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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
Valerie Hedges
1. What is Neuroscience?
2. Cells of the Nervous System: The Neuron
3. Cells of the Nervous System: Glia
4. Visualizing Cells of the Nervous System
5. Ion Movement
6. Membrane Potential
7. The Membrane at Rest
8. Electrical Activity in Neurons
9. Action Potentials
10. Voltage Clamp
11. Synapse Structure
12. Steps in Synaptic Signaling
13. Neurotransmitter Identification and Action: Ionotropic Receptors versus Metabotropic Receptors
14. Introduction to Small Molecule Neurotransmitters
15. Neurotransmitters: Acetylcholine
16. Neurotransmitters: Amino Acid Neurotransmitters (Glutamate, GABA, Glycine)
17. Neurotransmitters: Biogenic Amines (Serotonin, Histamine)
18. Neurotransmitters: Catecholamines (Dopamine, Norepinephrine, Epinephrine)
19. Neurotransmitters: Atypical Neurotransmitters
20. Drug and Toxin Effects
21. Anatomical Terminology
22. Brain Structure Differentiation
23. Brain Anatomy
24. Additional Structures of the Nervous System
25. Imaging the Living Brain
26. Spinal Cord Structure
27. Peripheral Nervous System
28. General Principles of Sensory Systems
29. Visual System: The Eye
30. Visual System: Central Processing
31. Auditory System: The Ear
32. Auditory System: Central Processing
33. Vestibular System
34. Gustatory System
35. Olfactory System
36. Somatosensory Systems
37. Touch: The Skin
38. Touch: Central Processing
39. Pain and Nociception
40. Spinal Motor Control and Proprioception
41. Spinal Reflexes
42. Central Pattern Generators
43. Planning of Movement
44. Execution of Movement
45. Basal Ganglia
46. Neurodegenerative Diseases: Motor
47. Neurodegenerative Disease: Non-Motor
48. Motivated Behavior: Feeding Behavior
49. Motivated Behavior: Reward Pathway
50. Motivated Behavior: Sexual Behavior
51. Drug Addiction
52. Sexual Differentiation
53. Sex Steroid Hormones
54. Organizational and Activational Effects of Steroid Hormones
55. Social Bonding
56. Sleep and EEG
57. Circadian Rhythms
58. Emotions: Overview
59. Emotions: Fear
60. Neural Control of Stress
61. HPA Axis
62. Psychiatric Disorders: Anxiety
63. Psychiatric Disorders: Affective Disorders—Major Depression Disorder
64. Psychiatric Disorders: Affective Disorders—Bipolar Disorder
65. Psychiatric Disorders: Schizophrenia
66. Memory Systems
67. Molecular Mechanisms of Memory: Aplysia
68. Molecular Mechanisms of Memory: Hippocampus
Additional Review Answers
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Cover design provided by Valerie Hedges.
Cover brain artwork by Valerie Hedges.
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