Fundamental Neuroscience for Basic and Clinical Applications - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 5th Edition

• Highlights clinical content in blue throughout the text, helping you focus on what you need to know in the clinical environment.

• Presents thoroughly updated information in every chapter, with an emphasis on new clinical thinking as related to the brain and systems neurobiology.
• Features hundreds of correlated state-of-the-art imaging examples, anatomical diagrams, and histology photos – nearly half are new or improved for this edition.
• Pays special attention to the correct use of clinical and anatomical terminology, and provides new clinical text and clinical-anatomical correlations.

Section I Essential Concepts

1 Orientation to the Structure and Imaging of the Central Nervous System

2 The Cell Biology of Neurons and Glia

3 The Electrochemical Basis of Nerve Function

4 Chemical Signaling in the Nervous System

5 Development of the Nervous System

6 The Ventricles, Choroid Plexus, and Cerebrospinal Fluid

7 The Meninges

8 A Survey of the Cerebrovascular System

9 The Spinal Cord

10 An Overview of the Brainstem

11 The Medulla Oblongata

12 The Pons and Cerebellum

13 The Midbrain

14 A Synopsis of Cranial Nerves of the Brainstem

15 The Diencephalon

16 The Telencephalon

17 The Somatosensory System I: Tactile Discrimination and Position Sense

18 The Somatosensory System II: Nociception, Thermal Sense, and Touch

19 Viscerosensory Pathways

20 The Visual System

21 The Auditory System

22 The Vestibular System

23 Olfaction and Taste

24 Motor System I: Peripheral Sensory, Brainstem, and Spinal Influence on Anterior Horn Neurons

25 Motor System II: Corticofugal Systems and the Control of Movement

26 The Basal Nuclei

27 The Cerebellum

28 Visual Motor Systems

29 Visceral Motor Pathways

30 The Hypothalamus

31 The Limbic System

32 The Cerebral Cortex

33 The Neurologic Examination