Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology

Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology

by Constance Hammond PhD
Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology

Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology

by Constance Hammond PhD

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Overview

Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology, Third Edition, is the new, thoroughly revised edition of the only current, established, and authoritative text focusing on the cellular and molecular physiology of nerve cells. Previously titled Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology, the new title better reflects this focus. This version contains 80% new or updated material.

Fifteen appendices describing neurobiological techniques are interspersed in the text. Now in full color throughout, the book has over 400 carefully selected and constructed illustrations. It includes an instructor website with all the images in electronic format, plus additional material. The book is hypothesis driven rather than just presenting the facts, and the content is firmly based on numerous experiments performed by the top experts in the field.

While covering the important facts, the book also presents the background for how researchers arrived at this knowledge to provide a context for the field. It promotes a real understanding of the function of nerve cells that is useful for practicing neurophysiologists and students in a graduate-level course on the topic alike.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780323988117
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Publication date: 05/31/2024
Edition description: 5th ed.
Pages: 590
Sales rank: 1,006,021
Product dimensions: 8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

About the Author

Constance Hammond is an INSERM director of research at the Mediterranean Institute of Neurobiology. A renowned Parkinson's disease investigator, in 2012 she became a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in recognition for her services to scientific communication. Studying biology at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris she completed her thesis in neurosciences at the Marey Institute in Paris, directed by Prof. D. Albe-Fessard. Guided by her curiosity and her constant desire to learn, she changed lab and research domains several times. With the knowledge of other systems and the mastering of other techniques she finally came back to her first and preferred subject of research; the role of the subthalamic nucleus in the basal ganglia system in health and Parkinson's disease.

Table of Contents

1. Neurons
2. Neuron-glial cell cooperation
3. Ionic gradients
4. How to record neuronal activity (+ films)
5. The voltage-gated channels of Na action potentials
6. The voltage-gated channels of Ca action potentials
7. The chemical synapses
8. Neurotransmitter release (+ animations)
9. The ionotropic nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
10. The ionotropic GABA-A receptor (+ films)
11. The ionotropic glutamate receptors (+ films)
12. The ionotropic receptors of sensory transduction : example of TRP channels
13. The metabotropic GABAB receptors
14. The metabotropic glutamate receptors
15. The metabotropic receptors for sensory transduction : example of olfatory receptors
16. Somato-dendritic processing of postsynaptic potentials I
17. Subliminal voltage-gated currents of the somato dendritic membrane
18. Somato-dendritic processing of postsynaptic potentials II
19. Somato-dendritic processing of postsynaptic potentials III
20. Firing patterns of neurons
21. Synaptic plasticity
22. The development of the hippocampal network
23. The adult hippocampal network
24. Exercises

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