Brain Architecture

Name: Brain Architecture
Brand: OUP USA
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Larry W. Swanson(Autor*in)

OUP USA (Verlag)

Erschienen am 15. August 2011

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Cover
Contents
Preface to the First Edition
1. Thinking about the Brain: Body and Mind
2. How the Brain Works: History, Structure, and Function
Three Biological Perspectives
3. The Simplest Nervous Systems: Neurons, Nerve Nets, and Behavior
Unicellular Organisms: Behaviors Essential for Survival
Animals without Neurons: Independent Effectors
The First Nervous System: Hydra's Body and Behavior
Sensory Neurons: Functional Polarity of Dendrites and Axon
Motor Neurons: A Second Distinct Neuron Type
Nerve Nets: Amacrine Extensions and Activity Patterns
Interneurons: Sign Switchers and Pattern Generators
Overview: Evolution of Architecture, Not Building Blocks
4. Centralization and Symmetry: Ganglia and Nerves
Flatworms: Bilaterally Symmetrical Predators
Segmented Worms: Inner Ventral Nerve Cord
More Evolved Invertebrates
Overview: Polarity, Regionalization, Bilateral Symmetry, Segments
5. The Basic Vertebrate Plan: Transverse Divisions
Embryological Perspectives
Earliest Stages of Mammalian Development
Neural Plate: Central Nervous System Divisions
Neural Tube: Transverse Brain Divisions
Neural Crest and Placodes: Peripheral Nervous System
Overview
6. Neurogenesis: Longitudinal Divisions, Parts List, and Adult Flatmap
Generating Neuron Types: Longitudinal Central Nervous System Divisions
Generating Gray Matter Regions
Macroconnections, Mesoconnections, and Microconnections
A Nervous System Flatmap for Mammals
Overview: Parts of the Nervous System
7. Brain and Behavior: A Four Systems Network Model
Reflex and Voluntary Control of Behavior
Behavioral State Control
Feedback
Topography versus Systems
Overview: Defining Each System
8. The Motor System: Coordinating External and Internal Behaviors
Motor Neuron Varieties
Introduction to the Somatic Motor System: Flexion
Distribution of Somatic Motor Neuron Pools
Central Pattern Generators-Sets of Motor Neuron Pools
Pattern Initiators and Controllers: Drive and Motivation
The Autonomic Motor System
The Neuroendocrine Motor System
The Cerebellum: Motor Coordination and Learning
Overview: Integration within and between Motor Systems
9. The Behavioral State System: Intrinsic Control of Sleep and Wakefulness
Circadian Rhythms: The Day-Night Cycle
Reproductive Cycles
Sleep-Wake Cycles
Modulating Behavioral State
10. The Cognitive System: Thinking and Voluntary Control of Behavior
Cerebral Cortex Regionalization
Cortical Cellular Organization
Cortical Outputs
The Cerebral Nuclei
Triple Caudal (Descending) Projection from Cerebrum
11. The Sensory System: Inputs from Environment and Body
Evolution and Development of Sensory Neurons
Overview of Sensory Neurons
Overview of Sensory Pathways
Forebrain Sensory Systems: Olfactory, Visual, Humoral, and Osmotic
Ganglion Cell Sensory Systems: Submodalities
Affect: Pain and Pleasure, Emotion, and Mood
12. Modifiability: Learning, Stress, Cycles, and Damage Repair
Learning: Changing Synaptic Strength
Stress: Biochemical Switching
Cycles: Circadian and Reproductive
Damage Repair: Regrowth
13. Genome and Connectome
Appendix A. Describing Position in the Animal Body
Appendix B. Naming and Classifying Nervous System Parts
Appendix C. Methods for Analyzing Brain Architecture
Epigraphs
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