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Edited and authored by a wealth of international experts in neuroscience and related disciplines, this key new resource aims to offer medical students and graduate researchers around the world a comprehensive introduction and overview of modern neuroscience.

Neuroscience research is certain to prove a vital element in combating mental illness in its various incarnations, a strategic battleground in the future of medicine, as the prevalence of mental disorders is becoming better understood each year. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are affected by mental, behavioral, neurological and substance use disorders. The World Health Organization estimated in 2002 that 154 million people globally suffer from depression and 25 million people from schizophrenia; 91 million people are affected by alcohol use disorders and 15 million by drug use disorders. A more recent WHO report shows that 50 million people suffer from epilepsy and 24 million from Alzheimer's and other dementias.

Because neuroscience takes the etiology of disease-the complex interplay between biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors-as its object of inquiry, it is increasingly valuable in understanding an array of medical conditions. A recent report by the United States' Surgeon General cites several such diseases: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, early-onset depression, autism, attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, anorexia nervosa, and panic disorder, among many others. Not only is this volume a boon to those wishing to understand the future of neuroscience, it also aims to encourage the initiation of neuroscience programs in developing countries, featuring as it does an appendix full of advice on how to develop such programs. With broad coverage of both basic science and clinical issues, comprising around 150 chapters from a diversity of international authors and including complementary video components, Neuroscience in the 21st Century in its third edition serves as a comprehensive resource to students and researchers alike.

Contents:

New chapters:

1. Induction and patterning of the Brain (can focus on the telencephalon and/or cortex)

Shubha Tole, Jean Hebert, Ed Monuki

2. Generation of neuronal diversity; General

Qin Shen, Sally Temple 3. Transcription Factors in the generation of neural cell types

Zhengang Yang, Jane Johnson, Kenneth Campbell

4. Gene Regulatory Networks in Brain Development

Diane Dickel, Alexander Nord, Marc Ekker

5. Posttranscription Regulation in Brain Development

Carina Hanashima, Debra Silver

6. Neurogenesis of the Cerebral Cortex Projection Neurons

Robert Hevner, Shen-Ju Chou, Bin Chen, Tomasz Nowakowski , Michele Studer

7. Neurogenesis of Cortical Local Circuit Neurons

Stewart Anderson, Renata Batista-Brito

8. Neurogeneis in the Spinal Cord

Michael P. Matise, Martyn Goulding

9. Generation of Astrocytes, Oligodendrocytes and Microglia Glia

Stephen Fancy, Anna Molofsky, Tom Arnold

10. Brain organoids as a model system for human neurodevelopment in health and disease

Sergiu P. Pasca, Bjoern Schwer, Wieland Huttner

11. Generation of Axons and Dendrites

Julie L. Lefebvre, Le Ma, Franck Polleux

12., Axon Guidance

R. Jeroen Pasterkamp, Frederick Charron, Artur Kania

13. Cell Migration

Laurent Nguyen, Orly Reiner, Kazunori Nakajima, Sam Pleasure14. Synapse Formation

Kimberley McAllister, Cagla Eroglu, Peter Scheiffele, Ann Marie Craig

15. Maturation of Neurophysioligcal Properties

Angie Ribera, Nicholas Spitzer

16. Myelination

Jonah R Chan, Klaus-Armin Nave