Developmental Neurobiology
Contributors: Mahendra S. Rao (Editor); Marcus Jacobson (Editor)
Edition: 4th ed. edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 6, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780306483301
Subjects: Neurosciences; Medical; Sociology; Science/Mathematics; Anatomy; Anthropology - Physical; Neuroscience; Medical / Neuroscience; General; Developmental neurobiology
First sentence: As subsequent chapters will describe, the vertebrate nervous system is necessarily complex.
Description: The book is presented as a timeline of development with emphasis on human and vertebrate biology. Fully documented examples exhaustively illustrate general principles in viewing development of structure and function as an integrated unity. The book stresses the universal aspects of the development of the nervous system in both vertebrates and invertebrates, especially at the cellular level, but also compares and contrasts different levels of neuronal organization, giving much attention to phylogenetic and individual variations in neuronal ontogeny.