Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan

✍ Scribed by Larry W. Swanson

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 348
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Now in its second edition, Brain Architecture is the continued exploration of how the brain works. It summarizes traditional views about brain structure-function organization clearly and comprehensively and elaborates a new four system network model of nervous system organization. Thoroughly updated and refreshingly clear, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the science of how the brain works.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface to the First Edition
1. Thinking about the Brain: Body and Mind
2. How the Brain Works: History, Structure, and Function
3. The Simplest Nervous Systems: Neurons, Nerve Nets, and Behavior
4. Centralization and Symmetry: Ganglia and Nerves
5. The Basic Vertebrate Plan: Transverse Divisions
6. Neurogenesis: Longitudinal Divisions, Parts List, and Adult Flatmap
7. Brain and Behavior: A Four Systems Network Model
8. The Motor System: Coordinating External and Internal Behaviors
9. The Behavioral State System: Intrinsic Control of Sleep and Wakefulness
10. The Cognitive System: Thinking and Voluntary Control of Behavior
11. The Sensory System: Inputs from Environment and Body
12. Modifiability: Learning, Stress, Cycles, and Damage Repair
13. Genome and Connectome
Appendix A. Describing Position in the Animal Body
Appendix B. Naming and Classifying Nervous System Parts
Appendix C. Methods for Analyzing Brain Architecture
Epigraphs
Glossary
Index