Brain Architecture (Revised) - Larry W Swanson

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Auteur(s) : Larry W Swanson - Swanson, Larry W

Editeur : Oxford University Press

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/09/2011

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 348.0

Expédition : 557

Dimensions : 21.1 x 14.1 x 22.0

ISBN : 9780195378580

Résumé :

• Preface to First Edition
• 1. Thinking about the Brain: Body and Mind
• 2. How the Brain Works: History, Structure and Function
• 3. The Simplest Nervous Systems: Neurons, Nerve Nets, and Behavior
• 4. Centralization and Symmetry: Ganglia and Nerves
• 5. The Basic Vertebrate Plan: Transverse Divisions
• 6. Neurogenesis: Longitudinal Divisions, Parts List, and Adult Flatmap
• 7. Brain and Behavior: A Four Systems Network Model
• 8. The Motor System: Coordinating External and Internal Behaviors
• 9. The Behavioral State System: Intrinsic Control of Sleep and Wakefulness
• 10. The Cognitive System: Thinking and Voluntary Control of Behavior
• 11. The Sensory System: Inputs from Environment and Body
• 12. Modifiability: Learning, Stress, Cycles, and Damage Repair
• 13. Genome and Connectome

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Biographie:

• Preface to First Edition


• 1. Thinking about the Brain: Body and Mind


• 2. How the Brain Works: History, Structure and Function


• 3. The Simplest Nervous Systems: Neurons, Nerve Nets, and Behavior


• 4. Centralization and Symmetry: Ganglia and Nerves


• 5. The Basic Vertebrate Plan: Transverse Divisions


• 6. Neurogenesis: Longitudinal Divisions, Parts List, and Adult Flatmap


• 7. Brain and Behavior: A Four Systems Network Model


• 8. The Motor System: Coordinating External and Internal Behaviors


• 9. The Behavioral State System: Intrinsic Control of Sleep and Wakefulness


• 10. The Cognitive System: Thinking and Voluntary Control of Behavior


• 11. The Sensory System: Inputs from Environment and Body


• 12. Modifiability: Learning, Stress, Cycles, and Damage Repair


• 13. Genome and Connectome

Sommaire:
Larry W. Swanson, PhD, is Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Swanson has published over 250 research articles and numerous books on brain organization, and is a member of National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Grolier Club....

This short book deserves wide readership. It could serve both as a general introduction for the undergraduate and as a means to wide one's horizon for the experienced researcher. -- Jan Voogd in Science

I was pleasantly surprised by the comparative and evolutionary approach used to introduce the major concepts, and I was drawn in by the historical context in which the story is told...a clearly written and logically organized overview of the major functional subdivisions of the vertebrate nervous system...Swanson's writing style and his ability to present complicated systems and relationships will make this book particularly accessible to students, and generally useful to anyone interested in the neurosciences...commendable job distilling the essential principles from an exceptionally complex subject, making the brevity of this book one of its greatest strengths. -- Kenneth C. Catania in Nature Neuroscience Larry Swanson, one of the great contemporary studen