Main description:

Neurosciences - a comprehensive approach

This textbook covers neuroscience from cellular and molecular mechanisms to behavior and cognitive processing. We also address evolution of the nervous system, computational neuroscience, the history of neuroscience as a discipline and neurophilosophy - to name but a few. The book provides the newest state-of-the-art knowledge about neuroscience from across the animal kingdom, with particular emphasis on model species commonly used in neuroscience labs across the world: mouse, zebra fish, fruit fly, honeybee, and nematode worm. We aim at university students of neuroscience, psychology, biological sciences, and medical sciences, but also computer scientists, philosophers, or anybody interested in understanding how brains work.

Contents:

From Neurophysiology to Neuroscience: New echnologies and New Concepts in the Twentieth Century.- Evolution of Nervous Systems and Brains.- Ontogeny of the Vertebrate Nervous System.- Diseases.- Neurophilosophy.- Cellular and Molecular Basis of Neural Function.- Electrical Activity in Neurons.- The Synapse.- Biology and Function of Glial Cells.- The Autonomic Nervous System.- Neuropeptides and Peptide Hormones.- The Biological Function of Sensory Systems.- Olfaction.- Taste.- Thermosensation.- Mechanosensation.- Auditory Systems.- Vision.- Electroreception.- The Magnetic Senses.- Pain and Nociception.- Muscles and Motility.- Motor Control.- The Neural Bases of Emotions.- Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Central Nervous System.- Cellular Correlates of Learning and Memory.- Circadian Timing.- Learning, Memory, and Cognition: Animal Perspectives.- Primate Social Intelligence.- Computational Neuroscience:Capturing the Essence.