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Part 1 Slice preparations: Acutely exposed hippocampal neurons - a preparation for patch clamping neurons from adult hippocampal slices, R.Gray et al; use of brain slices in the study of serotonergic pacemaker neurons of the brainstem raphe nuclei, G.Aghajanian; use of slices for quantitative pharmacology, M.A.Simmons; cultures of brain slices, B.Gahwiler and T.Knopfep. Part 2 En bloc preparations: The lamprey CNS in vitro, an experimentally amenable model for synaptic transmission and intefrative functions, L.Brodin and S.Grillner; the isolated turtle brain and the physiology of neuronal circuits, J.Hounsgaard and C.Nicholson; the rabbit retina in vitro, A. Ames and R.H.Masland; the isolated and perfused mammalian hypothalamus, C.W.Bourque.