The Thalamus 2 Volume Hardback Set

Edward G. Jones is Director of The Center for Neuroscience and DistinguisHed Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis. He is a past president of the Society for Neuroscience.

'While the early edition was truly remarkable, the two-volume, second edition of 1679 pages of expanded size represents an effort reminiscent of Polyak's 1390-page tome …The basic organization and many features of the first edition are carried over to the second, but this is bigger and better in every way. Most impressive, the second edition is profusely illustrated with drawings, photographs of investigators, and especially, photomicrographs of brain sections through the thalamus. The photomicrographs are not just of a brain section here and there, but of series of sections from the same cases, and not just from the laboratory species that we can view in the many stereotaxic atlases that are now available, but also of species such as tree shrews, galagos and the egg-laying monotremes.' Jon H. Kaas, Vanderbilt University

• Part I. History: 1. The history of the thalamus; Part II. Fundamental Principles: 2. Descriptions of the thalamus in representative mammals; 3. Principles of thalamic organization; 4. Thalamic neurons, synaptic organization and functional properties; 5. Chemistry of the thalamus; Part III. Development: 6. Development of the thalamus; Part IV. Individual Thalamic Nuclei: 7. Ventral nuclei; 8. Medial geniculate complex; 9. Lateral geniculate nucleus; 10. Lateral posterior and pulvinar nuclei; 11. Posterior complex of nuclei; 12. Intralaminar nuclei; 13. Medial nuclei; 14. Anterior nuclei and lateral dorsal nucleus; 15. Ventral thalamus; 16. Epithalamus; Part V. Comparative Structure: 17. Comparative anatomy of the thalamus; 18. The human thalamus; Part VI. Conclusions: 19. Concluding remarks; References; Index.