Neurobiology For Dummies

Höfundar: Frank Amthor; Anne B. Theibert (Útgáfa: 2)
Neurobiology For Dummies

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An essential guide to help you demystify the complex topic of neurobiology and jump into this fascinating scientific field Neurobiology is a notoriously difficult subject, but Neurobiology For Dummies explains the essentials in terms anyone can understand. This fun and accessible book covers the fundamentals, covering the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the nervous system. Students in fields like neuroscience and pharmacology will get a complete overview of the molecular and cellular mechanisms of the nervous system, making it easier to complete coursework and pass exams in introductory neurobiology courses.

In this updated edition, fresh examples highlight the latest research, so you'll be prepared with a current understanding of the science. Whatever your ultimate career destination, this Dummies guide will help you get neurobiology under your belt. Get easy-to-understand explanations of complex topics in neurobiology Understand the latest breakthroughs in neurological disease treatments Learn about the fascinating ways that the brain and body are interconnected Supplement your neurobiology textbook and prepare for your exam This is the perfect resource for students majoring in neuroscience, biology, cognitive science, medicine, and beyond.

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Útgefandi
Wiley Professional Development (P&T)
ISBN
9781394266357
Print ISBN
9781394266340
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
2
Höfundar
Frank Amthor; Anne B. Theibert
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2024-07-08
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Beyond the Book
  • Where to Go from Here
  • Part 1: Getting Started with Neurobiology
  • Chapter 1: Welcome to the World of Neurobiology
  • Starting with Neurobiology — Just the Basics
  • Introducing Neurons and Glia
  • Protecting and Nourishing the Parts
  • Navigating Around the Nervous System
  • Moving the Correct Way
  • Perceiving the World, Thinking, and Remembering
  • Chapter 2: Meeting the Building Blocks
  • Introducing Molecular Building Blocks
  • Getting Into Genes
  • Synthesizing Proteins in Translation
  • Organizing the Organelles
  • Ordering with the Cytoskeleton
  • Setting Boundaries: Cellular Membranes
  • Trafficking Membrane Proteins and Signals
  • Eyeing the Neuron: Not Just Another Cell
  • Getting Back to Genetics
  • Modifying Genes: Yes or No?
  • Chapter 3: Constructing the Nervous System
  • Staging Early Development
  • Forming the Neural Tube in Neurulation
  • Producing Neural Cells
  • Differentiating at Journey’s End
  • Extending and Guiding Axons and Dendrites
  • Establishing the Synapses
  • Myelinating into Adulthood
  • Disrupting Development
  • Chapter 4: Modulating Membrane Potentials
  • Getting the Membrane Potential
  • Storing Energy in Ion Gradients
  • Establishing the Resting Membrane Potential with Leak Channels
  • Changing the Membrane Potential
  • Generating the Action Potential
  • Conducting Action Potentials
  • Chapter 5: Transmitting to Targets
  • Looking at Synaptic Transmission
  • Expanding Views of Chemical Synapses
  • Focusing on Chemical Synaptic Transmission Mechanisms
  • Releasing Neurotransmitter from the Presynaptic Region
  • Being Receptive to Receptors
  • Meeting Metabotropic Receptors
  • Getting Back to Rest
  • Closing in on Electrical Synapses
  • Integrating Postsynaptic Responses
  • Dividing and Conquering: Circuits
  • Chapter 6: Communicating through Chemicals
  • Activating with Acetylcholine
  • Exciting with Glutamate
  • Inhibiting with GABA and Glycine
  • Integrating and Maintaining the Balance
  • Signaling with Purines
  • Modulating with Monoamines
  • Behaving with Neuropeptides
  • Part 2: Controlling Muscles, Movement, and Survival
  • Chapter 7: Moving Muscles with Motor Neurons
  • Making a Move: Muscle Types and What They Do
  • Pulling Your Weight: How Muscle Cells Contract
  • Controlling Muscle Contraction
  • Reflexing without Reflecting
  • Exercise and Aging
  • Chapter 8: Controlling Movement through Brain Pathways
  • Overviewing Pathways for Controlling Movement
  • Directing Voluntary Movement with the Motor Cortex
  • Coordinating Muscle Groups
  • Setting Goals with the Prefrontal Cortex
  • Selecting with the Basal Ganglia
  • Correcting Errors and Motor Learning: The Cerebellum
  • The Thalamus: Gateway to the Neocortex
  • Knowing, or Not Knowing, Who’s In Control
  • Chapter 9: Focusing On the Spinal Cord and Brain Stem
  • Surveying the Spinal Cord
  • Feeling and Acting: Connecting the CNS and PNS
  • Moving and Surviving with the Brainstem
  • Chapter 10: Maintaining the Internal Environment
  • Finding the Right Tone: The Autonomic Nervous System
  • Controlling the Autonomic Nervous System
  • Staying Alive with the Reticular Formation
  • Controlling Your Motives: The Limbic System
  • Chapter 11: Topping It Off: The Neocortex
  • Looking Inside the Skull: The Neocortex
  • Getting to the Brain You Have Today
  • Making Decisions: The Lateral Prefrontal Cortex
  • Doing the Right Thing
  • Seeing Both Sides: The Left and Right Hemispheres
  • Considering Sex and the Brain
  • Chapter 12: Delving into Motor Systems Disorders
  • Leading to Motor Disorders
  • Failing Forces: Muscle Diseases
  • Disrupting the Neuromuscular Junction
  • Looking At Damage to Motor Neurons
  • Examining Disorders of Movement
  • Focusing on Strokes and Injuries
  • Substituting Machines: Neuroprostheses
  • Part 3: Understanding Perception and Cognition
  • Chapter 13: Looking At Vision and Hearing
  • Imaging and Capturing Light: Vision
  • Joining the Nervous System: Photoreceptor Output
  • Sending Messages to the Brain
  • Fanning Out: From Thalamus to Occipital Lobe
  • Streaming the Message to the Temporal and Parietal Lobes
  • Listening In: Capturing Sound Waves
  • Channeling Sounds to the Brain
  • Losing Hearing
  • Balancing via the Vestibular System
  • Chapter 14: Feeling, Smelling, and Tasting
  • Getting in Touch with the Skin
  • Recognizing What You Touch at Somatosensory Cortex
  • Sniffing Out the World around You
  • Tasting Basics: Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Bitter Receptors
  • Tasting with the Brain
  • Monitoring Body Functions with Internal Chemoreceptors
  • Chapter 15: Learning to Remember
  • Defining Learning and Memory
  • Examining Implicit (Nondeclarative) Memory
  • Focusing on Declarative Memory
  • Examining Brain Regions and Memory Mechanisms
  • Forgetting It: Amnesia and Other Memory Loss
  • Improving Your Learning and Memory
  • Chapter 16: The Frontal Lobes and Executive Motor Control
  • Comparing Reflexes versus Conscious or Goal-Generated Action
  • Deciding How to Do It: The Frontal Lobes
  • Initiating Action in the Basal Ganglia
  • Coordinating through the Motor Cortex
  • Mirroring Others: Mirror Neurons
  • Chapter 17: Thinking About Intelligence, Language, and Lateralization
  • Adapting the Human Brain for Language
  • Following Thought through Sensory Pathways and Hierarchies
  • Speaking Your Mind: Language, Vision, and the Brain Hemispheres
  • Defining Intelligence
  • Understanding Consciousness
  • Chapter 18: Brain Dysfunction in Developmental and Mental Disorders
  • Grasping Developmental and Mental Disorders as Brain Dysfunction
  • Exploring Genetic Causes
  • Linking Genetic and Environmental Factors
  • Recognizing How the Environment Can Damage the Developing Brain
  • Combining Genes with Environment in Mental Disorders
  • Eating and Drinking for Brain Function
  • Part 4: The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 19: Ten Most Important Neural Circuits
  • The Reticular Formation
  • Somatic Reflexes
  • Central Pattern Generators
  • Thalamic Relay to the Cortex
  • Cerebellar Coordination
  • Hippocampal Circuitry and Activation with the Cortex
  • The Amygdala Orbitofrontal Cortex Loop
  • The Conscious Triangle
  • The Basal Ganglia Thalamus Loop
  • The Cingulate and Pulvinar Executives
  • Chapter 20: Ten Technologies Revolutionizing Brain Science
  • Cultured Slices, Cells, and Organoids
  • Fluorescence, Confocal, and Two-Photon Microscopy
  • Advances in Electrical Recordings
  • Neurogenetics
  • Genetic Manipulation of Neural Cells
  • Brain Imaging: Optical, Magnetic, and Electrical
  • Electrical Brain Stimulation
  • Optogenetics
  • Microelectrode Arrays
  • Brains Interfaced with Computers
  • Index
  • About the Authors
  • Connect with Dummies
  • End User License Agreement