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Comparative vertebrate neuroanatomy : evolution and adaptation /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butler, Ann B.
Other Authors: Hodos, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, [2005]
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Neuroanatomy.
Vertebrates > Anatomy.
Nervous system > Evolution.
Anatomy, Comparative.
Nervous system > Adaptation.
Central Nervous System > anatomy & histology.
Adaptation, Biological.
Biological Evolution.
Vertebrates > anatomy & histology.
Neuroanatomie.
Vertébrés > Anatomie.
Système nerveux > Évolution.
Anatomie comparée.
Système nerveux > Adaptation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Evolution and variation
  • Neurons and sensory receptors
  • The vertebrate central nervous system
  • Vertebrate phylogeny and diversity in brain organization
  • Evolution and adaptation of the brain, behavior, and intelligence
  • Theories of brain evolution
  • Overview of spinal cord and hindbrain
  • The spinal cord
  • Segmental organization of the head, brain, and cranial nerves
  • Functional organization of the cranial nerves
  • Sensory cranial nerves of the brainstem
  • Motor cranial nerves
  • The reticular formation
  • The cerebellum
  • Overview of the midbrain
  • Isthmus
  • Tegmentum and tori
  • Optic tectum
  • Overview of the forebrain
  • Pretectum, accessory optic system, and migrated posterior tuberculum
  • Epithalamus
  • Dorsal thalamus
  • The visceral brain : the hypothalamus and the autonomic nervous system
  • Basal telencephalon
  • Nonlimbic pallium
  • Visual forebrain in amniotes
  • Somatosensory and motor forebrain in amniotes
  • Auditory and vocal forebrain in amniotes
  • Terminal nerve and olfactory forebrain
  • Limbic telencephalon
  • Evolution of brains : a bilaterian view.