Neuroscience / Dale Purves
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- xvii, ill. ; 29 cm.
Unit I. Neural signaling. Electrical signals of nerve cells -- Voltage-dependent membrane permeability -- Ion channels and transporters -- Synaptic transmission -- Neurotransmitters and their receptors -- Molecular signaling with neurons -- Synaptic plasticity -- Unit II. Sensation and sensory processing. The somatosensory system: touch and proprioception -- Pain -- Vision: the eye -- Central visual pathways -- The auditory system -- The vestibular system -- The chemical senses -- Unit III. Movement and its central control. Lower motor neuron circuits and motor control -- Upper motor neuron control of the brainstem and spinal cord -- Modulation of movement by the basal ganglia -- Modulation of movement by the cerebellum -- Eye movements and sensorimotor integration -- The visceral motor system -- Unit IV. The changing brain. Early brain development -- Construction of neural circuits -- Circuit development: intrinsic factors and sex differences -- Experience-dependent plasticity in the developing brain -- Repair and regeneration in the nervous system -- Unit V. Complex brain functions and cognitive neuroscience. Cognitive functions and the organization of the cerebral cortex -- Cortical states -- Attention -- Memory -- Emotion -- Thinking, planning, and deciding -- Speech and language -- Development and evolution of cognitive functions.
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