Cellular Migration and Formation of Neuronal Connections: Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience - Hardcover

Rubenstein, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123972663 ISBN 13: 9780123972668

Publisher: Academic Press, 2013

Synopsis

The genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms of neural development are essential for understanding evolution and disorders of neural systems. Recent advances in genetic, molecular, and cell biological methods have generated a massive increase in new information, but there is a paucity of comprehensive and up-to-date syntheses, references, and historical perspectives on this important subject. The Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience series is designed to fill this gap, offering the most thorough coverage of this field on the market today and addressing all aspects of how the nervous system and its components develop. Particular attention is paid to the effects of abnormal development and on new psychiatric/neurological treatments being developed based on our increased understanding of developmental mechanisms. Each volume in the series consists of review style articles that average 15-20pp and feature numerous illustrations and full references. Volume 2 offers 56 high level articles devoted mainly to Formation of Axons and Dendrites, Migration, Synaptogenesis, Developmental Sequences in the Maturation of Intrinsic and Synapse Driven Patterns.

• Series offers 144 articles for 2904 full color pages addressing ways in which the nervous system and its components develop
• Features leading experts in various subfields as Section Editors and article Authors
• All articles peer reviewed by Section Editors to ensure accuracy, thoroughness, and scholarship
• Volume 2 sections include coverage of mechanisms which regulate: the formation of axons and dendrites, cell migration, synapse formation and maintenance during development, and neural activity, from cell-intrinsic maturation to early correlated patterns of activity.

About this title

Review:

Part of a series offering the most comprehensive coverage of developmental neuroscience available, covering molecular development through to cognition and disease

About the Author:

Dr. Rubenstein is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He also serves as a Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child Psychiatry at the Nina Ireland Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology. His research focuses on the regulatory genes that orchestrate development of the forebrain. Dr. Rubenstein's lab has demonstrated the role of specific genes in regulating neuronal specification, differentiation, migration and axon growth during embryonic development and on through adult life. His work may help to explain some of the mechanisms underlying human neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0123972663
• ISBN 13: 9780123972668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1104