Neuroscience guides students through the challenges and excitement of this rapidly changing field. The book's length and accessibility of its writing are a successful combination that has proven to work equally well for medical students and in undergraduate neuroscience courses. 
 
 
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* Thoroughly revised and updated, including substantial revisions of chapters on: The Somatic Sensory System, The Visual System, The Chemical Senses, Upper Motor Neuron Control, The Basal Ganglia, and Sex and Sexuality.
* New chapter on Synaptic Plasticity
* New chapter on Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System
* Free Sylvius 4.0 download included with every book (see below)
* New appendix presenting an illustrated narrative of human neuroanatomy
* Revised and expanded full colour art
 
 
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Studying the Nervous Systems of Humans and Other Animals
PART ONE: NEURAL SIGNALING
Electrical Signals of Nerve Cells
Voltage- dependent Membrane Permeability
Channels and Transporters
Synaptic Transmission
Neurotransmitters, Receptors and Their Effects
Molecular Signaling within Neurons
Synaptic Plasticity
PART TWO: SENSATION AND SENSORY PROCESSING
The Somatic Sensory System
Pain
Vision: The Eye
Central Visual Pathways
The Auditory System
The Vestibular System
The Chemical Senses
PART THREE: MOVEMENT AND ITS CENTRAL CONTROL
Lower Motor Neuron Circuits and Motor Control
Upper Motor Neuron Control of the Brainstem and Spinal Cord
Modulation of Movement by the Basil Ganglia
Modulation of Movement by the Cerebellum
Eye Movements and Sensory Motor Integration
The Visceral Motor System
PART FOUR: THE CHANGING BRAIN
Early Brain Development
Construction of Neural Circuits
Modification of Brain Circuits as a Result of Experience
Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System
PART FIVE: COMPLEX BRAIN FUNCTIONS
The Association Cortices
Speech and Language
Sleep and Wakefulness
Emotions
Sex, Sexuality, and the Brain
Memory
Appendix: Survey of Human Neuroanatomy

DALE PURVES, M.D., Duke University, USA

GEORGE J. AUGUSTINE, Ph.D., Duke University, USA

DAVID FITZPATRICK, Ph.D., Duke University, USA
WILLIAM C. HALL

ANTHONY-SAMUEL LAMANTIA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

JAMES O. MCNAMARA, Duke University, USA

LEONARD E. WHITE, Duke University, USA