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Fundamental Neuroscience

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ISBN-10: 0123858704

ISBN-13: 9780123858702

Edition: 4th 2013

Authors: Larry Squire, Darwin Berg, Floyd E. Bloom, Sascha du Lac, Anirvan Ghosh

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Fundamental Neuroscience, 3rd Edition introduces graduate and upper-level undergraduate students to the full range of contemporary neuroscience. Addressing instructor and student feedback on the previous edition, all of the chapters are rewritten to make this book more concise and student-friendly than ever before. Each chapter is once again heavily illustrated and provides clinical boxes describing experiments, disorders, and methodological approaches and concepts. A companion web site contains test questions, and an imagebank of the figures for ready use in presentations, slides, and handouts.Capturing the promise and excitement of this fast-moving field, Fundamental Neuroscience, 3rd…    
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Book details

List price: $109.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 11/21/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1152
Size: 8.46" wide x 10.87" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 5.830
Language: English

Neuroscience
Fundamentals of Neuroscience
Basic Plan of the Nervous System
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Cellular Components of Nervous Tissue
Subcellular Organization of the Nervous System: Organelles and Their Functions
Membrane Potential and Action Potential
Neurotransmitters
Release of Neurotransmitters
Neurotransmitter Receptors
Intracellular Signaling
Postsynaptic Potentials and Synaptic Integration
Information Processing in Dendrites
Brain Energy Metabolism
Nervous System Development
Neural Induction and Pattern Formation
Cellular Determination
Neurogenesis and Migration
Growth Cones and Axon Pathfinding
Synapse Formation
Programmed Cell Death and Neurotrophic Factors
Synapse Elimination
Dendritic Development
Experience-dependent Plasticity
Sensory Systems
Fundamentals of Sensory Systems
Chemical Senses: Taste and Olfaction
The Somatosensory System
Audition
Vision
Motor Systems
Fundamentals of Motor Systems
The Spinal and Peripheral Motor System
Descending Control of Movement
The Basal Ganglia
Cerebellum
Eye Movements
Regulatory Systems
The Hypothalamus: An Overview of Regulatory Systems
Central Control of Autonomic Functions: Organization of the Autonomic Nervous System
Neural Control of Breathing
Food Intake and Metabolism
Water Intake and Body Fluids
Neuroendocrine Systems
Circadian Timekeeping
Sleep, Dreaming, and Wakefulness
Reward, Motivation, and Addiction
Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Human Brain Evolution
Cognitive Development and Aging
Visual Perception of Objects
Spatial Cognition
Attention
Learning and Memory: Basic Mechanisms
Learning and Memory: Brain Systems
Language and Communication
The Prefrontal Cortex and Executive Brain Functions
Consciousness