Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cellular strategies of axonal pathfinding / Jonathan Raper and Carol Mason -- Navigating intermediate targets : the nervous system midline / Barry J. Dickson and Yimin Zou -- Motor axon pathfinding / Dario Bonanomi and Samuel L. Pfaff -- Molecular and cellular mechanisms of lamina-specific axon targeting / Andrew D. Huberman, Thomas R. Clandinin, and Herwig Baier -- Self-avoidance and tiling : mechanisms of dendrite and axon spacing / Wesley B. Grueber and Alvaro Sagasti -- Visual map development : bidirectional signaling, bifunctional guidance molecules, and competition / David A. Feldheim and Dennis D.M. O'Leary -- Topographic mapping : the olfactory system / Takeshi Imai, Hitoshi Sakano, and Leslie B. Vosshall -- Wiring the brain : the biology of neuronal guidance / Alain Chedotal and Linda J. Richards -- Human genetic disorders of axon guidance / Elizabeth C. Engle --

Initiating and growing an axon / Franck Polleux and William Snider -- The growth cone cytoskeleton in axon outgrowth and guidance / Erik W. Dent, Stephanie L. Gupton, and Frank B. Gertler -- Rho and ras gtpases in axon growth, guidance, and branching / Alan Hall and Giovanna Lalli -- Signaling from axon guidance receptors / Greg J. Bashaw and Rüdiger Klein -- Trafficking guidance receptors / Bettina Winckler and Ira Mellman -- Guiding neuronal cell migrations / Oscar Maron ... [et al.] -- Guidance molecules in synapse formation and plasticity / Kang Shen and Christopher W. Cowan -- Guidance molecules in axon pruning and cell death / Pierre Vanderhaeghen and Hwai-Jong Cheng -- Guidance molecules in axon regeneration / Roman J. Giger, Edmund R. Hollis II, and Mark H. Tuszynski -- Axon guidance molecules in vascular patterning / Ralf H. Adams and Anne Eichmann.