Foundations of Neural Development

AvS. Marc Breedlove

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Foundations of Neural Development is a textbook written with a conversational writing style and topics appropriate for an undergraduate audience. Each chapter begins with a thought-provoking vignette, or a "real-life story," that the subsequent material illuminates. The "Researchers at Work" feature, available in every chapter, describes a classic study in detail, taking the reader through the hypothesis, test, result, and conclusion of an experiment. A marginal glossary, review questions, and visual summary are a few of the other features in the book. Lively and engaging, with the finest illustrations, Foundations of Neural Development is the perfect book to help any undergraduate student understand how a single microscopic cell, a human zygote, can develop into the most complex machine on earth, the brain.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-31
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:370
Upplaga:2
Förlag:Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN:9780197764022

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Biovetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

S. Marc Breedlove, the Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience at Michigan State University, has written more than 130 scientific articles investigating the role of hormones in shaping the developing and adult nervous system, publishing in journals including Science, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He is also passionate about teaching--in the classroom, and in the greatercommunity through interviews with the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Newsweek, as well as broadcast programs including All Things Considered, Good Morning America, and Sixty Minutes. Dr. Breedlove is a Fellow ofthe American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Psychological Science.

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Easy to read, thorough, beautiful figures, focuses on scientific process as well as content in a very undergrad-appropriate level.

Innehållsförteckning

Prologue: The Rationalist Philosophers1. The Metazoans' Dilemma: Cell Differentiation and Neural Induction2. Coordinating Fates: Development of a Body Pattern3. Upward Mobility: Neurogenesis and Migration4. Seeking Identity: Neural Differentiation5. Feeling One's Way: Axonal Pathfinding6. Making Connections: Synapse Formation and Maturation7. Accepting Mortality: Apoptosis8. Distant Voices: Hormonally Guided Neural Development9. Expanding Your Worldview: Activity and Experience-Guided Neural Development10. Investing in the Next Generation: Socially Guided Neural DevelopmentEpilogue: Immanuel Kant and the Critique of Pure ReasonAppendixGlossaryReferencesIndex