Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan - Hardcover

Swanson, Larry W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195105044 ISBN 13: 9780195105049

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 2002

Synopsis

The brain has been viewed as an organ, machine, biological computer, and nervous system component. What are its major parts and how are they interconnected to generate thinking, feelings, and behaviour? Designed for undergraduates in neuroscience, this work surveys 2500 years of scientific thinking about these questions from the perspective of fundamental architectural principles. It proposes an alternative model for the basic plan of neural systems organization based on an explosion of structural data from the neuroanatomy revolution of the 1970s. Possible relationships between neural networks and gene networks revealed by the human genome project are also explored.

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Review

"Larry Swanson, one of the great contemporary students of brain anatomy, has given us a broad overview of the structure and function of the brain using insights from embryology and from evolutionary comparison to highlight the principles that govern the anatomical substrates of behavior. This book will be read avidly by both students and practicing scientists." -- Eric R Kandel MD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195105044
• ISBN 13: 9780195105049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320