Comparative structure and evolution of cerebral cortex
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
Comparative structure and evolution of cerebral cortex
(Cerebral cortex, v. 8A-8B)
Plenum Press, c1990
- pt. 1
- pt. 2
Available at 40 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
-
Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences Library
pt. 1491.371/C 29/8-100015751,
pt. 2491.371/C 29/8-200015752 -
Kanazawa University Medical Library医学図書庫別置4
pt. 1WL300:C414:8A9206-51951-4,
pt. 2WL300:C414:8B9206-51952-2
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
-
pt. 1 ISBN 9780306434778
Description
The cerebral cortex, especially that part customarily designated "neocortex," is one of the hallmarks of mammalian evolution and reaches its greatest size, relatively speaking, and its widest structural diversity in the human brain. The evolution of this structure, as remarkable for the huge numbers of neurons that it contains as for the range of behaviors that it controls, has been of abiding interest to many generations of neuroscientists. Yet few theories of cortical evo lution have been proposed and none has stood the test of time. In particular, no theory has been successful in bridging the evolutionary gap that appears to exist between the pallium of nonmammalian vertebrates and the neocortex of mam mals. Undoubtedly this stems in large part from the rapid divergence of non mammalian and mammalian forms and the lack of contemporary species whose telencephalic wall can be seen as having transitional characteristics. The mono treme cortex, for example, is unquestionably mammalian in organization and that of no living reptile comes close to resembling it. Yet anatomists such as Ramon y Cajal, on examining the finer details of cortical structure, were struck by the similarities in neuronal form, particularly of the pyramidal cells, and their predisposition to laminar alignment shared by representatives of all vertebrate classes.
Table of Contents
I. Nonmammalian Vertebrates.- 1 The Telencephalon of Cartilaginous Fishes.- 2 The Telencephalon of Actinopterygian Fishes.- 3 The Telencephalon of Sarcopterygian Fishes.- 4 The Pallium of Anuran Amphibians.- 5 The Cerebral Cortex of Reptiles.- 6 Neurobiology of the Reptile-Bird Transition.- II. Introduction to Mammalian Cortical Evolution.- 7 Evolution of Neocortex.- 8 Fossil Evidence on the Evolution of the Neocortex.- 9 Modulatory Events in the Development and Evolution of Primate Neocortex.
- Volume
-
pt. 2 ISBN 9780306436352
Description
Volumes 8A (43477-6; reviewed in SciTech, March 1991) and 8B, taken together, set out in some detail the range of telencephalic and especially cortical structure and connectivity exhibited by the five major classes of vertebrates. Volume 8A deals largely with nonmammalian vertebrates. Volume 8B dea
by "Nielsen BookData"