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Essential neuroscience

Offers medical and health professions students a text that gives equal weight to the branches of science represented within neuroscience including anatomy, physiology, biology, and chemistry
Print Book, English, ©2006
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, ©2006
syllabi
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
9780781750776, 9780781791212, 0781750776, 0781791219
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Overview of the central nervous system
Development of the nervous system
Meninges and cerebrospinal fluid
Blood supply of the central nervous system
Histology of the nervous system
Electrophysiology of neurons
Synaptic transmission
Neurotransmitters
The spinal cord
Brainstem I: the medulla
Brainstem II: pons and cerebellum
Brainstem III: the midbrain
The forebrain
The cranial nerves
Somatosensory system
Visual system
Auditory and vestibular systems
Olfaction and taste
The upper motor neurons
The basal ganglia
The cerebellum
The autonomic nervous system
The reticular formation
The hypothalamus
The limbic system
The thalamus and cerebral cortex
Vascular syndromes
Behavioral and psychiatric disorders
Includes index