Principles of NeurobiologyPrinciples of Neurobiology, Second Edition presents the major concepts of neuroscience with an emphasis on how we know what we know. The text is organized around a series of key experiments to illustrate how scientific progress is made and helps upper-level undergraduate and graduate students discover the relevant primary literature. Written by a single author in a clear and consistent writing style, each topic builds in complexity from electrophysiology to molecular genetics to systems level in a highly integrative approach. Students can fully engage with the content via thematically linked chapters and will be able to read the book in its entirety in a semester-long course. Principles of Neurobiology is accompanied by a rich package of online student and instructor resources including animations, figures in PowerPoint, and a Question Bank for adopting instructors. |
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... sensory fiber to cortex SUMMARY 261 264 267 HOW DO WORMS AND FLIES SENSE ODORS? 6.9 C. elegans encodes olfactory behavioral choices at the sensory neuron level 6.10 C. elegans sensory neurons are activated by odorant withdrawal and ...
... sensory neuron from a dorsal root ganglion. A single process from the cell body bifurcates into a peripheral axon (dashed to indicate the long distance) with terminal endings in the skin (equivalent of dendrites for collecting sensory ...
... sensory systems as well. Conversely, in motor systems, information must generally fow from the CNS to the periphery. Te morphology of the motor neuron indeed supports the notion that its bushy dendrites receive input within the spinal ...
... sensory neurons by sensory stimuli, such as the pressure on the toe in Adrian's experiment mentioned earlier; these are called receptor potentials. Unlike action potentials, the sizes of graded potentials vary depending on the strength ...
... sensory neuron inhibitory neuron muscle spindle extensor motor extensor muscle neuron flexor motor neuron flexor muscle 1.9 Neurons function in the context of specialized neural circuits Neurons perform their functions in the context of ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 Signaling across Synapses | 69 |
Chapter 4 Vision | 121 |
Chapter 5 Wiring the Visual System | 173 |
Chapter 6 Olfaction Taste Audition and Somatosensation | 213 |
Chapter 7 Constructing the Nervous System | 281 |
Chapter 8 Motor Systems | 335 |
Chapter 10 Sexual Behavior | 411 |
Chapter 11 Memory Learning and Synaptic Plasticity | 445 |
Chapter 12 Brain Disorders | 499 |
Chapter 13 Evolution of the Nervous System | 547 |
Chapter 14 Ways of Exploring | 591 |
Glossary | 1 |
Index | 1 |
Chapter 9 Regulatory Systems | 375 |