Neurosciences – a comprehensive approach
This textbook covers neuroscience from cellular and molecular mechanisms to behavior and cognitive processing. We also address evolution of the nervous system, computational neuroscience, the history of neuroscience as a discipline and neurophilosophy – to name but a few. The book provides the newest state-of-the-art knowledge about neuroscience from across the animal kingdom, with particular emphasis on model species commonly used in neuroscience labs across the world: mouse, zebra fish, fruit fly, honeybee, and nematode worm. We aim at university students of neuroscience, psychology, biological sciences, and medical sciences, but also computer scientists, philosophers, or anybody interested in understanding how brains work.
Author(s): François Clarac (auth.), C. Giovanni Galizia, Pierre-Marie Lledo (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Spektrum
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 736
Tags: Neurosciences; Neurobiology
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
From Neurophysiology to Neuroscience: New Technologies and New Concepts in the Twentieth Century....Pages 1-18
Evolution of Nervous Systems and Brains....Pages 19-45
Ontogeny of the Vertebrate Nervous System....Pages 47-61
Diseases....Pages 63-74
Neurophilosophy....Pages 75-79
Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neural Function....Pages 81-112
Electrical Activity in Neurons....Pages 113-143
The Synapse....Pages 145-162
Biology and Function of Glial Cells....Pages 163-177
The Autonomic Nervous System....Pages 179-211
Neuropeptides and Peptide Hormones....Pages 213-237
The Biological Function of Sensory Systems....Pages 239-252
Olfaction....Pages 253-284
Taste....Pages 285-302
Thermosensation....Pages 303-319
Mechanosensation....Pages 321-335
Auditory Systems....Pages 337-362
Vision....Pages 363-407
Electroreception....Pages 409-425
The Magnetic Senses....Pages 427-443
Pain and Nociception....Pages 445-459
Muscles and Motility....Pages 461-478
Motor Control....Pages 479-524
The Neural Bases of Emotions....Pages 525-552
Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Central Nervous System....Pages 553-576
Cellular Correlates of Learning and Memory....Pages 577-608
Circadian Timing....Pages 609-627
Learning, Memory, and Cognition: Animal Perspectives....Pages 629-653
Primate Social Intelligence....Pages 655-669
Computational Neuroscience: Capturing the Essence....Pages 671-694
Back Matter....Pages 695-736
