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Full Description
Foundations of Neural Development is a textbook written with a conversational writing style and topics appropriate for an undergraduate audience. Each chapter begins with a thought-provoking vignette, or a "real-life story," that the subsequent material illuminates. The "Researchers at Work" feature, available in every chapter, describes a classic study in detail, taking the reader through the hypothesis, test, result, and conclusion of an experiment. A marginal glossary, review questions, and visual summary are a few of the other features in the book. Lively and engaging, with the finest illustrations, Foundations of Neural Development is the perfect book to help any undergraduate student understand how a single microscopic cell, a human zygote, can develop into the most complex machine on earth, the brain.
Contents
Prologue: The Rationalist Philosophers
1. The Metazoans' Dilemma: Cell Differentiation and Neural Induction
2. Coordinating Fates: Development of a Body Pattern
3. Upward Mobility: Neurogenesis and Migration
4. Seeking Identity: Neural Differentiation
5. Feeling One's Way: Axonal Pathfinding
6. Making Connections: Synapse Formation and Maturation
7. Accepting Mortality: Apoptosis
8. Distant Voices: Hormonally Guided Neural Development
9. Expanding Your Worldview: Activity and Experience-Guided Neural Development
10. Investing in the Next Generation: Socially Guided Neural Development
Epilogue: Immanuel Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason
Appendix
Glossary
References
Index
