Principles of Neural Science

ANNOTATION

The book contains predominantly color illustrations, with some black-and-white illustrations.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Now in resplendent color, the new edition continues to define the latest in the scientific understanding of the brain, the nervous system, and human behavior. Each chapter is thoroughly revised and includes the impact of molecular biology in the mechanisms underlying developmental processes and in the pathogenesis of disease. Important features to this edition include a new chapter - Genes and Behavior; a complete updating of development of the nervous system; the genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric disease; cognitive neuroscience of perception, planning, action, motivation and memory; ion channel mechanisms; and much more.

SYNOPSIS

Completely updated and reorganized, Principles of Neural Science, Fourth Edition provides an authoritative introduction to the brain: its structure, function, development, and control of behavior. It presents an in-depth summary of the state of the science as well as a full discussion of historical issues. Neuroanatomy, cell and molecular mechanisms of signaling, development and plasticity are thoroughly described in the context of cognitive approaches to behavior.

Principles of Neural Science, Fourth Edition is an essential reference for your clinical practice or research. This edition features expanded treatment of: Ion channel mechanisms, including new structural views of both voltage-gated and transmitter-gated channels involved in neuronal signaling development of the nervous system-covering neuroinduction and patterning, the generation of cell lineages, cell-cell adhesion, axon outgrowth, target recognition, and synapse formation The genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric diseases-Huntington's disease, Alzheimer's disease, muscular dystrophy, depression, and schizophrenia cognitive neuroscience of perception, planning, action, motivation, and memory And the new, spectacular color art program reinforces basic concepts and principles with remarkable clarity. Principles of Neural Science, Fourth Edition provides the most current, comprehensive coverage of this exciting and fast-moving field.

FROM THE CRITICS

Doody Review Services

Reviewer: Daniel B Hier, MD (University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine)Description: This is the fourth edition of a superb textbook of neural science. Purpose: The authors have created simply the best available introductory text to the neurosciences aimed at both medical students and graduate students with an interest in how the brain and nervous system works. Audience: Although aimed primarily at medical and graduate students, this book can be read by neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, and residents in each of these disciplines. Features: Although labeled an introduction, this is a very big and very comprehensive book that stretches over more than 1,300 pages and 63 chapters. Beginning with how the neuron works and how neurons are organized into working assemblies, the book proceeds to elegantly tackle cognition, perception, movement, and emotion. Concluding chapters examine development of the nervous system and recapture problems in language, memory, and mood. Assessment: This is a simply wonderful book that makes accessible in one place all the details of how the neuron and brain work. The writing is clear. The drawings are elegant and educational. The book is a feast for both the eye and mind. The richness, the beauty, and the complexity of neuroscience is all captured in this superb book.

Booknews

New edition of a text that emphasizes the examination of behavior at the level of individual nerve cells by addressing questions as to how the brain develops, how nerve cells in the brain communicate with one another, how different patterns of interconnections give rise to different perceptions and motor acts, how communication between neurons is modified by experience, and how that communication is altered by diseases. The 63 chapters discuss the neurology of behavior; cell and molecular biology of the neuron; elementary interactions between neurons (synaptic transmission); the neural basis of cognition; perception; movement; arousal, emotion, and behavior homeostatis; the development of the nervous system; and language, thought, mood, and learning, and memory. Contains many color and b&w illustrations. Edited by Kandell, James H. Schwartz, and Thomas M. Jessell of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior (College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia U.) and The Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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