1 volume (various pagings) : 28 cm

Offers medical and health professions students a text that gives equal weight to the branches of science represented within neuroscience including anatomy, physiology, biology, and chemistry

Includes index

Overview of the central nervous system -- Development of the nervous system -- Meninges and cerebrospinal fluid -- Blood supply of the central nervous system -- Histology of the nervous system -- Electrophysiology of neurons -- Synaptic transmission -- Neurotransmitters -- The spinal cord -- Brainstem I: the medulla -- Brainstem II: pons and cerebellum -- Brainstem III: the midbrain -- The forebrain -- The cranial nerves -- Somatosensory system -- Visual system -- Auditory and vestibular systems -- Olfaction and taste -- The upper motor neurons -- The basal ganglia -- The cerebellum -- The autonomic nervous system -- The reticular formation -- The hypothalamus -- The limbic system -- The thalamus and cerebral cortex -- Vascular syndromes -- Behavioral and psychiatric disorders

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