Foundations of Neural Development is a textbook written with a conversational writing style and topics appropriate for an undergraduate audience. Each chapter begins with a thought-provoking vignette, or a "real-life story," that the subsequent material illuminates. The "Researchers at Work" feature, available in every chapter, describes a classic study in detail, taking the reader through the hypothesis, test, result, and conclusion of an experiment. A marginal glossary, review questions, and visual summary are a few of the other features in the book. Lively and engaging, with the finest illustrations, Foundations of Neural Development is the perfect book to help any undergraduate student understand how a single microscopic cell, a human zygote, can develop into the most complex machine on earth, the brain.
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Easy to read, thorough, beautiful figures, focuses on scientific process as well as content in a very undergrad-appropriate level. * Stephanie Fretham, Luther College, IA * [Foundations of Neural Development] balances a conversational tone with evidence-based explanations. This is the ONLY textbook on neurodevelopment that contains a mix of approaches for neurodevelopment. * Elizabeth Dudkin, Penn State University, PA * The learning objectives within the chapters are well written, clear, learner centered, and measurable. The extensive references to the primary research literature are helpful, and so
important as a demonstration to students for how to write a review of the literature. * Patrick Cafferty, Emory University, GA * I love this text book; it's the only one I have opted to require for courses I teach. * Mary Holschbach, NSU Florida, FL * Every semester, I have students who say [Foundations of Neural Development] is their favorite textbook of all their science courses they've had in college. It's wonderful. * David Ladle, Wright State University, OH *
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978-0-19-776402-2 (9780197764022)
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S. Marc Breedlove, the Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience at Michigan State University, has written more than 130 scientific articles investigating the role of hormones in shaping the developing and adult nervous system, publishing in journals including Science, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He is also passionate about teaching--in the classroom, and in the greater
community through interviews with the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Newsweek, as well as broadcast programs including All Things Considered, Good Morning America, and Sixty Minutes. He has active grant support
from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Breedlove is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Psychological Science.
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Barnett Rosenberg Professor of NeuroscienceBarnett Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience, Michigan State University
Prologue: The Rationalist Philosophers
1. The Metazoans' Dilemma: Cell Differentiation and Neural Induction
2. Coordinating Fates: Development of a Body Pattern
3. Upward Mobility: Neurogenesis and Migration
4. Seeking Identity: Neural Differentiation
5. Feeling One's Way: Axonal Pathfinding
6. Making Connections: Synapse Formation and Maturation
7. Accepting Mortality: Apoptosis
8. Distant Voices: Hormonally Guided Neural Development
9. Expanding Your Worldview: Activity and Experience-Guided Neural Development
10. Investing in the Next Generation: Socially Guided Neural Development
Epilogue: Immanuel Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason
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