""Contents""; ""preface""; ""blood glutamate scavenging: insight into neuroprotection""; ""glutamate and schizophrenia""; ""extracellular osmolarity modulates glutamate uptake and release in neurons, astrocytes and synaptosomes""; ""glutamate:aglobal regulator""; ""calcium-calmodulin kinase type ii-mediated glutamatergic plasticity underlies expression of benzodiazepine-withdrawal anxiety""; ""the role of supraspinal gaba and glutamate in the mediation andmodulation of pain""; ""glutamate receptors of the kainate type:an ion channel becoming ametabotropic receptor""; ""index""