Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (International Edition)

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Acclaimed for its clear, friendly style, excellent illustrations, leading author team, and compelling theme of exploration, Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, Fourth Edition takes a fresh, contemporary approach to the study of neuroscience, emphasizing the biological basis of behaviour. We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. Widely praised for its student-friendly style and exceptional artwork and pedagogy, Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain is a leading undergraduate textbook on the biology of the brain and the systems that underlie behavior. I leave you leave with questions to ponder--Is the brain the fundamental last frontier or is it the cosmos?

The Fourth Edition has been fully updated to reflect these and other rapid advances in the field, while honouring its commitment to be student-friendly with striking new illustrations, additional animations, and an unparalleled array of online resources.The authors' passion for the dynamic field of neuroscience is evident on every page, engaging students and helping them master the material. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Neuroscience and a Professor of Medical Science at Brown University and the Alpert Medical School.

He has served on the editorial boards of numerous journals, including the Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neurophysiology, Cerebral Cortex, and Brain Structure and Function. He made fundamental discoveries on bidirectional synaptic plasticity, metaplasticity, the molecular basis of amblyopia (a cause of visual disability in children), and the pathophysiology of fragile X syndrome (the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and autism).This book lacks fine detail, especially with respect to electrophysiology, computational approaches and molecular neuroscience. I recommend this for anyone who wants to see the very basic connections between neuronal function and behavior. The authors’ passion for the dynamic field of neuroscience is evident on every page, engaging students and helping them master the material. He has been at the forefront of the efforts to translate knowledge of autism pathophysiology into new treatments.