In terms of breadth, depth, and originality, this work ranked Cajal with Pasteur and Darwin as giants of 19th century biology. Summarizing almost 20 years of intense research, Cajal systematically described the cellular organization of almost every part of the nervous system in all five classes of vertebrate, and provided a synthetic account of their embryogenesis as well. This revolutionary work laid a broad foundation for modern neuroscience.
Neuroscientists, neurologists, psychologists, computer and cognitive scientists, and nonspecialists will find this work of great use. Modern neuroanatomical terminology is used wherever possible, while attempting to preserve the style of the original text. Summarizing almost 20 years of intense research, Cajal systematically described the cellular organization of almost every part of the nervous system in all five classes of vertebrate, and provided a synthetic account of their embryogenesis as well. This work was revolutionary and laid a broad foundation for modern neuroscience because two new concepts - the neuron doctrine and the law of functional polarity - were used to interpret the data, and because the resulting interpretations opened vast new fields of research with profound clinical implications in neurology and psychiatry. In terms of breadth, depth and originality, this work is second only to that of Vesalius in the history of anatomy, and ranked Cajal with Pasteur and Darwin as the giants of 19th century biology. In many ways, the Histology is as valuable today as when it was written, and these volumes will be of use to a broad spectrum of neuroscientists, neurologists, psychologists, and computer and cognitive scientists. To make this work accessible to non specialists, the translators have used modern neuroanatomical terminology wherever possible, while attempting to preserve the style of the original text. They have also provided extensive cross-referencing of synonyms in the index, and notes to clarify difficult passages.
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Now that Cajal's great French classic from 1911 is available in a fine, fluent English translation, it should attract many to the text; not only to look at the illustrations and beyond to the passionately detailed descriptions, but also to savour the picturesque, and often belligerent, style in which Cajal describes the nervous system and some of its discoverers ... it is a book in which to gain an intimate acquaintance with an extraordinarily gifted, dedicated and original mind whose total involvement with the discovery, details and development of neurohistology and, perhaps most importantly, its functional interpretation, is communicated with clarity and excitement. * R.W. Guillery, Dept of Human Anatomy, Oxford, TINS, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1996 *
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numerous line and halftone figures
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Höhe: 218 mm
Breite: 274 mm
Dicke: 51 mm
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978-0-19-507401-7 (9780195074017)
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Psychology and Neurology; and Director, Neurobiology ProgramProfessor of Biological Sciences, Psychology and Neurology; and Director, Neurobiology Program, University of Southern California
VOLUME I
General Principles
1: Basic Plan of the Nervous System
2: Research Methods and Major Results
3: Neurons: Size and General Morphology
4: The Connections and Comparative Morphology of Neurons
5: Functional Implications of Neuronal Morphology and Connections
6: Fine Structure of the Neuron
7: Variations in the Structure and Shape of Neurons Under Normal and Pathological Conditions and the Functional Implications of Such Variations
8: Neuroglia
9: Nerve Fibers
Spinal Cord
10: The Spinal Cord
11: Structure of Spinal White Matter
12: Structure of the Gray Matter
13: Commissural and Funicular Neurons
14: Arrangement of Funicular Neurons in Various Parts of the Gray Matter
15: Extraspinal Neurons with an Axon in the Cord
16: The Peripheral Endings of Spinal Ganglion Cells
17: The Central Process of Spinal Ganglion Cells
18: Glia of the Spinal Gray Matter
19: Functional Implications Arising From New Concepts About the Structure of the Spinal Cord
20: Comparative Histology of the Spinal Cord
21: Histogenesis of the Spinal Cord and Spinal Ganglia
Medulla and Pons
22: The Medulla
23: Internal Structure of the Medulla
24: General Features of the Medulla Hypoglossal Nucleus
25: The Accessory Spinal or XIth Cranial Nerve
26: The Vagus and Glossopharyngeal or IXth and Xth Cranial Nerves
27: The Vestibulocochlear Nerve: Vestibular Nerve
28: The Vestibulocochlear Nerve: Cochlear Branch or Nerve
29: The Facial or VIIth Cranial Nerve
30: The Abducens or VIth Cranial Nerve
31: The Trigeminal or Vth Cranial Nerve
32: Neuronal Pathways of the Medulla and Associated Nuclei
33: Medullary Extension of the Spinal Ventral Funiculus
34: The Lateral Funiculus and Its Medullary Nuclei
35: Intrinsic Pathways and Nuclei of the Medulla
36: The Pons
VOLUME II
The Cerebellum
1: The Cerebellar Cortex
2: The Granular Layer
3: Cerebellar White Matter and Glia
4: Comparative Histology of the Cerebellar Cortex
5: Cerebellar Histogenesis
6: Deep Cerebellar Nuclei
7: Cerebellar Peduncles
The Midbrain
8: The Inferior Colliculus
9: The Superior Colliculus
10: The Optic Lobe of Lower Vertebrates
11: The Tegmental or Intermediate Region of the Midbrain
12: Tegmental Region (Continued)
13: Ventral Regions of the Midbrain
Diencephalon
14: The Thalamus and Its Nuclei
15: Visual Apparatus Retina or Receptor Organ for Visual Stimuli
16: The Retina (Continued): The Retina of Other Vertebrates
17: The Optic Nerve, Chiasm, and Tract
18: The Lateral Geniculate Body and Pulvinar
19: Thalamus (Continued)
20: Thalamus (Continued): Medial Nuclei
21: Hypothalamic Region and Its Nuclei
22: Diencephalon (Continued)
23: The Corpus Striatum
Cerebral Cortex
24: General Structure of the Cerebral Cortex
25: Regions of the Cerebral Cortex: Visual Cortex
26: Auditory Cortex
27: Motor or Somatosensory-Motor Cortex
28: Olfactory Apparatus: Olfactory Mucosa and Olfactory Bulb or First-Order Olfactory Centers
29: Secondary and Tertiary Olfactory Centers
30: Pathways From the Temporal Olfactory Cortex
31: Fourth-Order Olfactory Areas Ammon's Horn and the Dentate Gyrus
32: Afferent and Efferent Projections of Ammon's Horn and the Dentate Gyrus
33: Cingulate Cortex and Cingulum
34: Comparative Structure of the Cerebral Cortex
35: Histogenesis of the Cerebral Cortex
36: Structure-Function Relationships in the Cortex
Autonomic Nervous System
37: Autonomic Nervous System
