Essential Neuroscience gives balanced weight to the key branches of science within neuroscience--anatomy, physiology, biology, and chemistry--a distinguishing feature that achieves appropriate content breadth. Features include:

• Chapter-opening Learning Objectives help students focus on the most important information to take away from each other chapter.
• Summary tables and outlines organize chapter material into a high-yield format to help students review the material effectively.
• Full-color art program includes over 400 illustrations.
• Chapter on Cranial Nerves offers material tested on the USMLE.

Contents

Gross Anatomy of the Brian

1. Overview of the Central Nervous System
2. Development of the Nervous System
3. Meninges and Cerebrospinal Fluid
4. Blood Supply of the Central Nervous System

The Neuron

5. Histology of the Nervous System
6. Electrophysiology of Neurons
7. Synaptic Transmission
8. Neurotransmitters

Oraganization of the Central Nervous System

9. The Spinal Cord
10. Brainstem I: The Medulla
11. Brainstem II: Pons and Cerebellum
12. Brainstem III: The Midbrain
13. The Forebrain
14. The Cranial Nerves

Sensory Systems

15. Somatosensory System
16. Visual System
17. Auditory and Vestibular Systems
18. Olfaction and Taste

Motor Systems

19. The Upper Motor Neurons
20. The Basal Ganglia
21. The Cerebellum

Integrative Systems

22. The Autonomic Nervous System
23. The Reticular Formation
24. The Hypothalamus
25. The Limbic System
26. The Thalamus and Cerebral Cortex
27. Vascular Syndromes
28. Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders

Index

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