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Review of neuroscience /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haines, Duane E.
Other Authors: Lancon, John A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Churchill Livingstone, [2003]
Subjects:
Central Nervous System > physiology.
Central Nervous System > anatomy & histology.
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
Table of Contents:
  • Orientation to the structure and imaging of the central nervous system
  • The cell biology of neurons and glia
  • The electrochemical basis of neuronal integration
  • The chemical basis for neuronal communication
  • Development of the nervous system
  • The ventricles, choroid plexus, and cerebrospinal fluid
  • The meninges
  • A survey of the cerebrovascular system
  • The spinal cord
  • An overview of the brainstem and the medulla oblongata
  • The pons and cerebellum
  • The midbrain
  • A synopsis of cranial nerves of the brainstem
  • The diencephalon
  • The telencephalon
  • The somatosensory system : tactile discrimination and position sense and touch, thermal sense, and pain
  • Viscerosensory pathways
  • The visual system
  • The auditory system
  • The vestibular system
  • Olfaction and taste
  • The motor system : peripheral sensory, brainstem, and spinal influence on anterior horn neurons and corticofugal neurons and the control of movement
  • The basal nuclei
  • The cerebellum
  • Visual motor systems
  • Visceral motor pathways
  • The hypothalamus
  • The limbic system
  • The cerebral cortex
  • The neurologic examination