Texture of the Nervous System of Man and the Vertebrates

Volume I
1999
ISBN: 978-3-211-83057-4
Verlag: Springer Vienna

Buch, Englisch, 635 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1436 g

Most scientists agree that the 21st century will be the "Century of Biology". The revolution that started a few decades ago with the extraordinary develop­ ment of molecular biology, has provided the basis for the understanding of the mechanisms that govern life through the regulation of cell function and cell-to­ cell interactions. Neuroscience will surely be one of the biological disciplines that will profit the most from this revolution. Neuroscience comprises the study of the brain, and the more difficult relationship of brain and behavior. It is indeed a very broad field of investigation that, from molecular biology and genetics, passing through systems physiology, functional mapping of the brain, and even human behavior, has as the ultimate goal the understanding of how the brain works. The importance of this aim is immense, since it is the only scientific approach to understanding ourselves. Today, owing to the great progress made in neuroscientific research, there is a real hope that highly complex processes such as sensory perception, ICTlg­ term memory, learning and others will soon be comprehended in their entirety.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cajal, Santiago R. y

Pasik, Tauba

Pasik, Pedro

Weitere Mitwirkende

Pasik, P.

Pasik, T.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pathologie, Cytopathologie, Histopathologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Physiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Vorklinische Medizin: Grundlagenfächer Anatomie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General concept of the nervous system.- Review of research methods and resulting discoveries.- Components of the nervous tissue.- Morphology of nerve cells (Continuation).- Physiologic inferences from the morphology and connectivity of neurons.- Structure of the nerve cell; Physiologic inferences based on the cell structure.- Continuation of the physiologic interpretation of neuronal structure.- Neuroglia.- Nerve fibers.- Neural centers; Spinal cord.- Structure of the white matter of the spinal cord.- Structure of gray matter.- Commissural and funicular cells.- Distribution of funicular cells in various regions of the gray matter.- Sensory neurons, i.e. neurons with somata outside the spinal cord sending axons to the cord.- Endings of peripheral processes of spinal ganglion cells.- Central processes of sensory neurons.- Neuroglia of the gray matter of the spinal cord.- Physiologic inferences based on a new structural concept of the spinal cord; Reflex movements.- Comparative histology of the spinal cord.- Histogenesis of the spinal cord and spinal ganglia.