Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain (**)

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Over 80 pages are devoted to light transduction in rods and cones, retinal neuro-circuitry in generating opponent receptive fields, and the more complex receptive fields of the primary visual cortex. Instructors and students who want a concentrated dose of neuroanatomy will find all they need and more from web resources. Obviously, there are advantages and disadvantages a single-authored text as far as covering the demanding range of neuroscience in size and scale of neural analysis, molecular to systems, and context from basic molecular biology of neurons to brain generated behavioral acts. The developmental liability of cortical wiring due to experience will be familiar to readers of other textbooks.

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But the obvious advantage of a tag-team, multiple authors approach should be a guarantee that every chapter and topic in text would be covered by accomplished, well-known experts writing about her-his specialty. What I really liked about the textbook are the last two chapters: one on evolution of the nervous system, in which the role of genetics and development interact to produce the form that enables neural function. In the face of this challenge, I admire Professor Luo for tackling it in writing a new introductory textbook for our field. We, in conjunction with John Woolsey, with whom we have collaborated in the past, developed an expansive and, we believe, exceptional set of illustrations that, hand in hand with our words, describes and illuminates the world of the brain.

Today’s instructor(s) of entry level neuroscience courses have several choices of excellent textbooks, the most prominent that I’m aware of are “Principles of Neuroscience,” from Kandel et al. The chemical senses get greater coverage reflecting advances in this field as well as the strong molecular-cellular neurobiology emphasis of this text, in general. Students have online access to a “journal club,” flashcards, and their own access to animations and videos.

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The authors’ passion for the dynamic field of neuroscience is evident on every page, engaging students and helping them master the material. The human genome has been sequenced, sophisticated new methods have been developed for genetic engineering, and new methods have been introduced to enable visualization and stimulation of specific types of nerve cells and connections in the brain. The trade-off is that here you have a single author speaking with one voice and a consistent narrative rhythm. The authors' passion for the dynamic field of neuroscience is evident on every page, engaging students an.Includes a section for a younger audience -Neuromads-, where authors will publish articles accompanying each submission in a close and attractive language, that will be peer-reviewed by teenagers. In conclusion, Liqun Luo’s “Principles” is a welcome addition to an already excellent portfolio of introductory textbooks in neuroscience. The new Fourth Edition has been fully updated to reflect these and other rapid advances in the field, while honoring its commitment to be student-friendly with striking new illustrations, additional animations, and an unparalleled array of online resources. In just a few years, the field of neuroscience has been transformed by exciting new technologies and an explosion of knowledge about the brain.

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First, an entire chapter deals with neuroimaging technology, bringing together all the major techniques for studying the living brain in one place. The authors passion for the dynamic field of neuroscience is evident on every page, engaging students and helping them master the material.

Textual descriptions and explanations are depicted in clear diagrams that deploy color in ways that are informative and not distracting.