Fundamental neuroscience /
Guardado en:
| Otros Autores: | |
|---|---|
| Formato: | Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier/Academic Press,
c2008.
|
| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Table of contents only |
| Aporte de: | Registro referencial: Solicitar el recurso aquí |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fundamentals of neuroscience
- Basic plan of the nervous system
- Cellular components of nervous tissue
- Subcellular organization of the nervous system: organelles and their functions
- Electrotonic properties of axons and dendrites
- Membrane potential and action potential
- Neurotransmitters
- Release of neurotransmitters
- Neurotransmitter receptors
- Intracellular signaling
- Postsynaptic potentials and synaptic integration
- Complex information processing in dendrites
- Brain energy metabolism
- Neural induction and pattern formation
- Cellular determination
- Neurogenesis and migration
- Growth cones and axon pathfinding
- Target selection, topographic maps, and synapse formation
- Programmed cell death and neurotrophic factors
- Synapse elimination
- Dendritic development
- Early experience and sensitive periods
- Fundamentals of sensory systems
- Chemical senses: taste and olfaction
- Somatosensory system
- Audition.
- Vision
- Fundamentals of motor systems
- The spinal and peripheral motor system
- Descending control of movement
- The basal ganglia
- Cerebellum
- Eye movements
- The hypothalamus: an overview of regulatory systems
- Central control of autonomic functions: organization of the autonomic nervous system
- Neural regulation of the cardiovascular system
- Neural control of breathing
- Food intake and metabolism
- Water intake and body fluids
- Neuroendocrine systems
- Circadian timekeeping
- Sleep, dreaming, and wakefulness
- Reward, motivation, and addiction
- Human brain evolution
- Cognitive development and aging
- Visual perception of objects
- Spatial cognition
- Attention
- Learning and memory: basic mechanisms
- Learning and memory: brain systems
- Language and communication
- The prefrontal cortex and executive brain functions
- The neuroscience of consciousness.