Main description:

A NEW core textbook on neuroscience with a uniquely clinical focus and hundreds of full-color illustrations

Developed by an exciting author team composed of University of California-San Francisco faculty members who are currently teaching neuroscience, this innovative new resources skillfully bridges the gap between basic and clinical science. Clinical content and numerous cases throughout the book enable readers to actually apply the principles they are learning to real-world situations.

Essentials of Modern Neuroscience includes the strong pedagogy that has proven popular in other revised LANGE basic science titles, including chapter opening Learning Objectives, bulleted chapter Summaries, cases, and application boxes. Chapters are intentionally succinct, making them more manageable to student readers. The text is bolstered by nearly 500 rich full-color images that clearly depict the content being discussed in the chapter. The Table of Contents and organization mirrors the way most medical schools teach the subject, and contents include unique chapters on Addiction, Affective Disorders, and Neurologic Diseases.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: Cellular Neuroscience

1. Neurohistology

2. Origin of the membrane potential

3. Action potential

4. Single ion channels and gating mechanisms

5. Ion channel structure-function

6. Ion channel diversity and regulation

7. Ion channel diseases

8. Fundamentals of synaptic transmission

9. Synaptic plasticity

10. Neurotransmitter release

11. Neurotransmitter reuptake

Part II: Molecular & Developmental Neuroscience

1. Axon guidance

2. Synapse formation

3. Dendrite formation

4. Gliogenesis

5. Corticogenesis

6. Neuronal migration

7. Neurogenesis and neuronal stem cells

Part III: Sensory & Systems Neuroscience

1. Genes, circuits and behavior

2. Human neurogenetics

3. Visual systems

4. Auditory systems

5. Olfactory systems

6. Motor systems

7. Pain and somatosensory

8. Learning

9. Cognitive neuroscience

10. Affective disorders