This volume offers a comprehensive update and overview of the field of cholinergic
transmission as presented by some thirty distinguished investigators who were recruited
for their task from Germany, Great Britain, Canada, USA, Sweden, Israel,
France and Italy. Exciting new discoveries, described in this volume, are due to recent
methodological breakthroughs. These discoveries throw a new light on many
areas of cholinergic mechanisms, whether involving central or peripheral nervous
system, as molecular, electrophysiological, biophysical, neuronal, behavioral and
cognitive aspects of the cholinergic field are considered in detail.