Brain Architecture
Understanding the Basic Plan
1st Edition
Published on 12. December 2002
282 pages
978-0-19-802646-4 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- 1. How the Brain Works: Structure and Function
- Three Biological Perspectives
- 2. 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
- Motoneurons: Another Distinct Neuronal Type
- Nerve Nets: Amacrine Processes and Activity Patterns
- Intemeurons: Sign Switchers and Pattern Generators
- Overview: Evolution of Architecture, Not Building Blocks
- 3. Centralization and Symmetry: Ganglia and Nerves
- Flatworms: Bilaterally Symmetrical Predators
- Segmented Worms: Internal Ventral Nerve Cord
- More Evolved Invertebrates
- Overview: Polarity, Regionalization, Bilateral Symmetry, Segments
- 4. The Basic Vertebrate Plan: Nervous System Topology
- Embryological Perspectives
- Earliest Stages of Mammalian Development
- Neural Plate: Brain and Spinal Cord
- Neural Tube: Transverse Brain Divisions
- Neural Crest and Placodes: Peripheral Nervous System
- Generating Neuronal Cell Types and Groups: Longitudinal Brain Divisions
- A Nervous System Fate Map
- Overview: Parts of the Nervous System
- 5. 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
- 6. The Motor System: Coordinating External and Internal Behaviors
- Motoneuron Classes
- Introduction to the Somatomotor System: Flexion
- Distribution of Somatomotor Neuron Pools
- Central Pattern Generators: Sets of Motoneuron 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
- 7. The Behavioral State System: Intrinsic Control of Sleep and Wakefulness
- Circadian Rhythms: The Day-Night Cycle
- Reproductive Cycles
- Sleep-Wake Cycles
- Modulating Behavioral State
- 8. The Cognitive System: Thinking and Voluntary Control of Behavior
- Cerebral Cortex Regionalization
- Cortical Cellular Organization
- Cortical Projections
- The Cerebral Nuclei
- Triple Descending Projection from Cerebrum
- 9. The Sensory System: Inputs from the Environment and the 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
- 10. Modifiability: Learning, Stress, Cycles, and Damage Repair
- Learning: Changing Synaptic Strength
- Stress: Biochemical Switching
- Cycles: Circadian and Reproductive
- Damage Repair: Regrowth
- 11. Gene Networks: Relationship to Neural Networks
- Appendices
- A. Describing Position in the Animal Body
- B. Naming and Classifying Nervous System Parts
- C. Methods for Analyzing Brain Architecture
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