Neuroscience,9780878937424

Neuroscience

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Edition: CD
ISBN13: 9780878937424
ISBN10: 0878937420
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-10-01
Publisher(s): Sinauer Associates Inc
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Summary

Textbook, for undergraduates, highlighting the intellectual challenges, excitement, and uncertainties of what many see as the last great frontier of biological science. Color formatting. Includes a CD-ROM containing six modules allowing interaction with a whole-brain specimen, examine the brain's 3-D internal organization, and more. Prev. ed.: c1997. DNLM: Nervous System Physiology.

Table of Contents

The Organization of the Nervous System
1(42)
Unit I Neural Signaling
Electrical Signals of Nerve Cells
43(14)
Voltage-Dependent Membrane Permeability
57(20)
Channels and Transporters
77(22)
Synaptic Transmission
99(18)
Neurotransmitters
117(24)
Neurotransmitter Receptors and Their Effects
141(24)
Intracellular Signal Transduction
165(24)
Unit II Sensation and Sensory Processing
The Somatic Sensory System
189(20)
Pain
209(14)
Vision: The Eye
223(28)
Central Visual Pathways
251(24)
The Auditory System
275(22)
The Vestibular System
297(20)
The Chemical Senses
317(30)
Unit III Movement and its Central Control
Lower Motor Neuron Circuits and Motor Control
347(22)
Upper Motor Neuron Control of the Brainstem and Spinal Cord
369(22)
Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia
391(18)
Modulation of Movement by the Cerebellum
409(18)
Eye Movements and Sensory Motor Integration
427(16)
The Visceral Motor System
443(28)
Unit IV The Changing Brain
Early Brain Development
471(22)
Construction of Neural Circuits
493(26)
Modification of Brain Circuits as a Result of Experience
519(16)
Plasticity of Mature Synapses and Circuits
535(30)
Unit V Complex Brain Functions
The Association Cortices
565(22)
Language and Lateralization
587(16)
Sleep and Wakefulness
603(22)
Emotions
625(20)
Sex, Sexuality, and the Brain
645(20)
Human Memory
665

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