Fundamental Neuroscience CD-ROM [CD-ROM]

Michael J. Zigmond (Editor), Floyd E. Bloom (Editor), Story C. Landis (Editor), James L. Roberts (Editor), Larry R. Squire (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1999 | ISBN-10: 012780871X | ISBN-13: 978-0127808710 | Edition: Cdr

The Fundamental Neuroscience book is the only comprehensive text that defines the full scope of neuroscience.
This CD-ROM contains all of the high-quality, color illustrations from the book--nearly 1000 in all--making them accessible as electronic slides and available for handouts and other uses. The CD-ROM is an ideal tool for enhancing presentations and courses based on material in the book.

Key Features
* Ideal tool to accompany the Fundamental Neuroscience book
* Contains all of the nearly 1000 four-color illustrations from the text
* Useful for presentations and course instruction
* Images are organized by chapter and figure number

Editorial Reviews

Review

Reviews of the Fundamental Neuroscience book:
"Neuroscience is a broad field built upon concerted activities of numerous heterogeneous disciplines, and continuous efforts of integration are imperative. Fundamental Neuroscience represents such efforts and helps readers to comprehend the whole scope of neuroscience, a field which is rapidly growing in many directions, including clinical research and application."
--MASAO ITO, Riken Brain Science Institute

From the Back Cover

The third edition of Fundamental Neuroscience reinvents itself as an engrossing and comprehensive presentation of the discipline of neuroscience, from molecules to cognition. Thorough but succinct, and lavishly illustrated, the book builds from an introductory section that includes fundamental neuroanatomy and goes on to cover cellular and molecular neuroscience, development, sensory systems, motor systems, regulatory systems, and closes with a section on behavioral and cognitive neuroscience. More concise and manageable than the previous edition, this book has been retooled to better serve its audience in the neuroscience and medical communities.

The chapters include boxes describing clinical conditions associated with each topic, rather than separately covering clinical issues outside the subject matter in which they arise. Each chapter went through a thorough review process, giving the book an evenness of tone. The chapters are authored by outstanding working scientists who are experts on the topics they cover.

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Product Details

• CD-ROM
• Publisher: Academic Press; Cdr edition (May 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 012780871X
• ISBN-13: 978-0127808710
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,944,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best advanced text on the market, October 6, 2005

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Jan W. H. Schnupp (Oxford, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamental Neuroscience, Second Edition (Hardcover)

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 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 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!)

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Fundamental!, April 22, 2001

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K. Michailidis (Thessaloniki, Greece) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamental Neuroscience (Hardcover)

I was rather lucky to take my chances and go-for-a-buy for this title instead of the much more cited "Kandel-Fourth Edition"... The book is really awesome, well-written and edited, with many good first-time-seen illustrations. It spans the whole field of contemporary Neuroscience (from biochemical to cognitive and clinical) with extreme efficacy and reference. The authors did a great job integrating the contents of each section with clarifying examples and extensive references, making it ideal even for new-comers. As a medical student with research interests in this vast field, I was very pleased with my decision to buy this textbook.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful review of neuroscience., December 13, 1999

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Silent Abstraction - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fundamental Neuroscience (Hardcover)

To me as bibliophiliac and a cognitive psychologist interested in neurobiology, this is the textbook of choice and an object of desire. It is very up-to-date and well-written. Although some people have detected some lack of coherence in this work, I find it refreshing that the sections recognizably come from different research teams with somewhat different points of emphasis, but without anyone pushing his own scientific interests on the expense of those of the readers. This also guarantees that it is not only an accumulation of facts but has also interesting theoretical discussions by leading researchers. It is optimal for readers having at least some laypeople knowledge about biology, medicine, or neuroscience, and just want to know more (possibly everything), or who require a thorough and citable review of a certain topic. Readers completely new to the field may find it difficult to pick out the information suited for a beginner level - a less voluminous book would be more helpful for them. I would rather not recommend it for undergraduates courses. I would also prefer a somewhat stronger emphasis on cognitive neuroscience - after all, a few hundred pages more would do no harm...!