- Offers a comprehensive introduction and an updated overview of modern neuroscience
- Encourages the initiation of neuroscience programs in developing countries
- Edited and authored by leading, international experts in neuroscience and related disciplines
Edited and authored by a wealth of international experts in neuroscience and related disciplines, this key new resource aims to offer medical students and graduate researchers around the world a comprehensive introduction and overview of modern neuroscience.
Neuroscience research is certain to prove a vital element in combating mental illness in its various incarnations, a strategic battleground in the future of medicine, as the prevalence of mental disorders is becoming better understood each year. Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are affected by mental, behavioral, neurological and substance use disorders. The World Health Organization estimated in 2002 that 154 million people globally suffer from depression and 25 million people from schizophrenia; 91 million people are affected by alcohol use disorders and 15 million by drug use disorders. A more recent WHO report shows that 50 million people suffer from epilepsy and 24 million from Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Because neuroscience takes the etiology of disease—the complex interplay between biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors—as its object of inquiry, it is increasingly valuable in understanding an array of medical conditions. A recent report by the United States’ Surgeon General cites several such diseases: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, early-onset depression, autism, attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder, anorexia nervosa, and panic disorder, among many others. Not only is this volume a boon to those wishing to understand the future of neuroscience, it also aims to encourage the initiation of neuroscience programs in developing countries, featuring as it does an appendix full of advice on how to develop such programs.
With broad coverage of both basic science and clinical issues, comprising around 150 chapters from a diversity of international authors and including complementary video components, Neuroscience in the 21stCentury in its third edition serves as a comprehensive resource to students and researchers alike.
Contents Overview- Basic Neuroscience: Biophysics
- Basic Neuroscience: Development
- Basic Neuroscience: Cell Biology of Neurons and Glia
- Basic Neuroscience: Sensory Systems (Neuroanatomy and Physiology)
- Basic Neuroscience: Motor Control
- Basic Neuroscience: Neurophysiology of Other Specific CNS Regions and Networks
- Basic Neuroscience: Network Analyses in Mammalian Brains
- Basic Neuroscience: Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology
- Basic Neuroscience: Brain Energetics
- Basic Neuroscience: Neuroendocrinology
- Basic Neuroscience: Regulation of Natural Behaviors
- Basic Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience
- Basic Neuroscience: Emerging Experimental Techniques in Neuroscience – Genetics
- Basic Neuroscience: Emerging Experimental Techniques in Neuroscience – Imaging
- Basic Neuroscience: Emerging Experimental Techniques in Neuroscience – Computational Neuroscience
- Clinical Neuroscience: Developmental Disorders
- Clinical Neuroscience: Systems Disorders
- Clinical Neuroscience: Pain
- Clinical Neuroscience: Neuroimmune Disorders
- Clinical Neuroscience: Addictive Disorders
- Clinical Neuroscience: Degenerative Diseases
- Clinical Neuroscience: Gender Identity
- Clinical Neuroscience: Other Psychiatric Disorders
- Appendix
