Book Details
Orange Code:95314
Paperback:725 pages
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1. Getting Ready for a Brain Structure Primer2. Methods for Mapping Pathways and Interconnections That Enable the Integrative Activity of the CNS3. Evolution of Multicellular Organisms with Neuron-Based Coordination4. Expansions of the Neuronal Apparatus of Success5. The Ancestors of Mammals: Sketch of a Pre-mammalian Brain6. Some Specializations Involving Head Receptors and Brain Expansions7. The Components of the Forebrain Including the Specialty of the Mammals: The Neocortex8. The Neural Tube Forms in the Embryo, and CNS Development Begins9. The Lower Levels of Background Support: Spinal Cord and the Innervation of the Viscera10. Hindbrain Organization, Specializations, and Distortions11. Why a Midbrain? Notes on Evolution, Structure, and Functions12. Picturing the Forebrain with a Focus on Mammals13. Growth of the Great Networks of Nervous Systems14. Overview of Motor System Structure15. Descending Pathways and Evolution16. The Temporal Patterns of Movements17. Widespread Changes in Brain State18. Taste19. Olfaction20. Visual Systems: Origins and Functions21. Visual Systems: The Retinal Projections22. The Visual Endbrain Structures23. Auditory Systems24. Forebrain Origins: From Primitive Appendage to Modern Dominance25. Regulating the Internal Milieu and the Basic Instincts26. Core Pathways of the Limbic System, with Memory for Meaningful Places27. Hormones and the Shaping of Brain Structures28. The Medial Pallium Becomes the Hippocampus29. The Limbic Striatum and Its Outpost in the Temporal Lobe30. The Major Subpallial Structure of the Endbrain31. Lost Dopamine Axons: Consequences and Remedies32. Structural Origins of Object Cognition, Place Cognition, Dexterity, and Planning33. Basic Neocortical Organization: Cells, Modules, and Connections34. Structural Change in Development and in Maturity
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An introduction to the brain's anatomical organization and functions with explanations in terms of evolutionary adaptations and development.
This introduction to the structure of the central nervous system demonstrates that the best way to learn how the brain is put together is to understand something about why. It explains why the brain is put together as it is by describing basic functions and key aspects of its evolution and development. This approach makes the structure of the brain and spinal cord more comprehensible as well as more interesting and memorable. The book offers a detailed outline of the neuroanatomy of vertebrates, especially mammals, that equips students for further explorations of the field.
Gaining familiarity with neuroanatomy requires multiple exposures to the material with many incremental additions and reviews. Thus the early chapters of this book tell the story of the brain's origins in a first run-through of the entire system; this is followed by other such surveys in succeeding chapters, each from a different angle. The book proceeds from basic aspects of nerve cells and their physiology to the evolutionary beginnings of the nervous system to differentiation and development, motor and sensory systems, and the structure and function of the main parts of the brain. Along the way, it makes enlightening connections to evolutionary history and individual development. Brain Structure and Its Origins can be used for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate classes in neuroscience, biology, psychology, and related fields, or as a reference for researchers and others who want to know more about the brain.
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