Perspectives in Brain Research
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published on 22. September 2011
486 pages
978-0-08-086170-8 (ISBN)
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- Front Cover
- Perspectives in Brain Research
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Session I: Prologue
- Chapter 1. A Glance at Some Problems Facing Brain Research Today
- Chapter 2. Neurobiology in Statu Nascendi
- Chapter 3. Are Invertebrate Nervous Systems Good Models for the Functional Organization of the Brain?
- Session II: Brain as a Tissue
- Chapter 4. Tissue fractionation methods in brain research
- Chapter 5. Functional biochemistry of neurons and glial cells
- Chapter 6. Plastic changes of neurons during acquisition of new behavior as a problem of protein differentiation
- Chapter 7. Molecular neuropathology
- Session III: Brain-Hormone Interactions
- Chpater 8. Neurosecretion - comparative and evolutionary aspects
- Chpater 9. Hormones and brain development
- Chpater 10. The molecules of neurosecretion: their formation, transport and release
- Chpater 11. Vasopressin and memory consolidation
- Session IV: The Brain as a Structural System
- Chpater 12. Real neural networks
- Chpater 13. Problems of understanding the substructure of synapses
- Chpater 14. The nerve growth factor: its role in growth, differentiation and function of the sympathetic adrenergic neuron
- Chpater 15. Neuronal circuitry and its development
- Session V: The Brain as a Functional System
- Chpater 16. Models of neuronal populations: the basic mechanisms of rhythmicity
- Chpater 17. Organization of spontaneous electrical activity in the neocortex
- Chpater 18. The formation of continuously ordered mappings
- Chpater 19. Plasticity in the adult mammalian central nervous system
- Session VI: Neural Control of Behavior
- Chpater 20. Rhythmic phenomena in prenatal life
- Chpater 21. EEG and behavior
- Chpater 22. Brain stimulation and the motivation of behavior
- Chpater 23. On drive, conflict and instinct, and the functional organization of behavior
- Session VII: Epilogue
- Chpater 24. The brain as a functional entity
- Chpater 25. A unifying approach to mind and brain: ten year perspective
- Chpater 26. The nature of consciousness: some persistent conceptual difficulties and a practical suggestion
- Subject Index
