Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 612.8
EAN num: 9780127808703
ISBN number: 0127808701
Label: Academic Press
Manufacturer: Academic Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 1600
Printing Date: January 15, 1999
Publishing house: Academic Press
Sale Popularity Level: 1160263
Studio: Academic Press
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Fundamental Neuroscience is the only comprehensive text that defines the full scope of neuroscience. Developed in accordance with results of extensive reviews by neuroscience instructors, this text is divided into seven integrated sections. Each section may be used for a specific course, or the full text may be adopted to provide a broad-based curriculum that will carry the student from molecular to cognitive neuroscience. Special Features: Written by approximately 100 authors who are specialists in their field
Careful editing ensures a uniform style and cross-referencing between chapters
Prepared in cooperation with the Association of Neuroscience Departments and Programs
Created through the stewardship of an internationally renowned editorial board
Developed in accordance with the results of extensive reviews by neuroscience instructors
Provides historical context and addresses the progress of neuroscience and psychology disciplines
Covers integrative systems and the clinical significance of neurobiology
Provides comprehensive coverage of molecular, cellular, developmental, organismal, behavioral, and cognitive neuroscience
Includes nearly 1000 high-quality colour illustrations
Provides discussions of key experiments
Includes clinical correlations and examples from a wide range of species
Presents critical ethical content
CD-ROM of images is available for presentations and course instruction (CD-ROM only, ISBN number: 0-12-78-871-X/Deluxe Edition with Book & CD-ROM,
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More detailed and therefore suitable for the basic neuroscientist than Kandel and Schwartz. A good review to read before comprehensive exams for the Neuroscience PhD. All the authors are recognized experts in the field. An excellent treatment of systems and cognitive neuroscience, including emotion and motivation. Some may find the molecular details a little much, but this is what textbooks are for. Nobody ever said neuroscience was easy!
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...I've come across...what is it with neuroscientists?...prior to this book I had thought Kandell and Schwartz's "Principle's of Neuroscience" was the most poorly written...in both cases the authors' primary goal seems to be one of obfuscation...perhaps an example would serve better -- from this book when discussing the hierarchy of nervous system organization:
"At the systems level, emphasis is on the spatially distributed sensors and effectors that integrate the body's response to environmental challenges."
...in other words, at the systems level the nervous "system" interacts with the environment...well, "duhhhh"...and the whole section is so similarly dense that by the time you get to the end you'll probably have forgotten what the authors' originally meant to achieve in the very first place...in this particular case, the authors' SIMPLY wanted the reader to understand that there are three levels of organization -- molecules, nerves, the nervous "system"...that's it...really...and I'm guessing it took the authors 600-700 words to say just that...yet their version does not present one iota of additional useful information...it's ridiculous...density does not translate into meaning...I would recommend "From Neuron to Brain" as a more readable alternative although it too could stand some judicious editing.
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I am an academic neuroscientist who teaches neurosciences at our university. I think this new edition is leaner but provides even more information than the previous edition of Fundamental Neuroscience. I plan to use it in one of my upcoming classes. The figures are very helpful, are clear and wonderfully drawn. The new reference section at the end of each chapter helps keep the book very much up-to-date. Overall, I recommend it highly.
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The book has been used extensively and is our most important book on neurosciences for our 3 year Msc(Neuroscience) University Sains Malaysia course as well as our Phd programme.The phase one Advanced Master of Medicine(Neurology) and Master of Surgery(Neurosurgery) uses it as well.The latest edition is concised and translational enough for those from chemistry,biology,physics backgrounds to understand fundamental neuroscience issues.
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This textbook is a very detailed and very up-to-date exposition of Neuroscience, and in my view, for the more advanced student it is one of the best books out there. What it is NOT is a simple, concise introduction for people who are studying the nervous system for the very first time. If you are taking an entry-level Neuroscience course you are likely to be overwhelmed by the amount of detail, and, like some of the other reviewers who gave this book a bad rap, might blame the book for the fact that you can only take in so much detail in a very first sitting, and fail to see the forest for all the trees. So if you are new to Neuroscience, read something like Bear et al "Neuroscience - Exploring the Brain" first, and only once you have absorbed that, turn to this beautifully detailed book for a much closer look at the subject. The chapters on Vision by Clay Reid and the Hearing chapters by Brown in this book are quite simply and without a doubt among the best textbook chapters on these topics anywhere, (and much better than anything you will find in Kandel!)
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