Neuroscience /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sunderland, Mass. :
Sinauer Associates,
[2012]
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| Edition: | Fifth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Studying the nervous system
- Neural signaling
- Electrical signals of nerve cells
- Voltage-dependent membrane permeability
- Ion channels and transporters
- Synaptic transmission
- Neurotransmitters and their receptors
- Molecular signaling within neurons
- Synaptic plasticity
- Sensation and sensory processing
- Somatic sensory system : touch and proprioception
- Pain
- Vision : the eye
- Central visual pathways
- Auditory system
- Vestibular system
- Chemical senses
- Movement and its central control
- Lower motor neuron circuits and motor control
- Upper motor neuron control of the brainstem and spinal cord
- Modulation of movement by the basal ganglia
- Modulation of movement by the cerebellum
- Eye movements and sensory motor integration
- Visceral motor system
- Changing brain
- Early brain development
- Construction of neural circuits
- Modification of neural circuits as a result of experience
- Repair and regeneration in the nervous system
- Complex brain functions
- Association cortex and cognition
- Speech and language
- Sleep and wakefulness
- Emotions
- Sex, sexuality, and the brain
- Memory
- Survey of human neuroanatomy
- Atlas : the human central nervous system.