Publisher's Synopsis
Designed as a basic textbook of neuroscience, this book starts at ion channels and works its way through to psychiatric disease. It includes all the specialities of neuroscience - anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, pathology and, where applicable, psychology.;The book begins with a discussion of the basic principles of the nervous system including ion channels, action potentials, synapses, anatomy, embryology, molecular neurobiology and the techniques employed in the study of the nervous system. Sections are then devoted to the sensory and motor systems, and the general principles relating to the functional organization of the central nervous system. The author introduces the notion of neuropharmacological systems as opposed to functional or anatomical networks. The book concludes with material on the breakdown of these networks in psychiatric and neurological disease.
