The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology - Softcover

Levitan, Irwin B.; Kaczmarek, Leonard K.

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9780195100211: The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology

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ISBN 10: 0195100212 ISBN 13: 9780195100211

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1996

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This textbook of cellular and molecular neurobiology has been thoroughly revised to give an up-to-date picture of the biochemical and physiological properties of nerve cells, the mechanisms that generate and regulate their activity, and their roles in development and adult plasticity. It should be of interest to Cellular Neurobiology Courses.

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"The text is impressively modern, with up-to date information on the trendiest areas of neurobiology . . . .the book is highly visual, with figures on virtually every page. The figures deserve special comment because they are a teacher's dream: simple and uncluttered, but conceptually powerful. Frankly, although the recommendation is often absurd, The Neuron is one of those books that really does belong on every shelf. "--Nature "The format of each chapter is ideally suited for easy, enjoyable, and almost effortless learning . . . This is a superbly written and well-illustrated text covering all of the major aspects of neuroscientific knowledge . . . every neuroscientist should keep a copy handy."--Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience "This is a first-rate textbook for a course in cellular neurobiology for upper-level university students. My colleagues and I took it out on a shakedown cruise with a class of 250 undergraduates. The wind really caught their sails, and we sped quickly through it in the ten weeks of the academic quarter. The students appreciated the consistent clarity and the uniformity of style. The illustrations are highly conceptual and were easily understood . . . The up-to-date presentation of many exciting recent findings is a great strength. General principles are illustrated with a useful blend of data from vertebrate and invertebrate systems."--William S Messer, Jr., in The Quarterly Review of Biology "An outstanding, easily readable, and quite up-to-date overview of fundamental neurobiology."--Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences "The authors have produced an extremely well-integrated, highly readable, soft-cover volume which can introduce students of neuroscience into the field, and graduates into a refresher and review on recent developments in a most readable and logical progression, beginning with the cell, both neuron and glia, and progressing through the complexities of neuronal networks."--Journal of the Neurological Sciences "In spite of the overwhelming amount of information on all things neuronal, the authors have succeeded in providing in-depth coverage on many new discoveries in neuroscience and integrating the material into a readable text. ... The Neuron promises to be a very useful textbook ... and a helpful introductory guide for scientists just becoming interested in the nervous system."--The Quarterly Review of Biology "In spite of the overwhelming amount of information on all things neuronal, the authors have succeeded in providing in-depth coverage on many new discoveries in neuroscience and integrating the material into a readable text. ... The Neuron promises to be a very useful textbook ... and a helpfulintroductory guide for scientists just becoming interested in the nervous system."--The Quarterly Review of Biology "In spite of the overwhelming amount of information on all things neuronal, the authors have succeeded in providing in-depth coverage on many new discoveries in neuroscience and integrating the material into a readable text. ... The Neuron promises to be a very useful textbook ... and a helpful introductory guide for scientists just becoming interested in the nervous system."--The Quarterly Review of Biology "In spite of the overwhelming amount of information on all things neuronal, the authors have succeeded in providing in-depth coverage on many new discoveries in neuroscience and integrating the material into a readable text. ... The Neuron promises to be a very useful textbook ... and a helpfulintroductory guide for scientists just becoming interested in the nervous system."--The Quarterly Review of Biology

About the Author:

Irwin B. Levitan, Ph.D., is the Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience at Brandeis University. Leonard K. Kaczmarek, Ph.D., is Professor of Pharmacology and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and Chairman of the Pharmacology Department at Yale University School of Medicine.

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