Brain Architecture
Published on 15. August 2011
348 pages
978-0-19-970277-0 (ISBN)
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Now in its second edition, Brain Architecture is the continued exploration of how the brain works. It summarizes traditional views about brain structure-function organization clearly and comprehensively and elaborates a new four system network model of nervous system organization. Thoroughly updated and refreshingly clear, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the science of how the brain works.
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10/2011
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Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,USA
Content
- 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
- Glossary
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