Nervous System

 

Essential Neuroscience

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Item:9780781791212
Pub Date:Oct 2007
Edition:Revised First
Pages:576
Illustrations:451
Cover:Softbound
Trim Size:8.5" x 11" (21.6 x 28 cm)
Author 1:Allan  Siegel PhD
Author 1:Hreday N Sapru PhD 
Essential Neuroscience, Revised First Edition, offers medical and health professions students a concise, clinically relevant text that gives equal weight to the branches of science represented within neuroscience: anatomy, physiology, biology, and chemistry. In this balanced treatment, it distinguishes itself from other competing textbooks.

Featuring a unique "building block" approach, Essential Neuroscience, Revised First Edition, now includes the book's fully searchable online text as well as key updates and revisions.


Table Of Contents 


GROSS ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN
  • Overview of the Central Nervous System
  • Development of the Nervous System
  • Meninges and Cerebrospinal Fluid
  • Blood Supply to the Brain
THE NEURON
  • Histology
  • Electrophysiology
  • Synaptic Transmission
  • Neurotransmitters
ORGANIZATION OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
  • The Spinal Cord
  • Brainstem I: The Medulla
  • Brainstem II: Pons and Cerebellum
  • Brainstem III: Midbrain
  • The Forebrain
  • Cranial Nerves
SENSORY SYSTEMS
  • Somatosensory System
  • Visual System
  • Auditory and Vestibular Systems
  • Olfaction and Taste
MOTOR SYSTEMS
  • Upper Motor Neuron: Pyramidal System
  • The Basal Ganglia
  • The Cerebellum
INTEGRATIVE SYSTEMS
  • The Autonomic Nervous System
  • The Reticular Formation
  • The Hypothalamus
  • The Limbic System
  • The Cerebral Cortex
  • Vascular Syndromes of the Brainstem
  • Behavioral Disorders



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