Clear and easy-to-read, this modern textbook of cellular and molecular neurobiology deals with synaptic function and plasticity, the reception and transduction of sensory stimuli, neuromodulation, neural networks, and learning and memory, among other topics. Ion channels are discussed in detail. The book is divided into three sections: Electrical Properties of Neurons, Intercellular Communication, and Behavior and Plasticity. The text is intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students of neuroscience and medicine.
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"The text is impressively modern, with up-to-date information on the trendiest areas of neurobiology. The book is highly visual, with figures on virtually every page. The figures deserve special comment because they are a teacher's dream: simple and uncluttered, but conceptually powerful. Frankly, although the recommendation is often abused, The Neuron is one of those books that really do belong on every shelf."--Nature
"The authors have produced an extremely well integrated, highly readable, soft-cover volume which can introduce students of neuroscience into the field and graduates into a refresher and review on recent developments in a most readable and logical progression....Interspersed with wisdom."--Journal of the Neurological Sciences
"The authors have risen to the challenge of distillation in this contemporary and useful book. This is a first rate textbook for a course in cellular neurobiology for upper-level university students. The students appreciated the consistent clarity and the uniformity of style. The illustrations are highly conceptual and were easily understood. The up-to-date presentation of many exciting recent findings is a great strength. The authors have contributed a monograph devoted to this subject that is a handy primer for many, and a reference volume for others and their research has contributed significantly to our current understanding."--The Quarterly Review of Biology
"Very well written...This book will be of use in enlightening even senior specialists not directly related to the field such as pathologists and non-neurobiologists...beautifully illustrated....A must for every teaching and research laboratory."--Cell Biology International Reports
"...this [is] an outstanding, easily readable, and quite up-to-date overview of fundamental neurobiology."--Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences "In the summary, this is a superbly written and well-illustated text covering all the major aspects of neuroscientific knowledge....Regardless of the state of knowledge or the specific expertise of the reader, every neuroscientist should keep a copy handy."--om the "Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Vol. 24, no.4, 1999)." well-illustrated text covering all the major --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"The text is impressively modern, with up-to-date information on the trendiest areas of neurobiology. The book is highly visual, with figures on virtually every page. The figures deserve special comment because they are a teacher's dream: simple and uncluttered, but conceptually powerful. Frankly, although the recommendation is often abused, The Neuron is one of those books that really do belong on every shelf."--Nature
"The authors have produced an extremely well integrated, highly readable, soft-cover volume which can introduce students of neuroscience into the field and graduates into a refresher and review on recent developments in a most readable and logical progression....Interspersed with wisdom."--Journal of the Neurological Sciences
"The authors have risen to the challenge of distillation in this contemporary and useful book. This is a first rate textbook for a course in cellular neurobiology for upper-level university students. The students appreciated the consistent clarity and the uniformity of style. The illustrations are highly conceptual and were easily understood. The up-to-date presentation of many exciting recent findings is a great strength. The authors have contributed a monograph devoted to this subject that is a handy primer for many, and a reference volume for others and their research has contributed significantly to our current understanding."--The Quarterly Review of Biology
"Very well written...This book will be of use in enlightening even senior specialists not directly related to the field such as pathologists and non-neurobiologists...beautifully illustrated....A must for every teaching and research laboratory."--Cell Biology International Reports
"...this [is] an outstanding, easily readable, and quite up-to-date overview of fundamental neurobiology."--Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences "In the summary, this is a superbly written and well-illustated text covering all the major aspects of neuroscientific knowledge....Regardless of the state of knowledge or the specific expertise of the reader, every neuroscientist should keep a copy handy."--om the "Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (Vol. 24, no.4, 1999)." well-illustrated text covering all the major --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Irwin B. Levitan, Ph.D., is the Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University. Leonard K. Kaczmarek, Ph.D., is Professor of Pharmacology and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and Chairman of the Pharmacology Department at Yale University School of Medicine.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Very readable,
By K. W. "pianowizard" (Providence, RI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology (Paperback)
I have compared several neurobiology textbooks and this one is my favorite. It's almost like a novel, very enjoyable. It emphasizes understanding of important concepts rather than throwing an overwhelming amount of facts at the students. And the organization of the material is great. There is an updated edition now, and I look forward to reading it.
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Neuron details,
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This review is from: The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology (Paperback)
The molecular biology of the neuron is considered, from its electrical properties, synapses, differentiation, axon pathfinding, to chapters concluding with behavior and memory. Well written and includes easy to follow schematic diagrams, this reference is suitable for the motivated general reader.
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A beautiful text,
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This review is from: The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology (Paperback)
This is one of the few molecular neurobiology textbooks available to the serious student. Overall, it is a very well written text, up to date, and quite detailed. There is one weird quality about the book, however: the authors have not directly referenced statements in the book, as you would expect to find in any good advanced textbook in a scholarly field. They have instead written a bibliography at the very end, consisting of "Recommended Reading" and "References" for each chapter. I am unsure what criteria they used to differentiate the two. Other than this minor point however, it's a first rate buy. The authors deserve several pats on their backs.
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detached membrane patches, bag cell neurons, ion channel whose activity, neuronal electrical properties, endogenous electrical activity, neural inducers, specialized membrane proteins, small synaptic vesicles, axonal plasma membrane, olfactory receptor proteins, auxiliary subunits, sodium equilibrium potential, other neurotrophins, ion channel modulation, sodium channel inactivation, passive spread, many ion channels, ion channel properties, different ion channels, giant synapse, intrinsic excitability, neuronal electrical activity, electrical synapses, synaptic proteins, neuronal plasma membrane Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes (3rd Edition) by Bertil Hille in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Neuronal and Cellular Oscillators by Jon W. Jacklet in Back Matter
- The Nervous System (Programmed Approach to Anatomy and Physiology) by Robert J. Brady in Back Matter
- Nerve, Muscle and Synapse (McGraw-Hill Series in the New Biology) by B. Katz in Back Matter
- Principles of Neural Development by Dale Purves in Back Matter
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- Clinical Neuroanatomy by Stephen Waxman on page 18, and page 34
- The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication, and the Foundations of Life by Werner R. Loewenstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Genetic Programming: 9th European Conference, EuroGP 2006, Budapest, Hungary, April 10-12, 2006. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues) by Pierre Collet on page 96
- Neural Network Perspectives on Cognition & Adaptive Robotics by A Browne in Back Matter
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