Principles of Neural Science, Sixth Edition

The gold standard of neuroscience texts?€”updated with hundreds of brand-new images and fully revised content in every chapter

With 300 new illustrations, diagrams, and radiology studies including PET scans, Principles of Neural Science, 6th Edition is the definitive guide for neuroscientists, neurologists, psychiatrists, students, and residents. Highly detailed chapters on stroke, Parkinson?€™s, and MS build your expertise on these critical topics. Radiological studies the authors have chosen explain what?€™s most important to know and understand for each type of stroke, progressive MS, or non-progressive MS.

Features:

• 2,200 images, including 300 new color illustrations, diagrams, and radiology studies (including PET scans)
• NEW: This edition now features only two contributors per chapter and are mostly U.S.-based
• NEW: Number of chapters streamlined down from 67 to 60
• NEW: Chapter on Navigation and Spatial Memory
• NEW: New images in every chapter!

Table of Contents:

· PART I: Overall Perspective

1. The Brain and Behavior

2. Nerve Cells and Behavior

3. Genes and Behavior

4. Circuits and Behavior

· PART II: Cell and Molecular Biology of the Neuron

5. The Cells of the Nervous System

6. Ion Channels

7. Propagated Signaling: The Action Potential

· PART III: Overview: Synaptic Transmission

8. Overview of Synaptic Transmission

9. Signaling at the Nerve Muscle Synapse: Directly Gated Transmission

10. Synaptic Integration in the Central Nervous System

11. Modulation of Synaptic Transmission: Second Messengers

12. Transmitter Release

13. Neurotransmitters

· PART IV: Perception

14. Sensory Coding

15. The Somatosensory System: Receptors and Central Pathways

16. Touch

17. Pain

18. The Constructive Nature of Visual Processing

19. Low-Level Visual Processing: The Retina

20. Intermediate-Level Visual Processing: Visual Primitives

21. High-Level Visual Processing: Cognitive Influences

22. Visual Processing and Action

23. The Inner Ear

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24. The Vestibular System

25. The Auditory Central Nervous System

26. Smell and Taste: The Chemical Senses

· PART V: Movement

27. The Organization and Planning of Movement

28. The Motor Unit, Muscle Action, and Spinal Reflexes

29. Locomotion

30. Voluntary Movement

31. The Control of Gaze

32. Posture

33. The Cerebellum

34. The Basal Ganglia

· PART VI: The Unconscious and Conscious Processing of Neural Information

35. The Brain Stem

36. The Autonomic Motor System and the Hypothalamus

37. Emotions and Feelings

38. Homeostasis, Motivation, and Addictive States

39. Seizures and Epilepsy

40. Sleep and Dreaming

· PART VII: Development and the Emergence of Behavior

41. Patterning the Nervous System

42. Differentiation and Survival of Nerve Cells

43. The Growth and Guidance of Axons

44. Formation and Elimination of Synapses

45. Experience and the Refinement of Synaptic Connections

46. Repairing the Damaged Brain

47. Sexual Differentiation of the Nervous System

· PART VII: Language, Thought, Affect, and Learning

48. From Nerve Cells to Cognition Internal Representations for Space and Action

49. Language

50. Learning and Memory

51. Cellular Mechanisms of Implicit Memory Storage

52. Prefrontal Cortex, Hippocampus, and the Biology of Explicit Memory Storage

53. Navigation and Spatial Memory

PART IX: Neurologic Disorders

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54. Diseases of the Nerve and Motor Unit

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55. Disorders of Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes

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56. Disorders of Thought and Volition: Schizophrenia

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57. Disorders of Mood and Anxiety

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58. Autism and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders Affecting Cognition

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59. Genetic Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases

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60. The Aging Brain

· Appendices
A. Functional Imaging of Cognition

· B. Review of Basic Circuit Theory
C. The Neurological Examination of the Patient
D. Circulation of the Brain
E. The Blood-Brain Barrier, Choroid Plexus, and Cerebrospinal Fluid
F. Neural Networks

· 2,200 images, including 300 new color illustrations, diagrams, and radiology studies (including PET scans)

· NEW: This edition now features only two contributors per chapter and are mostly U.S.-based

· NEW: Number of chapters streamlined down from 67 to 60

· NEW: Chapter on Navigation and Spatial Memory

· NEW: New images in every chapter!