Introduction to the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system
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Introduction to the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system
Blackwell Scientific, 1988
5th ed
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Previous ed.: 1979
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This student text provides a basic introduction to a notoriously difficult subject. The new way of looking at the nervous system that has resulted from recent discoveries in neurochemistry and endocrinology is reflected in the revision now offered.
Table of Contents
- Terminology
- Basic cellular elements and development of the central nervous system
- Membranes and spaces: blood and cerebrospinal fluid
- Generation, conduction and transmission of the nervous impulse
- Receptors and effectors
- The spinal cord
- The lower brain stem and cranial nerve nuclei
- The diencephalon
- The telencephalon
- Specific sensory systems
- The arousal system: pain
- Thalamic projection to telencephalon: association
- Skeletal motor systems
- The cerebellum
- The rhinencephalon (limbic lobe) and hypothalamus
- The blood supply of the central nervous system.
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