A Survey of Medical Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9780387944883 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 437 str.

Robert M. Beckstead

Opis

Ideal for beginning medical and graduate students in need of a comprehensive neuroscience resource, A Survey of Medical Neuroscience focuses on the function of the central nervous system and its relationship to virtually all other systems in the human body.
The text takes the same broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject matter as is currently taken in first-year medical and graduate neuroscience courses. The text is a comprehensive integration of the other disciplines associated with neuroscience - anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavioral science - that can comfortably be read in a short amount of time.
Concepts are illuminated by clear, two-color illustrations. Features appendices containing photographs of representative human brain sections.

Spis treści

1. Neurons and Nervous Systems: First Approximations.- I. Cell Biology of Neurons and Glia.- 2. The Bioelectrical Activity of the Neuronal Membrane.- 3. The Life Cycle of Neurotransmitters.- 4. Synaptic Transmission.- 5. The Response Repertoire of Neurons.- 6. Glial Cells and Their Functions.- II. Morphogenesis and Topographic Anatomy.- 7. The Basic Plan and Ontogeny of the Spinal Cord.- 8. The Ontogeny of the Brain Stem.- 9. The Ontogeny of the Forebrain.- III. Skeletomotor Control Systems.- 10. Sensory Transduction and Coding.- 11. Primary Somatosensory Processing.- 12. The Ascending Somatosensory Systems.- 13. Arousal and Sleep.- 14. The Machinery of Movement.- 15. The Motor Nuclei and the Descending Systems.- 16. Reflexes, Rhythms, and Posture.- 17. Gaze.- 18. Volitional Movement.- 19. The Cerebellum and Movement Precision.- 20. The Basal Ganglia System and Movement Sequencing.- IV. Visceral Sensorimotor Control Systems.- 21. Smell, Taste, and Viscerosensation.- 22. Visceromotor Reflexes.- 23. Hypothalamic Regulation of the Internal Environment.- 24. Motivation and Emotion.- V. Special Senses and Higher Brain Functions.- 25. Hearing.- 26. Visual Transduction.- 27. Visual Processing.- 28. Perception, Cognition, and Language.- 29. Memory and Learning.- VI. Building and Rebuilding the CNS.- 30. The Histogenesis of Nuclei and Cortices.- 31. The Formation and Modification of Connections.- 32. Damage Control and Recovery.- Epilogue.- Appendixes.- A. Blood Supply and Drainage.- B. Ten Representative Sections.