Description
Extensively revised throughout, Nolte's Essentials of the Human Brain, 2nd Edition, offers a reader-friendly overview of neuroscience and neuroanatomy ideal for studying and reviewing for exams. Updated content, integrated pathology and pharmacology for a more clinical focus, and full-color illustrations make a complex subject easier to understand. Test and verify your knowledge with review questions, unlabelled drawings, and more.- Includes explanatory color illustrations and brain images that visually depict structure-function relationships and key neuroscience concepts.- Provides multiple-choice and comprehensive review questions with explanations that cover core topics, so you can test and develop your knowledge.- Includes student-friendly features, such as chapter outlines, key concept boxes, high-yield headings, study questions at the end of each chapter, a comprehensive quiz with clinical vignettes, and blank diagrams that can be used for labelling practice.- Focuses on the clinical aspects of the nervous system with updated neuroscience content, integrated pathology and pharmacology content, and more clinically relevant questions.- Student Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, references, and animations, designed to produce a more rounded learning experience.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Nervous SystemChapter 2: Development of the Nervous SystemChapter 3: Gross Anatomy and General Organization of the Central Nervous SystemChapter 4: Meningeal Coverings of the Brain and Spinal CordChapter 5: Ventricles and Cerebrospinal FluidChapter 6: Blood Supply of the BrainChapter 7: Electrical Signaling by NeuronsChapter 8: Synaptic Transmission between NeuronsChapter 9: Sensory Receptors and the Peripheral Nervous SystemChapter 10: Spinal CordChapter 11: Organization of the BrainstemChapter 12: Cranial Nerves and Their NucleiChapter 13: The Chemical Senses of Taste and SmellChapter 14: Hearing and Balance: The Eighth Cranial NerveChapter 15: Brainstem SummaryChapter 16: The Thalamus and Internal Capsule: Getting to and from the Cerebral CortexChapter 17: The Visual SystemChapter 18: Overview of Motor SystemsChapter 19: Basal GangliaChapter 20: CerebellumChapter 21: Control of Eye MovementsChapter 22: Cerebral CortexChapter 23: Drives and Emotions: The Hypothalamus and Limbic SystemChapter 24: Formation, Modification, and Repair of Neuronal Connections
