the current monograph is an creative and brave try and supply a synthesis of information in regards to the af ferent connections of the medial basal hypothalamus. purely a person who has lived via many of the explosive increase ment - over the past 25 years or so - within the neuroscience generally, and in hypothalamic practical neuroanatomy in parti cular, can absolutely have fun with the remarkably constant photograph rising from this research. the author of this foreword was once (alas!) an energetic player within the very early and untimely, and in addition principally naive, makes an attempt to penetrate the "jungle" of hypothalamic connections with degeneration tools once they first grew to become on hand within the past due Thirties. (I have advised part of this quite pathetic tale is an autobiographical caricature in Pioneers in Neuroendocrinology [Meites et aI., (eds) (1975), Vol I. Plenum] simply because i used to be sufficiently self-critical to not put up my early effects. ) in spite of the suppressive Nauta-type silver stains, brought within the mid-1950s, experiences of hypothala mic connections had in simple terms marginal effects, which the reader will surely get pleasure from if he compares the suitable figures within the first version of Hypothalamic keep watch over of the Anterior Pituitary [Szentagothai et al. (1962) Akademiai Kiad6, Budapest], with Dr. Zaborszky's concluding diagrams. The process utilized by Dr. Zaborszky of mixing the extra complicated Fink-Heimer style degeneration recommendations, and a few in their most up-to-date changes via Gallyas et al.