammalianSpecies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 KenSoderstrom PartII PhysiologyandPathophysiology 8 RolesoftheEndocannabinoidSysteminLearning andMemory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Ë GiovanniMarsicanoandPaulineLafenetre vii viii Contents 9 EndocannabinoidsandtheNon-HomeostaticControl ofAppetite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 TimC. Kirkham 10 Cannabinoid/EndocannabinoidSignalingImpactonEarly PregnancyEvents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 XiaofeiSunandSudhansuK. Dey 11 TargetingtheCannabinoidSystemtoProduceAnalgesia . . . . . . . . . . . 275 DeviRaniSagar, MaulikJhaveri, andVictoriaChapman 12 IntegrationofEndocannabinoidSignalingintotheNeural NetworkRegulatingStress-InducedActivationofthe Hypothalamic-Pituitary-AdrenalAxis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 BorisB. GorzalkaandMatthewN. Hill PartIII Pathology 13 DrugAddiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 ZuzanaJustinova, LeighV. Panlilio, andStevenR. Goldberg 14 RoleofEndocannabinoidSignalinginAnxietyandDepression. . . . . 347 SachinPatelandCeciliaJ. Hillard 15 FeedingDisordersandObesity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 CristinaCervino, ValentinaVicennati, RenatoPasquali, andUbertoPagotto 16 Schizophrenia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387 F. Markus 17 Tourette'sSyndrome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397 KirstenR. Mu¨ller-Vahl Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 Contributors StephenP. H. Alexander SchoolofBiomedicalSciencesandInstituteofNeuroscience, UniversityofN- tingham Medical School, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK; steve. alexander@nottingham. ac. uk BradleyE. Alger Departments of Physiology and Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 655 W. Baltimore St. /BRB 5-025, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA; balger@umaryland. edu CristinaCervino Endocrinology Unit and Center of Applied Biomedical Research (C. R. B. A. ), DepartmentofInternalMedicineandGastroenterology, S. Orsola-MalpighiHos- tal, AlmaMaterStudiorumUniversityofBologna, 40138Bologna, Italy VictoriaChapman SchoolofBiomedicalSciences, UniversityofNottingham, NottinghamNG72UH, UK;victoria. chapman@nottingham. ac. uk SudhansuK. Dey Departments of Pharmacology, Pediatrics and Cell & Developmental Biology, Division of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt University MedicalCenter, Nashville, TN37232, USA;sk. dey@vanderbilt. edu StevenR. | Behavioral Neurobiology of the Endocannabinoid System by Dave Kendall, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters