Neuroscience

Mark F. Bear, Barry W. Connors, Michael A. Paradiso

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007 - Medical - 857 pages

Widely praised for its student-friendly style and exceptional artwork and pedagogy, Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain is a leading undergraduate textbook on the biology of the brain and the systems that underlie behavior. This edition provides increased coverage of taste and smell, circadian rhythms, brain development, and developmental disorders and includes new information on molecular mechanisms and functional brain imaging. Path of Discovery boxes, written by leading researchers, highlight major current discoveries. In addition, readers will be able to assess their knowledge of neuroanatomy with the Illustrated Guide to Human Neuroanatomy, which includes a perforated self-testing workbook. This edition's robust ancillary package includes a bound-in student CD-ROM, an Instructor's Resource CD-ROM, a Connection Website, and LiveAdvise: Neuroscience online student tutoring.

Contents

• Chapter: 13
• Animal Welfare: 17
• Neurons and Glia: 23
• Expressing Ones Mind in the PostGenomic Era: 32
• Retrograde Transport: 42
• A Review of Moles and Molarity: 60
• The Goldman Equation: 68
• CLASSIFYING NEURONS 45 MacKinnon: 70
• GLIA 46: 76
• Methods of Recording Action Potentials: 78
• The PatchClamp Method: 88
• THE MOVEMENT OF IONS 59 The Effects of Toxins on the Sodium Channel: 89
• THE DISTRIBUTION OF IONS ACROSS THE MYELIN AND SALTATORY CONDUCTION: 96
• Chapter 5: 101
• The Neuromuscular Junction: 109
• PRINCIPLES OF SYNAPTIC INTEGRATION: 122
• IPSPs and Shunting Inhibition: 128
• OTHER NEUROTRANSMITTER CANDIDATES: 147
• This Is Your Brain on Endocannabinoids: 149
• The Brains Exciting Poisons: 156
• GPROTEINCOUPLED RECEPTORS: 157
• EXPANDED CONTENTS: 161
• DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE: 164
• Chapter 7: 167
• THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM: 172
• Water on the Brain: 175
• Nutrition and the Neural Tube: 182
• DIFFERENTIATION OF THE MIDBRAIN: 187
• A GUIDE TO THE CEREBRAL CORTEX: 195
• Sensory and Motor: 236
• The Chemical Senses: 251
• Memories of a Very Bad Meal: 262
• SMELL: 263
• Chapter 9: 277
• Demonstrating the Blind Regions of Your Eye: 282
• ACCOMMODATION BY THE LENS: 284
• PHOTOTRANSDUCTION: 292
• The Genetics of Color Vision: 297
• TRACT: 311
• David and Goliath: 315
• LAMINATION OF THE STRIATE CORTEX: 320
• Direction Selectivity: 326
• BEYOND STRIATE CORTEX: 333
• The Magic of Seeing in 3D: 338
• CONCLUDING REMARKS: 340
• THE STRUCTURE OF THE AUDITORY SYSTEM: 347
• Cochlear Implants: 357
• How Does Auditory Cortex Work? Consult: 374
• THE OTOLITH ORGANS: 378
• VESTIBULAR PATHOLOGY: 384
• Herpes Shingles and Dermatomes: 396
• PAIN: 408
• The Misery of Life Without Pain: 409
• The Placebo Effect: 418
• CONCLUDING REMARKS: 421
• Movement: 423
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: 432
• Myasthenia Gravis: 438
• THE GENERATION OF SPINAL MOTOR PROGRAMS: 447
• Movement: 451
• DESCENDING SPINAL TRACTS: 453
• Paresis Paralysis Spasticity and Babinski: 456
• THE PLANNING OF MOVEMENT BY THE CEREBRAL: 459
• Part III: 478
• The Brain: 481
• THE BASAL GANGLIA 464: 498
• Chapter 2: 499
• THE CEREBELLUM 472 DRUGS AND THE DIFFUSE MODULATORY: 504
• Neurons and Glia 23: 509
• Chemical Control of the Brain and BEHAVIOR: 511
• THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM 490 The Control of Feeding by Lateral Hypothalamic: 518
• WHY DO WE EAT?: 522
• Chapter 3: 524
• TEMPERATURE REGULATION: 529
• The Neuronal Membrane: 533
• THE HORMONAL CONTROL OF SEX: 537
• WHY AND HOW MALE AND FEMALE BRAINS: 546
• Chapter 5: 568
• Synaptic Transmission 101: 585
• Chapter 6: 604
• CONCLUDING REMARKS 582 THE BRAIN: 618
• Chapter 7: 628
• LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN SPLITBRAIN: 629
• Hearing Sight: 636
• The Structure of the Nervous: 643
• PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ATTENTION: 649
• HOW IS ATTENTION DIRECTED?: 656
• ANXIETY DISORDERS: 665
• AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: 673
• SCHIZOPHRENIA: 679
• The Changing Brain: 687
• Chapter 23: 689
• THE GENESIS OF CONNECTIONS: 697
• Part II: 702
• Why Our: 705
• Chapter 24: 725
• Chapter 8: 738
• ELEMENTARY MECHANISMS OF CORTICAL SYNAPTIC Spatial Memory and Place Cells: 746
• PRIMATES: 752
• The Chemical Senses 251: 761
• TEMPORAL LOBES 737 Sensitization of the GillWithdrawal Reflex: 767
• Chapter 11: 770
• Chapter 10: 774
• The Somatic Sensory: 795
• Chapter 11: 817
• The Somatic Sensory: 854

Popular passages

Page xxxvi - And men ought to know that from nothing else but thence (from the brain) come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear, and know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good, what are sweet, and what unsavory; some we discriminate by habit, and some we perceive by their utility.

Page xxxvi - And by the same organ we become mad and delirious, and fears and terrors assail us, some by night, and some by day...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Neuroscience; Volume 2 of Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain
• Editors: Mark F. Bear, Barry W. Connors, Michael A. Paradiso
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007
• ISBN: 0781760038, 9780781760034
• Length: 857 pages
• Subjects: Medical / Neurology