The Developing Brain

This is an inexpensive yet important book on neural development. It should be in neurology, neurosurgery, and bioscience libraries.

• 1. Model systems and review of early morphogenesis ; 2. Origins of the nervous system: neural induction ; 3. Patterning the central nervous system ; 4. The emergence of neural fate ; 5. The neural crest ; 6. Glia and myelination ; 7. Development of cerebral cortex and cerebellar cortex ; 8. Development of sense organs ; 9. Growth and guidance of axons and dendrites ; 10. The formation of topographic maps ; 11. Synapse formation ; 12. Neurotrophic factors and their receptors ; 13. Nerve cell death ; 14. Rearrangement and stabilisation of synaptic connections ; 15. The synaptic basis of learning ; 16. Trophic interactions between neurons in the adult nervous system ; 17. Repair and plasticity in the adult vertebrate nervous system