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Brain structure and its origins : in development and in evolution of behavior and the mind /
An introduction to the brain's anatomical organization and functions with explanations in terms of evolutionary adaptations and development.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Getting ready for a brain structure primer
- 2. Methods for mapping pathways and interconnections that enable the integrative activity of the CNS
- 3. Evolution of multicellular organisms with neuron-based coordination
- 4. Expansions of the neuronal apparatus of success
- 5. The ancestors of mammals : sketch of a pre-mammalian brain
- 6. Some specializations involving head receptors and brain expansions
- 7. The components of the forebrain including the specialty of the mammals : the neocortex
- 8. The neural tube forms in the embryo, and CNS development begins
- 9. The lower levels of background support : spinal cord and the innervation of the viscera
- Intermission : The ventricular system, the meninges, and the glial cells
- 10. Hindbrain organization, specializations, and distortions
- 11. Why a midbrain? : notes on evolution, structure, and functions
- 12. Picturing the forebrain with a focus on mammals
- 13. Growth of the great networks of nervous systems
- 14. Overview of motor system structure
- 15. Descending pathways and evolution
- 16. The temporal patterns of movements
- 17. Widespread changes in brain state
- 18. Taste
- 19. Olfaction
- 20. Visual systems : origins and functions
- 21. Visual systems : the retinal projections
- 22. The visual endbrain structures
- 23. Auditory systems
- 24. Forebrain origins : from primitive appendage to modern dominance
- 25. Regulating the internal milieu and the basic instincts
- 26. Core pathways of the limbic system, with memory for meaningful places
- 27. Hormones and the shaping of brain structures
- 28. The medial pallium becomes the hippocampus
- 29. The limbic striatum and its outpost in the temporal lobe
- 30. The major subpallial structure of the endbrain
- 31. Lost dopamine axons : consequences and remedies
- Intermission : Neurogenesis in mature brains
- 32. Structural origins of object cognition, place cognition, dexterity, and planning
- 33. Basic neocortal organization : cells, modules, and connections
- 34. Structural change in development and in maturity.