Medical neurobiology / Peggy Mason.

Author
Mason, Peggy (Neurobiologist) [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Oxford University Press, [2011], ©2011.
Description
xiii, 665 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

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    Subject(s)
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction to the nervous system
    • Cells of the nervous system: neurons and glia
    • Developmental overview of neuroanatomy: the tube within the brain
    • Neural communication
    • Neuron at rest
    • Electrical communication within a neuron
    • Neurotransmitter release
    • Synthesis, packaging, and termination of neurotransmitters
    • Receiving the synaptic message
    • Neuroanatomy
    • Spinal cord: conduit between body and brain
    • Cranial nerves: brain sentries
    • Brainstem organization
    • Inside the brainstem: cranial nerve nuclei and long-distance connections
    • Forebrain: action, perception, emotion, thought
    • Following the nutrients: blood supply, blood-brain barrier, and ventricles
    • Perception
    • Perceiving the world
    • Seeing the world
    • Audition: communciation portal
    • Somatosensation: focus on pain
    • Vestibular sense: balance and equilibrium
    • Motor control
    • Motor unit and orderly recruitment
    • Reflexes and gait
    • From movement to action: postural stability, orienting, and praxis
    • Cerebellum
    • Basal ganglia: action selection
    • Gaze control
    • Homeostasis
    • Homeostatic systems: staying alive
    • You and the brain
    • Brain in a physician's life.
    ISBN
    • 9780195339970 (alk. paper)
    • 0195339975 (alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2010034433
    OCLC
    656850379
    RCP
    C - S
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