The Human Nervous System Structure and Function /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Noback, Charles R. (Editor), Ruggiero, David A. (Editor), Demarest, Robert J. (Editor), Strominger, Norman L. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2005.
Edition:6th ed. 2005.
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-730-7
Table of Contents:
  • Gross Anatomy of the Brain
  • Neurons and Associated Cells
  • Basic Neurophysiology
  • Blood Circulation
  • Meninges, Ventricles and Cerebrospinal Fluid
  • Development and Growth of the Nervous System
  • The Spinal Cord
  • Reflexes and Muscle Tone
  • Pain and Temperature
  • Discriminative General Senses, Crude Touch, and Proprioception
  • Motoneurons and Motor Pathways
  • Lesions of the Spinal Nerves and Spinal Cord
  • Brainstem: Medulla, Pons, and Midbrain
  • Cranial Nerves and Chemical Senses
  • Neurotransmitters as the Chemical Messengers of Certain Circuits and Pathways
  • Auditory and Vestibular Systems
  • Lesions of the Brainstem
  • Cerebellum
  • The Visual System
  • Autonomic Nervous System
  • Hypothalamus
  • The Reticular Formation and the Limbic System
  • Thalamus
  • Basal Ganglia and Extrapyramidal System
  • Cerebral Cortex.