Neuroscience

6th Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-60535-380-7
Verlag: Sinauer Associates

Buch, Englisch, 800 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Neuroscience is a comprehensive textbook created primarily for medical, premedical, and undergraduate neuroscience students. In a single concise and approachable volume, the text guides students through the challenges and excitement of this rapidly changing field. The book's length and accessible writing are a successful combination that has proven to work equally well for medical students and in undergraduate neuroscience courses.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Purves, Dale

Augustine, George

Fitzpatrick, David

Hall, William C

LaMantia, Anthony

Mooney, Richard

White, Leonard E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Chapter 1. Studying the Nervous System.- UNIT I. NEURAL SIGNALING.- Chapter 2. Electrical Signals of Nerve Cells .- Chapter 3. Voltage-Dependent Membrane Permeability.- Chapter 4. Ion Channels and Transporters.- Chapter 5. Synaptic Transmission.- Chapter 6. Neurotransmitters and Their Receptors.- Chapter 7. Molecular Signaling within Neurons.- Chapter 8. Synaptic Plasticity.- UNIT II. SENSATION AND SENSORY PROCESSING.- Chapter 9. The Somatosensory System: Touch and Proprioception.- Chapter 10. Pain.- Chapter 11. Vision: The Eye.- Chapter 12. Central Visual Pathways.- Chapter 13. The Auditory System.- Chapter 14. The Vestibular System.- Chapter 15. The Chemical Senses.- UNIT III. MOVEMENT AND ITS CENTRAL CONTROL.- Chapter 16. Lower Motor Neuron Circuits and Motor Control.- Chapter 17. Upper Motor Neuron Control of the Brainstem and Spinal Cord.- Chapter 18. Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia.- Chapter 19. Modulation of Movement by the Cerebellum.- Chapter 20. Eye Movements and Sensory Motor Integration.- Chapter 21. The Visceral Motor System.- UNIT IV. THE CHANGING BRAIN.- Chapter 22. Early Brain Development.- Chapter 23. Construction of Neural Circuits.- Chapter 24. Circuit Differentiation: Intrinsic Factors and Sex Differences.- Chapter 25. Modification of Neural Circuits as a Result of Experience.- Chapter 26. Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System.- UNIT V. COMPLEX BRAIN FUNCTIONS AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE.- Chapter 27. Cognitive Functions and the Organization of the Cerebral Cortex.- Chapter 28. Cortical States.- Chapter 29. Attention.- Chapter 30. Memory.- Chapter 31. Emotion.- Chapter 32. Thinking, Planning, and Deciding.- Chapter 33. Speech and Language.- Chapter 34. Development and Evolution of Cognitive Functions.- Appendix: Survey of Human Neuroanatomy.- Atlas: The Human Central Nervous System.- Glossary.

Über Autor(innen)

Dale Purves is Geller Professor of Neurobiology Emeritus in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Durham, USA.Professor George J. Augustine is a Professor in Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.David Fitzpatrick is Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA.William C. Hall is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, USA.Anthony-Samuel LaMantia is a Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology at The George Washington University and Director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience, USA.Richard D. Mooney is Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University School of MedicineMichael L. Platt is a Professor at University of PennsylvaniaLeonard E. White is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, USA.