Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, 3rd Edition 3rd Edition

I never knew it was possible to love a textbook before

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Stephen Miller

December 28, 2016

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I never knew it was possible to love a textbook before! I got both the Kindle version and the paper version. The Kindle version is amazing with the easy searching and the X-ray flashcards. The book itself is great as well. Instead of just presenting the brain as a giant wiring diagram, it does a good job of bringing in the psychological concepts associated with each area. The questions at the end of each chapter, with the answers available online, were a tremendous help as well.

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It's a great book for general neuroscience courses

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Emma C

June 20, 2016

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Neuroscience is my future career, and I absolutely value this book. It explains the brain amazingly well for those unfamiliar with the details. Figures and illustrations are fabulous. The text is clear, concise, and thorough. I t always kept my attention while reading. It's a great book for general neuroscience courses! I plan to keep it on my bookshelf for a while!

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Douglas Long

Excellent Undergrad Text

October 12, 2008

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Overall this is an excellent text for an undergraduate level course. It is the 3rd book on the subject that I've read and the best of the lot. It is much more conprehensive than the others, but does not get into the details of some graduate level books.

The content deserves a 5 star, but I gave it 4 stars overall because of a couple shortcomings. The graphics don't convey the 3 dimensionality of the anatomy. All of my anatomy texts do a far better job representing internal structures, and this becomes extremely important.

2nd, there are some areas overemphasized, some omissions, and a problem with the order of presentation. The chapter on attention tells me that one of the authors researches in this area. Sorry, it doesn't warrant a chapter. You know you're on the wrong track when you spend an entire page just explaining the minutiae of a single experiment. Second, there was no mention of intelligence. Yes it's a hotbutton issue. No excuse for ignoring it. Finally, issues were raised, such as fear or emotions, that use the same structure. It would be helpful to discuss the anatomy in more detail early on instead of introducing structures piecemeal.

Overall an excellent book.

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Impressive and comprehensive

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R. Terry

January 25, 2017

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The first soup to nuts neuroscience text I've owned so I'm not qualified to rank this book among it's competing volumes. But from reader experience it is highly approachable in it's explanations. It has well crafted prose and high quality graphics. Glad I made the purchase.

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How the neuron work and behavior in humans

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