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Medical neurobiology /
This single-author text introduces the student to the fundamentals of the nervous system as it relates to the practice of medicine and human health. The workings of the nervous system are communicated in easy to understand language. The text emphasizes the contribution of the nervous system to diver...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction to the nervous system
- Cells of the nervous system: neurons and glia
- Developmental overview of neuroanatomy: the tube within the brain
- Neural communication
- Neuron at rest
- Electrical communication within a neuron
- Neurotransmitter release
- Synthesis, packaging, and termination of neurotransmitters
- Receiving the synaptic message
- Neuroanatomy
- Spinal cord: conduit between body and brain
- Cranial nerves: brain sentries
- Brainstem organization
- Inside the brainstem: cranial nerve nuclei and long-distance connections
- Forebrain: action, perception, emotion, thought
- Following the nutrients: blood supply, blood-brain barrier, and ventricles
- Perception
- Perceiving the world
- Seeing the world
- Audition: communciation portal
- Somatosensation: focus on pain
- Vestibular sense: balance and equilibrium
- Motor control
- Motor unit and orderly recruitment
- Reflexes and gait
- From movement to action: postural stability, orienting, and praxis
- Cerebellum
- Basal ganglia: action selection
- Gaze control
- Homeostasis
- Homeostatic systems: staying alive
- You and the brain
- Brain in a physician's life.