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By
Eduardo Benarroch
Description
This single-author book covers basic aspects of neuroscience, including concepts of molecular biology, neurochemistry, and electrophysiology,
and makes direct clinical correlations in a concise and coherent manner.
Contents
1. General Principles of Organization and Function of the Nervous System: Basic and Emerging Concepts
2. Control of the Phenotype,
Growth, and Survival in the Nervous System
3. Protein Processing, Membrane Organization, and Cytoskeleton
4. Determination of the
Structure and Cell Identity of the Nervous System
5. Axon and Myelin: Structure, Development, and Plasticity
6. Synapses: Structural,
Molecular, and Developmental Aspects
7. Ion Channels and Channelopathies
8. Neurotransmission and Neuromodulation at Chemical Synapses
9.
Mechanisms of Synaptic Regulation and Plasticity: Calcium, Gases, Eicosanoids, Phosphorylation, Transcriptional Regulation, and Steroid
Signaling
10. Central Excitatory Synapses and Synaptic Plasticity
11. Inhibitory Neurotransmission in the Central Nervous System:
Neurochemistry and Pharmacology
12. Cortical Organization and Thalamocortical Circuits
13. Relay of Exteroceptive Information:
Somatosensory, Visual, and Auditory Systems
14. Pain, Temperature, Visceral, Taste, and Olfactory Sensation: Integrated Information
for Homeostasis, Adaptation, and Emotion
15. Processing of Information in the Cerebral Cortex
16. Motor Control: Sensorimotor
Transformations and Motor Cortex
17. Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum: Functional Organization and Role in Control of Motor and Cognitive
Behavior
18. Spinal and Brain-Stem Mechanisms of Motor Control: Reflexes and Pattern Generators for Control of Posture, Locomotion,
Eye Movements, and Swallowing
19. Motor Unit
20. Peripheral Autonomic Control of Visceral Organs
21. Central Control of Homeostasis
and Adaptation
22. Central Control of Circadian Rhythms and Sleep-Wake Cycle
23. Cholinergic and Monoaminergic Systems: Control
of Cognition and Behavior
24. Limbic System: Emotion and Memory
25. Cortical Networks for Object Recognition, Language, Attention,
and Executive Control of Behavior
26. Energy Metabolism in the Nervous System
27. Neuronal Microenvironment
28. Mechanisms of
Neuronal Injury and Death
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 1120 pages, publication date: OCT-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-7536-9
ISBN-10: 0-7506-7536-5
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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