Neuroscience is a comprehensive textbook created primarily for medical, premedical, and undergraduate students. In a single concise and approachable volume, the text guides students through the challenges and excitement of this rapidly changing field. The book s length and accessibility of its writing are a successful combination that has proven to work equally well for medical students and in undergraduate neuroscience courses. Being both comprehensive and authoritative, the book is also appropriate for graduate and professional use.
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Neuroscience is a remarkably well-organized and well-written text. It is highly accessible and easy to follow, which is impressive given the amount of detail and depth it provides. Each step of the way, explanations of complex concepts are accompanied by easy-to-follow graphics that on the one hand enhance deep understanding, and, on the other, make it easy to even just browse or skim. The book does an excellent job of bridging between molecular and molar levels of analysis, between basic and clinical science, and between the big picture and discrete detail. In other words, it keeps you grounded and allows you to understand how basic processes relate to cognition, emotion, and behavior, as well as to various forms of dysfunction. ... I am definitely keeping a copy of Neuroscience on my desk, along with Lezak et al., Strauss et al., and all the other classics. --Yana Suchy, JINS
As is the tradition with this book, current neuroanatomical and neurophysiological concepts are explained in detail and fully illustrated. The addition of current concepts on neuroplasticity and behavior, as well as the web resources, significantly enrich this edition. This is a worthy and affordable book for neuroscience students. ... An excellent contribution to the study of neuroscience, deserving of its place in neurology, neurosurgery, and neurosciences libraries. --Celso Agner, Doody's Book Review
As is the tradition with this book, current neuroanatomical and neurophysiological concepts are explained in detail and fully illustrated. The addition of current concepts on neuroplasticity and behavior, as well as the web resources, significantly enrich this edition. This is a worthy and affordable book for neuroscience students. ... An excellent contribution to the study of neuroscience, deserving of its place in neurology, neurosurgery, and neurosciences libraries. --Celso Agner, Doody's Book Review
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DALE PURVES, M.D. Duke University, USA GEORGE J. AUGUSTINE, Ph.D. Duke University, USA DAVID FITZPATRICK, Ph.D. Duke University, USA WILLIAM C. HALL ANTHONY-SAMUEL LAMANTIA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill JAMES O. MCNAMARA, Duke University, USA LEONARD E. WHITE, Duke University, USA
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The reason that this reader was dissatisfied with the book was not because it was a bad book, but because he picked up the wrong book for what he was interested in, namely cellular/molecular neuroscience, which this book is clearly not about. I regard this book more of a systems-based approach to neuroscience - the book attempts to give you a "gestalt" view of how the different functional subsystems work. For a more basic text, I'd advise you to read Bear's Neuroscience. For a more reductionist text, maybe you could read something like "From the Neuron to the Brain"
Oh, and I forgot to add, this is an excellent book for the purpose for which it was written.
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An excellent neuroscience text,
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While taking neurobiology as a graduate student I used this text to supplement Principles of Neural Science. While I read Principles and enjoyed it, I used Neuroscience to study for course exams and my departmental preliminary examination. The writing is clear, concise, and very to the point. Unlike Principles, experimental studies underlying the facts are not described in as much detail in Neuroscience (this presentation of information is better when you want to get to the core of what you need to know). While many new texts like to go into heavy detail about new drug and genetic manipulations for neurological and psychological disorders, speculations in Neuroscience about such "up to the minute" information is kept to a minimum. The messages of the wonderful color illustrations accompanying the text are easy to grasp (they serve their purpose very well). An excellent upper level undergraduate or graduate level neuroscience text. Very good for a concise review of the information.
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Excellent! Accessible, great graphics, good organization.,
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This review is from: Neuroscience (Book with CD-ROM) (Hardcover)
As an undergraduate Psychobiology student, this text served me well in my Neuroscience course. In all honesty I never went. I just read this book. I got excellent marks in the class. As a serious slacker and bibliophile, I recommend this textbook for any like-minded student.
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visceral motor system, ventral posterior complex, motor neuron circuits, odorant receptor molecules, descending upper motor neuron pathways, postsynaptic muscle cell, central visual structures, visceral motor neurons, visceral motor function, visceral pain pathway, upper motor neuron control, cerebellar nuclear cells, mechanosensory information, somatic sensory system, anterior subventricular zone, odorant receptor genes, passive current flow, visceral motor activity, mechanosensory receptors, primary somatic sensory cortex, visceral sensory information, axons carrying information, somatic sensory receptors, parvocellular streams, neurotrophic interactions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, Additional Reading Reviews, Brain Res, Important Original Papers, Sinauer Associates, Trends Neurosci, United States, Nature Neurosci, Academic Press, Cambridge University Press, Scientific American Library, American Physiological Society, Harvard University Press, Left Right, Cell Biol, Raven Press, Nature Rev, Contralateral Ipsilateral, Harvard Medical School, Mosby Year Book, University of California, Birth Exp, Blackwell Scientific, California Institute of Technology New!
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- Eye, Brain, and Vision (Scientific American Library) by David H. Hubel on 4 pages
- Adams & Victor's Principles Of Neurology by Maurice Victor on page 66, page 391, and page 767
- Nervous System (Monographs on Pathology of Laboratory Animals) by Thomas C. Jones on page 467, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Radiographic Anatomy, Positioning and Procedures Workbook: Volume 1, 3e by Steven G. Hayes Sr. MEd BSRT RT on page 28, page 761, and page 773
- Nerve and Muscle (Studies in Biology) by R. D. Keynes on page 46, page 67, and page 91
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