Preface to First Edition
1. Thinking about the Brain: Body and Mind
2. How the Brain Works: History, Structure and Function
3. The Simplest Nervous Systems: Neurons, Nerve Nets, and
Behavior
4. Centralization and Symmetry: Ganglia and Nerves
5. The Basic Vertebrate Plan: Transverse Divisions
6. Neurogenesis: Longitudinal Divisions, Parts List, and Adult
Flatmap
7. Brain and Behavior: A Four Systems Network Model
8. The Motor System: Coordinating External and Internal
Behaviors
9. The Behavioral State System: Intrinsic Control of Sleep and
Wakefulness
10. The Cognitive System: Thinking and Voluntary Control of
Behavior
11. The Sensory System: Inputs from Environment and Body
12. Modifiability: Learning, Stress, Cycles, and Damage Repair
13. Genome and Connectome
Milo Don and Lucille Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles,USA
This short book deserves wide readership. It could serve both as a
general introduction for the undergraduate and as a means to wide
one's horizon for the experienced researcher.
*Jan Voogd, Science*
I was pleasantly surprised by the comparative and evolutionary
approach used to introduce the major concepts, and I was drawn in
by the historical context in which the story is told...a clearly
written and logically organized overview of the major functional
subdivisions of the vertebrate nervous system...Swanson's writing
style and his ability to present complicated systems and
relationships will make this book particularly accessible to
students, and generally useful to anyone interested in the
neurosciences...commendable job distilling the essential principles
from an exceptionally complex subject, making the brevity of this
book one of its greatest strengths.
*Kenneth C. Catania in Nature Neuroscience*
Larry Swanson, one of the great contemporary students of brain
anatomy, has given us a broad overview of the structure and
function of the brain using insights from embryology and from
evolutionary comparison to highlight the principles that govern the
anatomical substrates of behavior. This book will be read avidly by
both students and practicing scientists.
*Eric R. Kandel, MD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia
University, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine*
Neuroanatomy is usually associated with boring memorization and
dense terminology. But Swanson has brought the subject to life by
focusing on the principles that underlie brain structure and
function. These principles, illuminated by an historical
perspective and placed in an evolutionary context, actually
constitute a theory of brain. This book's logical organization,
intellectual sweep, and clear writing made it a joy for me to
read.
*Charles F. Stevens, MD, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The
Salk Institute for Biological Sciences*
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