Product Description

Neuroscience guides students through the challenges and excitement of this rapidly changing field. The book's length and accessibility of its writing are a successful combination that has proven to work equally well for medical students and in undergraduate neuroscience courses. 
 
 
NEW TO THIS EDITION
 
* Thoroughly revised and updated, including substantial revisions of chapters on: The Somatic Sensory System, The Visual System, The Chemical Senses, Upper Motor Neuron Control, The Basal Ganglia, and Sex and Sexuality.
* New chapter on Synaptic Plasticity
* New chapter on Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System
* Free Sylvius 4.0 download included with every book (see below)
* New appendix presenting an illustrated narrative of human neuroanatomy
* Revised and expanded full colour art
 
 
STUDENT SUPPLEMENTS
 
* Companion Website at www.sinauer.com/neuroscience4e: Offers a range of study tools including Chapter Summaries, Animations, Online Quizzes, and Flashcards.
 
* Sylvius 4.0: Interactive Atlas and Visual Glossary of the Human Central Nervous System
By S. Mark Williams, Leonard E. White, and Andrew C. Mace
The new Sylvius 4.0 provides a unique computer-based learning environment for exploring and understanding the structure of the human central nervous system. Sylvius 4.0 features fully annotated surface views of the human brain, as well as interactive tools for dissecting the central nervous system and viewing fully annotated cross-sections of preserved specimens and living subjects imaged by magnetic resonance. This newly expanded and reconfigured Sylvius 4.0 is more than a conventional atlas; it incorporates a comprehensive, visually rich, searchable database of more than 500 neuroanatomical terms that are concisely defined and visualized in photographs, magnetic resonance images, and illustrations from Neuroscience, Fourth Edition. For users familiar with its predecessors, this version of Sylvius unites the atlas content and utility of SylviusPro (and earlier versions of Sylvius) with the reference content of SylviusVG (and Sylvius for Neuroscience), making this version of Sylvius a single source for teaching and understanding the organization of the human central nervous system. The new Sylvius 4.0 is an excellent resource for neuroscience educators, medical students, physical therapy students, other postgraduate and professional learners, as well as undergraduate pre-medical and biological psychology students.
 
 
LECTURER SUPPLEMENTS (Only available for confirmed adopters of the textbook - see details below)
 
* Instructor's Resource Library (978-0-87893-701-1): Includes a variety of resources to help in developing your course and delivering your lectures, such as Textbook Figures and Tables in JPEG format and PowerPoint presentations, Sylvius Image Library, Animations, Quiz Questions, and Review Questions.
 
* Online Quizzing is available at the Companion Website www.sinauer.com/neuroscience4e
 
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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #107547 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 810 pages

About the Author
DALE PURVES, M.D. Duke University, USA

GEORGE J. AUGUSTINE, Ph.D. Duke University, USA

DAVID FITZPATRICK, Ph.D. Duke University, USA

WILLIAM C. HALL

ANTHONY-SAMUEL LAMANTIA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

JAMES O. MCNAMARA, Duke University, USA

LEONARD E. WHITE, Duke University, USA

Customer Reviews

Nice detail, concise with great illustrations
This textbook takes the comprehensive subject of Neuroscience right down to the molecular level and works its way up whilst managing to be concise, interesting and pleasing to the eye.
I'm a second year undergraduate of Clinical Science taking Neuroscience as a stand-alone unit. This book is in the process of satisfying the Neuroanatomy (great accompanying CD), Neurophysiolgy and Neuropharmacology components of my course to a good level.
Overall this is the best choice for a book to start off when studying Neuroscience as its coverage is complete and well organised.

Another Bear, Conors and PAradisom, except better``
I've found this useful but yet more informative reading than Kandell. Jessel and Schwartz. The pharmaolgy section being especially useful, as is the CD rom included!

BRILLIANT BOOK!!!!! BUY IT!!!!!!
This is a brilliant book through and through, from the clear way in which the information is explained, to the innumberable colour diagrams that help you to understand the brain's structure and function at the molecular, celluar and anatomical level. There is additional software available that links with the book, information about key experiments carried out by researchers and an extensive brain atlas at the appendix of the book. As complex as the subject of neuroscience is, I'm thankful to Dale Purves and his team for creating such a helpful, well-detailed book on the subject. Perfect for university students and beyond.