This single-author book covers basic aspects of neuroscience, including concepts of molecular biology, neurochemistry, and electrophysiology, and makes direct clinical correlations in a concise and coherent manner. This book includes hot topics such as: recent advances in system neurobiology; integration of pain and autonomic control systems; cholinergic and monoaminergic systems controlling behavior; and neuronal microenvironment and mechanisms of injury.
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1. General Principles of Organization and Function of the Nervous System: Basic and Emerging Concepts 2. Control of the Phenotype, Growth, and Survival in the Nervous System 3. Protein Processing, Membrane Organization, and Cytoskeleton 4. Determination of the Structure and Cell Identity of the Nervous System 5. Axon and Myelin: Structure, Development, and Plasticity 6. Synapses: Structural, Molecular, and Developmental Aspects 7. Ion Channels and Channelopathies 8. Neurotransmission and Neuromodulation at Chemical Synapses 9. Mechanisms of Synaptic Regulation and Plasticity: Calcium, Gases, Eicosanoids, Phosphorylation, Transcriptional Regulation, and Steroid Signaling 10. Central Excitatory Synapses and Synaptic Plasticity 11. Inhibitory Neurotransmission in the Central Nervous System: Neurochemistry and Pharmacology 12. Cortical Organization and Thalamocortical Circuits 13. Relay of Exteroceptive Information: Somatosensory, Visual, and Auditory Systems 14. Pain, Temperature, Visceral, Taste, and Olfactory Sensation: Integrated Information for Homeostasis, Adaptation, and Emotion 15. Processing of Information in the Cerebral Cortex 16. Motor Control: Sensorimotor Transformations and Motor Cortex 17. Basal Ganglia and Cerebellum: Functional Organization and Role in Control of Motor and Cognitive Behavior 18. Spinal and Brain-Stem Mechanisms of Motor Control: Reflexes and Pattern Generators for Control of Posture, Locomotion, Eye Movements, and Swallowing 19. Motor Unit 20. Peripheral Autonomic Control of Visceral Organs 21. Central Control of Homeostasis and Adaptation 22. Central Control of Circadian Rhythms and Sleep-Wake Cycle 23. Cholinergic and Monoaminergic Systems: Control of Cognition and Behavior 24. Limbic System: Emotion and Memory 25. Cortical Networks for Object Recognition, Language, Attention, and Executive Control of Behavior 26. Energy Metabolism in the Nervous System 27. Neuronal Microenvironment 28. Mechanisms of Neuronal Injury and Death
