Designed to help you comprehend and retain the challenging material you need to know, Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications, 6th Edition, covers the essential neuroscience information needed for coursework, exams, and beyond. Using a rigorous yet clinically-focused approach, it integrates neuroanatomy, pharmacology, and physiology, with separate sections devoted to essential concepts, regional neurobiology, and systems neurobiology.
- Begins with the basic concepts that are needed to understand neuroscience at a fundamental level, followed by regional coverage designed to help prepare you for examinations, and ending with a full section on systems neurobiology as you enter the clinical phase of your education.
- Contains new end-of-chapter review questions, as well as thoroughly updated information in every chapter, with an emphasis on new clinical thinking as related to the brain and systems neurobiology.
- Features hundreds of correlated state-of-the-art imaging examples, anatomical diagrams, and histology photos.
- Pays special attention to the correct use of clinical and anatomical terminology, and provides clinical text and clinical-anatomical correlations.
- An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text and figures, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.
Table of Contents
1 Orientation to the Structure and Imaging of the Central Nervous System2 The Cell Biology of Neurons and Glia
3 The Electrochemical Basis of Nerve Function
4 Chemical Signaling in the Nervous System
5 Development of the Nervous System
6 The Ventricles, Choroid Plexus, and Cerebrospinal Fluid
7 The Meninges
8 A Survey of the Cerebrovascular System
9 The Spinal Cord
10 An Overview of the Brainstem
11 The Medulla Oblongata
12 The Pons and Cerebellum
13 The Midbrain
14 A Synopsis of Cranial Nerves of the Brainstem
15 The Diencephalon
16 The Telencephalon
17 The Somatosensory System I: Tactile Discrimination and Position Sense
18 The Somatosensory System II: Nociception, Thermal Sense, and Touch
19 Viscerosensory Pathways
20 The Visual System
21 The Auditory System
22 The Vestibular System
23 Olfaction and Taste
24 Motor System I: Peripheral Sensory, Brainstem, and Spinal Influence on Anterior Horn Neurons
25 Motor System II: Corticofugal Systems and the Control of Movement
26 The Basal Nuclei
27 The Cerebellum
28 Visual Motor Systems
29 Visceral Motor Pathways
30 The Hypothalamus
31 The Limbic System
32 The Cerebral Cortex
33 The Neurologic Examination
