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Abundantly illustrated text describes the brains and sense organs of 57 of the 139 genera of the class Cephalopoda. Includes numerous fully labeled line drawings and describes in detail their highly developed nervous system and examines their complex predatory behavior and life cycles. Expanded-outline format.

The Brains and Lives of Cephalopods

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Enhanced with superb illustrations, this comprehensive and up-to-date compendium includes chapters on the structure, function, and pathophysiology of axons in both the PNS and CNS.

The Axon: Structure, Function and Pathophysiology

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Stem Cells and CNS Development critically reviews recent findings on stem cells, their involvement in neurogenesis and gliogenesis, and the therapeutic implications of these findings. It defines by consensus the classes of stem cells in the nervous system, compares their similarities and differences, discusses the gains made in identifying human homologs of neural stem cells, and describes how these cells are beginning to be used for therapeutic purposes. Comprehensive and cutting-edge, this book provides all developmental scientists and neurobiologists not only an authoritative account of the current results in neural stem cell research, but also an incisive review of the rapidly emerging therapeutic uses of stem cells.

Stem Cells and CNS Development

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The distributed coding hypothesis —the view that complex cognitive functions such as visual perception or memory formation are the work of large networks of neurons in areas of the cerebral cortex —is widely accepted in contemporary neuroscience. Yet only in recent years have tools emerged that can monitor the electrophysiological activity of neuron ensembles in the cortical areas of awake, behaving animals. The use of these multichannel recording techniques in biological network analysis is changing the way scientists view brain function. These methods also offer the possibility of a direct test of the distributed coding hypothesis.

Neuronal Ensembles: Strategies for Recording and Decoding presents a comprehensive treatment of multichannel recording techniques —how to apply them and how to analyze the vast amounts of data they generate. Composed of contributions by leading neuroscientists at the forefront of this technology, the book covers groundbreaking work in multichannel microelectrode technology, analyses of single neuron spike trains, and ensemble analysis of cell populations. The authors outline established techniques, offer practical tips on developing new methods, and share their ideas for further brain research.

Topics covered include:

• Extracellular recording and analysis of neural activity
• The relationship between neuronal codes and cortical organization
• Cell assemblies and cognitive function
• Neuronal population coding
• Motor cortical information processing
• Detection and identification of ensemble codes in the motor cortex
• Ensemble recordings and the nature of stimulus representation in hippocampal cognitive maps
• Methods, results, and issues related to recording neural ensembles
• Neuronal ensemble dynamics in the hippocampus and neocortex during sleep and waking
• Behavioral, electrophysiological, and genetic approaches to the study of synaptic plasticity and memory

Neuronal Ensembles: Strategies for Recording and Decoding is an important reference for researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in all areas of neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and bioengineering.

Neuronal Ensembles: Strategies for Recording and Decoding

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This Second Edition, is the new, thoroughly revised edition of the established and well-respected authoritative text in the field. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology is hypothesis driven and firmly based on numerous experiments performed by experts in the field. Seven new chapters (five new and two totally rewritten) complement and expand on the first edition and are written in a way that encourages students to ask questions. Additionally, new, groundbreaking research data on dendritic processing is presented in a very easy-to-understand format.

* A presentation that is hypothesis driven and firmly based on experiment
* A concise but in depth explanation of molecular properties and functions of excitable cells
* Over 400 two-colour illustrations
* Appendices describing neurobiological techniques

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Second Edition

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Neuroscience LabFax is a comprehensive collection of the most up-to-date methods and data available in neuroscience, addressing issues from the molecular and biophysical to the cellular and systems level of analysis. Complemented by excellent diagrams, the information is clearly presented and easily accessible. Neuroscience LabFax has a broad-based interdisciplinary focus, integrating methods and data from cellular and molecular neuroscience, biophysics and behavior. This volume covers electrophysical recording, neuronal cell culture, preparation of tissues for microscopy or analysis, and molecular biology and neurobiology techniques. Written by experts in the field, this text is essential for neuroscientists from all subdisciplines, for those new to the field as well as experienced researchers.

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* Presents key information on neuroscience in one concise, comprehensive volume
* Up-to-date methods and data
* Provides information from molecular, biophysical, and cellular trends

Neuroscience LabFax

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Continuing progress has been made in understanding the brain at the molecular, anatomic, and physiological levels in the years following the “Decade of the Brain,” with the results providing insight into the underlying basis of many neurological disease processes. In Neuroscience in Medicine, Third Edition, a distinguished panel of basic and clinical investigators, noted for their teaching excellence, provide thoroughly updated and revised chapters to reflect these remarkable advances. Designed specifically for medical students and allied health professionals, this up-to-date edition alternates scientific and clinical chapters that explain the basic science underlying neurological processes and then relate that science to the understanding of neurological disorders and their treatment. These popular and now expanded “clinical correlations” cover, in detail, disorders of the spinal cord, neuronal migration, the autonomic nervous system, the limbic system, ocular motility, and the basal ganglia, as well as demyelinating disorders, stroke, dementia and abnormalities of cognition, congenital chromosomal and genetic abnormalities, Parkinson’s disease, nerve trauma, peripheral neuropathy, aphasias, sleep disorders and myasthenia gravis. In addition to concise summaries of the most recent biochemical, physiological, anatomical, and behavioral advances, the chapters summarize current findings on neuronal gene expression and protein synthesis at the molecular level.

Authoritative and comprehensive, Neuroscience in Medicine, Third Edition provides a fully up-to-date and readily accessible guide to brain functions at the cellular and molecular level, as well as clearly demonstrating their emerging diagnostic and therapeutic importance.

Neuroscience in Medicine: Third Edition

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This edition of the popular text incorporates recent advances in neurobiology enabled by modern molecular biology techniques. Understanding how the brain works from a molecular level allows research to better understand behaviours, cognition, and neuropathologies. Since the appearance six years ago of the 2e, much more has been learned about the molecular biology of development and its relations with early evolution. This “evodevo” (as it has come to be known) framework also has a great deal of bearing on our understanding of neuropathologies as dysfunction of early onset genes can cause neurodegeneration in later life. Advances in our understanding of the genomes and proteomes of a number of organisms also greatly influence our understanding of neurobiology.

• Well known and widely used as a text throughout the UK, good reviews from students and lecturers.
• Good complement to Fundementals of Psychopharmacology by Brian Leonard

This book will be of particular interest to biomedical undergraduates undertaking a neuroscience unit, neuroscience postgraduates, physiologists, pharmacologists.
It is also a useful basic reference for university libraries.

Maurice Elphick, Queen Mary, University of London
“I do like this book and it is the recommended textbook for my course in Molecular Neuroscience. The major strength of the book is the overall simplicity of the format both in terms of layout and diagrams.”

Elements of Molecular Neurobiology

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This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery.

Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts

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Spiders are wonderful creatures. Their varied and complex range of behavior and highly developed sensory systems are excellently adapted to the environmental conditions – as is proven by their evolutionary success. Over 400 million years, spiders have developed their sensory organs to a fascinating technical perfection and complexity.
In his intriguing book, Professor Friedrich G. Barth puts this technical perfection into the context of “biology”, in which the interaction between environment and sensory organs and the selectivity of the senses as a link between environment and behavior play a major role.

A Spider’s World: Senses and Behavior