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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 Lecturers Supplements are available to confirmed adopters of the textbook. To request, please email lecturerservices@palgrave.com with the title and ISBN of the required supplement together with your academic details: Supplement requested ISBN Your name Your Job Title Your academic address Your academic email Module name Module start date Module student numbers

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62760 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 857 pages

Book Info
Textbook, for undergraduates, highlighting the intellectual challenges, excitement, and uncertainties of what many see as the last great frontier of biological science. Color formatting. Includes a CD-ROM containing six modules allowing interaction with a whole-brain specimen, examine the brain's 3-D internal organization, and more. Prev. ed.: c1997. DNLM: Nervous System Physiology.

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

Pointless Text
Purves and his editors scored "big time" in this textbook. I find this text incredibly difficult to read. My prof constantly tell us of the mistakes she finds in the textbook. The diagrams are great, but some of them contain mistakes, too. We only studied about seven chapters of the textbook. The textbook didn't help my understanding of the many concepts in neuroscience. Sure, everything is great when you read things for fun... But you would thnk that if they design this as a textbook, they would correct any mistakes before putting it in large scale publication.

Excellent! Accessible, great graphics, good organization.
As an undergraduate Psychobiology student, this text served me well in my Neuroscience course. In all honesty I never went. I just read this book. I got excellent marks in the class. As a serious slacker and bibliophile, I recommend this textbook for any like-minded student.

Confusing
When I saw the page I recognized the cover of the book, but I could not believe what people were actually writing about it.

First I want to say that I am an undergraduate biotechnology student. I have a very strong background in biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, tissue culture techniques, and immunology; but I have not had any classes dealing with anatomy or physiology since Bio 101 way back when. I have read and am quite comfortable with Alberts Molecular Biology of the Cell and Stryers Biochemistry, and even a handful of primary journal articles, so I do know how to read a textbook.

Now with that out of the way, let me say that this book is completely incomprehensible. It is so full of anatomy and Latin derived words (which it does a poor job at explaining BTW) that I can only assume that it was meant for medical students, and to have physiology an a prerequisite for it, but it doesn't even have an introduction describing the recommended background or whom it is supposed to be for. In fact, most of the book is devoted to the physiology of sensation and movement, not neurobiology. Now if you have the background for it and thats what you are looking for then it is a very thorough text that goes into a lot of depth.

If you are looking to understand the biochemistry or molecular aspects of neurobiology, find another book!