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Preface to the First Edition | |
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Thinking about the Brain: Body and Mind | |
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How the Brain Works: History, Structure, and Function | |
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Three Biological Perspectives | |
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The Simplest Nervous Systems: Neurons, Nerve Nets, and Behavior | |
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Unicellular Organisms: Behaviors Essential for Survival | |
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Animals without Neurons: Independent Effectors | |
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The First Nervous System: Hydra's Body and Behavior | |
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Sensory Neurons: Functional Polarity of Dendrites and Axon | |
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Motor Neurons: A Second Distinct Neuron Type | |
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Nerve Nets: Amacrine Extensions and Activity Patterns | |
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Interneurons: Sign Switchers and Pattern Generators | |
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Overview: Evolution of Architecture, Not Building Blocks | |
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Centralization and Symmetry: Ganglia and Nerves | |
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Flatworms: Bilaterally Symmetrical Predators | |
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Segmented Worms: Inner Ventral Nerve Cord | |
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More Evolved Invertebrates | |
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Overview: Polarity, Regionalization, Bilateral Symmetry, Segments | |
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The Basic Vertebrate Plan: Transverse Divisions | |
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Embryological Perspectives | |
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Earliest Stages of Mammalian Development | |
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Neural Plate: Central Nervous System Divisions | |
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Neural Tube: Transverse Brain Divisions | |
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Neural Crest and Placodes: Peripheral Nervous System | |
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Overview | |
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Neurogenesis: Longitudinal Divisions, Parts List, and Adult Flatmap | |
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Generating Neuron Types: Longitudinal Central Nervous System Divisions | |
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Generating Gray Matter Regions | |
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Macroconnections, Mesoconnections, and Microconnections | |
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A Nervous System Flatmap for Mammals | |
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Overview: Parts of the Nervous System | |
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Brain and Behavior: A Four Systems Network Model | |
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Reflex and Voluntary Control of Behavior | |
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Behavioral State Control | |
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Feedback | |
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Topography versus Systems | |
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Overview: Defining Each System | |
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The Motor System: Coordinating External and Internal Behaviors | |
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Motor Neuron Varieties | |
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Introduction to the Somatic Motor System: Flexion | |
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Distribution of Somatic Motor Neuron Pools | |
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Central Pattern Generators-Sets of Motor Neuron Pools | |
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Pattern Initiators and Controllers: Drive and Motivation | |
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The Autonomic Motor System | |
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The Neuroendocrine Motor System | |
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The Cerebellum: Motor Coordination and Learning | |
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Overview: Integration within and between Motor Systems | |
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The Behavioral State System: Intrinsic Control of Sleep and Wakefulness | |
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Circadian Rhythms: The Day-Night Cycle | |
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Reproductive Cycles | |
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Sleep-Wake Cycles | |
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Modulating Behavioral State | |
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The Cognitive System: Thinking and Voluntary Control of Behavior | |
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Cerebral Cortex Regionalization | |
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Cortical Cellular Organization | |
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Cortical Outputs | |
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The Cerebral Nuclei | |
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Triple Caudal (Descending) Projection from Cerebrum | |
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The Sensory System: Inputs from Environment and Body | |
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Evolution and Development of Sensory Neurons | |
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Overview of Sensory Neurons | |
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Overview of Sensory Pathways | |
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Forebrain Sensory Systems: Olfactory, Visual, Humoral, and Osmotic | |
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Ganglion Cell Sensory Systems: Submodalities | |
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Affect: Pain and Pleasure, Emotion, and Mood | |
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Modifiability: Learning, Stress, Cycles, and Damage Repair | |
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Learning: Changing Synaptic Strength | |
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Stress: Biochemical Switching | |
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Cycles: Circadian and Reproductive | |
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Damage Repair: Regrowth | |
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Genome and Connectome | |
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Describing Position in the Animal Body | |
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Naming and Classifying Nervous System Parts | |
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Methods for Analyzing Brain Architecture | |
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Epigraphs | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |