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: 3
• Chapter: 9
• THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS: 15
• Chapter 2: 23
• Alzheimers Disease and the Neuronal: 36
• Synaptic Transmission: 40
• Hitching a Ride With Retrograde Transport: 42
• CLASSIFYING NEURONS: 45
• INTRODUCTION: 48
• Chapter 3: 51
• THE IONIC BASIS OF THE RESTING MEMBRANE: 61
• Death by Lethal Injection: 72
• PRINCIPLES OF CHEMICAL SYNAPTIC: 111
• PRINCIPLES OF SYNAPTIC INTEGRATION: 122
• CATECHOLAMINERGIC NEURONS: 143
• TRANSMITTERGATED CHANNELS: 152
• DIVERGENCE AND CONVERGENCE: 164
• THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM: 172
• EXPANDED CONTENTS: 187
• The Structure of the Nervous A GUIDE TO THE CEREBRAL CORTEX: 195
• The Brain Stem 171: 203
• THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM 172 Systems: 249
• SMELL: 263
• Chapter 9: 277
• Demonstrating the Blind Regions of Your Eye: 282
• PHOTOTRANSDUCTION: 292
• The Genetics of Color Vision: 297
• TRACT: 311
• David and Goliath: 315
• BEYOND STRIATE CORTEX: 333
• The Magic of Seeing in 3D: 338
• PARALLEL PROCESSING AND PERCEPTION: 339
• Ultrasound and Infrasound: 346
• THE STRUCTURE OF THE AUDITORY SYSTEM: 347
• Cochlear Implants: 357
• Part III: 360
• Chapter 16: 366
• How Does Auditory Cortex Work? Consult: 374
• Herpes Shingles and Dermatomes: 396
• PAIN: 408
• The Misery of Life Without Pain: 409
• Chapter 25: 412
• The Placebo Effect: 418
• CONCLUDING REMARKS: 421
• ALPHA MOTOR NEURONS: 428
• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: 432
• Myasthenia Gravis: 438
• GAMMA MOTOR NEURONS: 440
• THE GENERATION OF SPINAL MOTOR PROGRAMS: 447
• DESCENDING SPINAL TRACTS: 453
• Paresis Paralysis Spasticity and Babinski: 456
• THE PLANNING OF MOVEMENT BY THE CEREBRAL: 459
• 509: 483
• THE BASAL GANGLIA 464: 498
• THE CEREBELLUM 472 DRUGS AND THE DIFFUSE MODULATORY: 504
• Chemical Control of the Brain and BEHAVIOR: 511
• THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM 490 Peptides: 518
• WHY DO WE EAT?: 522
• CONCLUDING REMARKS: 530
• THE HORMONAL CONTROL OF SEX: 537
• WHY AND HOW MALE AND FEMALE BRAINS: 546
• Brain Rhythms and Sleep: 586
• Language: 617
• CONCLUDING REMARKS 582 THE BRAIN: 618
• LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN SPLITBRAIN: 629
• Attention: 635
• FASTER REACTION TIMES: 647
• HOW IS ATTENTION DIRECTED?: 656
• Mental Illness: 661
• ANXIETY DISORDERS: 665
• AFFECTIVE DISORDERS: 673
• SCHIZOPHRENIA: 679
• The Changing Brain: 687
• THE GENESIS OF CONNECTIONS: 697
• THE ELIMINATION OF CELLS AND SYNAPSES: 704
• ELEMENTARY MECHANISMS OF CORTICAL SYNAPTIC: 716
• CONCLUDING REMARKS: 722
• THE TEMPORAL LOBES AND DECLARATIVE: 738
• INTRODUCTION: 762
• VERTEBRATE MODELS OF LEARNING: 772
• THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF LONGTERM: 787
• Glossary: 795
• References and Resources: 817
• Index: 837
• Memory Systems 725: 844

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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