Edited by
G. Di Giovanni, V. Di Matteo, E. Esposito
2009
The aim of this supplement of The Journal of Neural Transmission is to provide the reader with a unique and timely multidisciplinary synthesis of our current knowledge of the anatomy, pharmacology, physiology, and pathology of the substantia nigra pars compacta dopaminergic neurons. This is most probably one of the most investigated groups of neurons in scientific literature since the discovery of dopamine deficiency in Parkinson’s disease by Hornykievicz and his collaborator Ehringer at the end of the 1950s.