Handbook of Brain Microcircuits
"Few would question that one of the major frontiers being explored in neuroscience is the understanding of brain circuits and the ways in which they process information and generate behavior. This outstanding volume by Shepherd and Grillner is essential reading for anyone participating in that exploration or following it as an observer. The 52 chapters in this volume come from the world's leading experts on microcircuits, and it covers a wide span of topics ranging from chemotaxis in C. elegans to microcircuitry of the primate prefrontal cortex." - John H. Byrne, PhD, June and Virgil Waggoner Chair and Chairman, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, TX "In the brain hardware sculpted throughout life by a dynamic and continuously updated software, endowed with a biological complexity absent in machines, microcircuits provide fundamental units of processing. In this outstanding book with 52 sharp and authoritative chapters, the hardware, software and interneuronal dialogue of such fundamental units are presented throughout the neuraxis, and from primates to invertebrates. Fascinating and highly informative, the comprehensive view offered by this book provides an essential and unique insight to all investigators engaged in the very demanding endeavour of understanding how the brain works, both concerning its diversity and its unifying concepts." - Marina Bentivoglio, MD, Department of Neurological, Neuropsychological, Morphological and Motor Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy "Neural circuits have come of age. Long recognized to be the crucial link between the cellular and systems-level approaches to the nervous system, it is only recently that new optical, genetic and physiological techniques have allowed neural circuits to become accessible to systematic investigation. This book, written by the leading authorities in the field, celeb