• Medientyp: Buch
  • Titel: Developmental neuroscience : a concise introduction
  • Enthält: Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 IntroductionWhat Do We Mean When We Say "Neural Development"? -- What Is in This Book and How to Use It -- Methods for Studying Development of the Nervous System -- Human Brain Imaging -- The Future -- Notes -- Investigative Reading -- ch. 2 Overview of Nervous System Development in Humans -- How Do We Know What We Know? -- Start by Working Backward -- The Carnegie Stages of Embryonic Development -- Development of the Fetal Brain -- Neural Tube Defects -- Notes -- Investigative Reading -- ch. 3 Animal Models -- Model Organisms -- Some Helpful Concepts for Thinking about Animal Models -- Practical Considerations -- The Mouse, Mus musculus -- The Zebrafish, Danio rerio -- The Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster -- The Nematode Worm, Caenorhabditis elegans -- Typical Neurons -- Gray Matter and White Matter -- Phylogenetic Relationships -- Notes -- Investigative Reading -- ch. 4 Early Events -- Axis Determination and Neural Induction
    Contents note continued: Defining Anterior and Making a HeadNeural Induction -- Notes -- Investigative Reading -- ch. 5 Neurogenesis -- Production of Neurons by Neural Progenitors -- Neurogenesis in C. elegans -- Neurogenesis in Drosophila -- Neurogenesis in Zebrafish -- Neurogenesis in the Mouse -- Neurogenesis in Humans -- Adult Neurogenesis -- Notes -- Investigative Reading -- ch. 6 Later Events -- Not All Animals Are Segmented -- Regionalization in the Drosophila Nervous System -- Regionalization in the Vertebrate Nervous System -- Histogenesis of the Mammalian Cortex -- Notes -- Investigative Reading -- ch. 7 Becoming a Neuron -- Axons, Dendrites, and the Formation of Synapses -- The Decision to Grow a Process -- Microtubules, Actin, and Growth Cones -- Axon Path Finding -- Synaptogenesis -- Notes -- Investigative Reading -- ch. 8 Glia -- Glia and Neurons -- Glia in C. elegans -- Glia in Drosophila -- Glia in Zebrafish -- Glia in Mice -- Glia in Humans
    Contents note continued: Fruit Flies and GlioblastomaNotes -- Investigative Reading -- ch. 9 Maturation -- Growing Up -- Metamorphosis -- Adolescence -- Summary -- Notes -- Investigative Reading -- ch. 10 Thinking about Intellectual Disability in the Context of Development -- Neuroscience and Intellectual Disability -- Perturbations of Neuronal Migration -- Dendritic Abnormalities -- Neonatal Hypothyroidism -- Rett Syndrome -- Fragile X Syndrome -- Down Syndrome -- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome -- Nonmammalian Models -- Reality Check.
  • Beteiligte: Fahrbach, Susan E. [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Princeton, NJ [u.a.]: Princeton Univ. Press, 2013
  • Umfang: XXIII, 292 S; Ill., graph. Darst; 26 cm
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN: 0691150982; 9780691150987
  • RVK-Notation: WG 1000 : Genetik allgemein, Gesamtdarstellungen, Lehrbücher
  • Schlagwörter: Entwicklungsbiologie > Neurobiologie
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  • Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Signatur: WG 1000 F158
  • Barcode: 33835360