Dale Purves is Director of the Neuroscience and Behavioural Disorders program at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School and Executive Director of the Neuroscience Research Partnership at A*STAR (both located in Singapore).

George J. Augustine is Director of the Center for Functional Connectomics in Seoul, Korea.

David Fitzpatrick is Chief Executive Officer and Scientific Director of the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, USA.

William C. Hall is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, USA.

Anthony-Samuel LaMantia is a Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology at The George Washington University and Director of the GW Institute for Neuroscience, USA.

Leonard E. White is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Duke University School of Medicine, USA.

Neuroscience is a comprehensive textbook created primarily for medical, premedical, and undergraduate students. In a single concise and approachable volume, the text guides students through the challenges and excitement of this rapidly changing field. The book's concise length and accessible writing are a successful combination that has proven to work equally well for medical students and in undergraduate neuroscience courses.

AUTHORITATIVE TEXTBOOK FOR AN EMERGING DISCIPLINE
Draws together the research and theory of 'cognitive neuroscience' developed over the last two decades
Contains all the material in one concise volume - the goto textbook for neuroscience
Written by 6 leaders in the field

EMPHASIS ON BRAIN FUNCTION
Research examples are integrated throughout to give a real insight into the biological function of the brain

CLEAR STRUCTURE
Clearly structured with logical progression of chapters that matches onto courses easily

FULLCOLOUR THROUGHOUT
Richly illustrated in full colour throughout

ACCESSIBLE PEDAGOGY
Clear, engaging chapter introductions
Helpful endofchapter summaries
Boxed material on topics of special interest
Extensive references to useful reviews, important original papers and books
Extensive glossary of key terms

A FREE Sylvius DOWNLOAD included with every book. (For more information see below.)

AN APPENDIX PRESENTING AN ILLUSTRATED NARRATIVE OF HUMAN NEUROANATOMY plus annotated atlas plates presenting brain sections from Sylvius.

Studying the Nervous System.- UNIT I. 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.- UNIT II. SENSATION AND SENSORY PROCESSING .- The Somatic Sensory System.- Pain.- Vision: The Eye.- Central Visual Pathways.- The Auditory System.- The Vestibular System.- The Chemical Senses.- UNIT III. 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.- The Visceral Motor System.- UNIT IV. THE 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.- UNIT V. COMPLEX BRAIN FUNCTIONS .- The Association Cortices.- Speech and Language.- Sleep and Wakefulness.- Emotions.- Sex, Sexuality, and the Brain.- Memory.- Appendix: Survey of Human Neuroanatomy.- Atlas: The Human Central Nervous System.

In a single concise and approachable volume, this bestselling textbook guides students through the challenges and excitement of this rapidly changing field. The book's concise length and accessible writing are a successful combination that works equally well for medical students and in undergraduate neuroscience courses. In this new edition the text is thoroughly revised and includes expanded full colour art throughout.
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