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The human brain : essentials of behavioral neuroscience / Jackson Beatty.
Holman Biotech Commons QP376 .B42 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beatty, Jackson.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brain--physiology.
- Electrophysiology.
- Nervous System Diseases.
- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
- Brain.
- Neurophysiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Brain--physiology.
- Electrophysiology.
- Nervous System Diseases.
- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 507 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [2001]
- Summary:
- As an increasingly diverse student audience studies the brain at some point in the course of an undergraduate education, the need has grown for a conceptually driven and accessible introduction to behavioral neuroscience. Reading more like a good book than a dry text, Jackson Beatty's The Human Brain meets this need. Focused, concise, and coherent, this brief and engaging book reflects integrative trends in the field while making human neuroscience accessible to a wide audience. While other texts attempt to be widely inclusive, the focus of this volume has been narrowed and is truly concerned with the essentials of neuroscience. A program of spectacular anatomical art favors utility and function over gratuitous window dressing. Students and professors alike will appreciate this accessible introduction to the field of behavioral neuroscience.
- Contents:
- Thinking About Mind and Brain 2
- Reductionism and Science 3
- The Ascent of Natural Science 3
- Evolutionary Theory 4
- Empiricism and Functionalism 7
- Levels of Analysis 7
- Models aid Scientific Understanding 9
- The Process of Discovery 10
- The Scientific Method 11
- The Tools of Discovery 13
- Microscopic Studies 15
- Brain Imaging 16
- Recording Brain Electrical Activity 19
- Brain Lesion Analysis 20
- The Brain Sciences 22
- Ethical Issues in Neuroscience 22
- Experiments With Humans 23
- Experiments With Other-Species 23
- Animal Welfare and Animal Rights 25
- 2 The Nervous System 29
- Neurons 31
- The Neuronal Membrane 32
- The Neuronal Cytoskeleton 34
- Functional Parts of the Neuron 36
- The Cell Body 38
- Dendrites 40
- The Axon 41
- Types of Neurons 43
- Glial Cells 44
- The Blood-Brain Barrier 45
- The Anatomy of the Nervous System 48
- General Features of the Nervous System 50
- Standards for Neuroanatomical Naming 51
- Brain and Spinal Cord 52
- Peripheral Nervous System 63
- 3 Electrical Signaling 75
- Ions and the Cell Membrane 76
- Ions 76
- Ion Channels 77
- Ion Carriers 79
- The Resting Potential 80
- Ionic Diffusion and Ionic Concentration Gradients 80
- Precise Measurement of the Resting Potential 82
- The Sodium-Potassium Pump 83
- Neuronal Communication 86
- The Action Potential 86
- Recording the Action Potential 87
- Ionic Basis of the Action Potential 89
- Terminating the Action Potential 90
- Propagating the Action Potential 92
- Propagation in Myelinated Fibers 93
- Drugs That Affect the Action Potential 96
- 4 Synapses 101
- Gap Junctions 102
- Synapses 102
- Classifying Synapses by Microscopic Appearance 105
- Neurotransmitter Release 107
- Postsynaptic Functions 109
- Disposal of Neurotransmitter Substance 115
- Temporal and Spatial Summation 115
- Biochemistry of Neurotransmission 117
- Identifying Specific Neurotransmitters 118
- Families of Receptor Molecules 119
- Acetylcholine 120
- The Nicotinic Receptor 122
- The Muscarinic Receptor 123
- The Catecholamines 123
- Serotonin 124
- Amino Acids and Neuropeptides 125
- Nitric Oxide 126
- Drugs and Synapses 127
- 5 Vision 137
- Vision 137
- Light Is the Visual Stimulus 139
- Structure of the Eye 139
- The Retina 141
- Phototransduction 144
- Receptive Fields of Retinal Neurons 149
- Retinal Coding of Color 154
- The Visual Pathway 158
- Striate Cortex 163
- Receptive Field Properties 163
- Retinotopic Organization 167
- Extrastriate Visual Areas 170
- Perceptual Representation 174
- 6 Auditory, Bodily, and Chemical Senses 183
- Hearing 184
- Transduction in Hearing 185
- Sensory Coding in Audition 189
- Vestibular Sensation 194
- Taste 196
- Smell 199
- Somatosensation 202
- Touch 202
- Proprioception 209
- Pain 210
- Temperature 214
- 7 Movement 223
- Muscles 224
- Neural Control of Muscle Contraction 227
- The Motor Unit 229
- Sensory Feedback From Muscles 232
- Reflexive Movements 234
- Neural Basis of the Stretch Reflex 235
- Polysynaptic Spinal Reflexes 236
- Brain Motor Systems 237
- The Pyramidal Motor System 239
- The Extrapyramidal Motor System 240
- Motor Regions of the Cerebral Cortex 241
- Patterned Cortical Activation in Movement 244
- Motor Effects of Cortical Damage 245
- The Basal Ganglia 246
- Parkinson's Disease 248
- Huntington's Chorea 249
- The Cerebellum 250
- 8 Sleep and Waking 257
- Sleep and Waking 258
- The Waking State 258
- Slow-Wave Sleep 259
- Rapid Eye Movement Sleep 260
- Sleep Cycles 264
- The Development of Sleep 265
- Sleep Loss 266
- Functions of Sleep 266
- Brain Mechanisms Controlling Sleep 267
- Studies of Brain Stem Lesions 267
- The Reticular Activating System 268
- Brain Stem Cholinergic and Monoaminergic Systems 269
- Nucleus of the Solitary Tract 270
- The Suprachiasmatic Nuclei 270
- Sleep Disorders 272
- 9 Emotion and Stress 281
- Facial Expression of Emotion 282
- Visceral Expression of Emotion 285
- Neuroanatomy of Emotion 287
- Cerebral Cortex 290
- Hypothalamus 292
- Amygdala 293
- Septal Area 296
- Reward Systems of the Brain 297
- Stress 299
- The Stress Response 300
- Stress and Health 303
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 304
- Psychoneuroimmunology 305
- Stress and the Brain 307
- 10 Thirst, Hunger, and Sex 313
- Thirst 314
- Physiology of Water Regulation 314
- Sodium and Water Regulation 318
- Water Regulation and Thirst 319
- Osmotic Thirst 321
- Volumetric Thirst 323
- Hunger 326
- Metabolic States 330
- What Does Hunger Signal? 332
- Where Do Hunger Signals Originate? 334
- Brain Mechanisms 336
- Lepton and Neuropeptide Y 339
- Eating Disorders 341
- Sex 343
- Sex Hormones 345
- Hormonal Abnormalities in Sexual Development 347
- Hormones and Sexual Behavior 349
- Hormonal Factors in CNS Development 352
- 11 Language and Cognition 363
- Human Language 365
- Hierarchical Structure of Language 366
- Animal Models of Language 370
- Cerebral Dominance 372
- Disorders of Language 374
- Broca's Aphasia 375
- Wernicke's Aphasia 377
- Global Aphasia 379
- Anomic Aphasia 379
- Disconnection Syndromes 380
- Recovery From Aphasia 382
- Aphasia and Intelligence 382
- Developmental Dyslexia 384
- Stuttering 385
- Hemispheric Asymmetries 387
- Brain Activation in Cognition 391
- Processing Single Words 391
- Processing Words in Two Languages 393
- Phonetic and Pitch Discrimination 394
- Comprehending Sentences 395
- Locating the Lexicon 396
- 12 Learning, Memory, and Brain Plasticity 403
- Types of Memory 404
- Short-Term and Long-Term Memory 404
- Declarative and Nondeclarative Memory 405
- Types of Learning 406
- Nonassociative Learning 406
- Associative Learning 406
- Memory Loss 408
- Amnesia: The Case of H. M. 408
- Korsakoff's Syndrome 411
- Thalamic Amnesia: Patient N. A. 412
- Nondeclarative Memory Loss 413
- Cellular Basis of Simple Learning 415
- Habituation 416
- Sensitization 417
- Classical Conditioning 418
- Cellular Basis of Complex Learning 419
- LTP in CA1 Pyramidal Cells 420
- Associative LTP in CA1 Pyramidal Cells 421
- Insights From Transgenic Animals 423
- Short-Term Memory 426
- Cortical Plasticity 427
- Learning: New Synapses and New Cells 430
- 13 Disorders of the Nervous System 437
- Cerebral Trauma 438
- Cerebrovascular Disorders 440
- Cerebrovascular Accidents 440
- Transient Ischemic Attacks 441
- Arteriovenous Malformations 441
- Tumors 442
- Cns Infections 444
- Bacterial Infections 444
- Viral Infections 445
- Prion Diseases 446
- Aids-Related Neurological Disorders 448
- Multiple Sclerosis 450
- Dementia 450
- Alzheimer's Disease 451
- Multi-Infarct Dementia 454
- Epilepsy 454
- Schizophrenia 456
- Affective Disorders: Depression and Mania 464
- Gene Therapy for Brain Disorders 469.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-487) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis B. Flexner Medical Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0761920617
- OCLC:
- 45647819
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