Neuroscience

Exploring the Brain

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ISBN: 9780781760034

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Widely praised for its student-friendly style and exceptional artwork and pedagogy, Neuroscience:: Exploring the Brain is a leading undergraduate textbook on the biology of the brain and the systems that underlie behavior. This edition provides increased coverage of taste and smell, circadian rhythms, brain development, and developmental disorders and includes new information on molecular mechanisms and functional brain imaging. Path of Discovery boxes, written by leading researchers, highlight major current discoveries. In addition, readers will be able to assess their knowledge of neuroanatomy with the Illustrated Guide to Human Neuroanatomy, which includes a perforated self-testing workbook.

This editions robust ancillary package includes a bound-in student CD-ROM, an Instructors Resource CD-ROM, and resources online.

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Brand LWW

Reference 42328

EAN13 9780781760034

ISBN 9780781760034

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Publication date: 2006
Issue number: 3
Cover: hard cover
Pages count: 928
Dimensions (mm): 216 x 279
Weight (g): 2450

FOUNDATIONS
Neuroscience:: Past, Present, and Future
Neurons and Glia
The Neuronal Membrane at Rest
The Action Potential
Synaptic Transmission
Neurotransmitter Systems
The Structure of the Nervous System
Appendix:: An Illustrated Guide to Human Neuroanatomy
SENSORY AND MOTOR SYSTEMS
The Chemical Senses
The Eye
The Central Visual System
The Auditory and Vestibular Systems
The Somatic Sensory System
Spinal Control of Movement
Brain Control of Movement
THE BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR
Chemical Control of the Brain and Behavior
Motivation
Sex and the Brain
Brain Mechanisms of Emotion
Brain Rhythms and Sleep
Language
Attention
Mental Illness
THE CHANGING BRAIN
Wiring the Brain
Memory Systems
Molecular Mechanisms of Learning and Memory
Glossary
References
Index