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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Detailed contents
Preface
PART I: INTRODUCTORY ORIENTATION
1 Getting Ready for a Brain Structure Primer
2 Methods for Mapping Pathways and Interconnections That Enable the Integrative Activity of the CNS
PART II: THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, FROM INITIAL STEPS TO ADVANCED CHORDATES
3 Evolution of Multicellular Organisms with Neuron-Based Coordination
4 Expansions of the Neuronal Apparatus of Success
PART III: INTRODUCTION TO CONNECTION PATTERNS AND SPECIALIZATIONS IN THE EVOLVING CNS
5 The Ancestors of Mammals: Sketch of a Pre-mammalian Brain
6 Some Specializations Involving Head Receptors and Brain Expansions
7 The Components of the Forebrain Including the Specialty of the Mammals: The Neocortex
PART IV: DEVELOPMENT AND DIFFERENTIATION: SPINAL LEVEL
8 The Neural Tube Forms in the Embryo, and CNS Development Begins
9 The Lower Levels of Background Support: Spinal Cord and the Innervation of the Viscera
Intermission: The Ventricular System, the Meninges, and the Glial Cells
PART V: DIFFERENTIATION OF THE BRAIN VESICLES
10 Hindbrain Organization, Specializations, and Distortions
11 Why a Midbrain? Notes on Evolution, Structure, and Functions
12 Picturing the Forebrain with a Focus on Mammals
13 Growth of the Great Networks of Nervous Systems
PART VI: A BRIEF STUDY OF MOTOR SYSTEMS
14 Overview of Motor System Structure
15 Descending Pathways and Evolution
16 The Temporal Patterns of Movements
PART VII: BRAIN STATES
17 Widespread Changes in Brain State
PART VIII: SENSORY SYSTEMS
18 Taste
19 Olfaction
20 Visual Systems: Origins and Functions
21 Visual Systems: The Retinal Projections
22 The Visual Endbrain Structures
23 Auditory Systems
PART IX: THE FOREBRAIN AND ITS ADAPTIVE PRIZES: A SNAPSHOT
24 Forebrain Origins: From Primitive Appendage to Modern Dominance
PART X: THE HYPOTHALAMUS AND LIMBIC SYSTEM
25 Regulating the Internal Milieu and the Basic Instincts
26 Core Pathways of the Limbic System, with Memory for Meaningful Places
27 Hormones and the Shaping of Brain Structures
28 The Medial Pallium Becomes the Hippocampus
29 The Limbic Striatum and Its Outpost in the Temporal Lobe
PART XI: CORPUS STRIATUM
30 The Major Subpallial Structure of the Endbrain
31 Lost Dopamine Axons: Consequences and Remedies
Intermission: Neurogenesis in Mature Brains
PART XII: THE CROWN OF THE MAMMALIAN CNS: THE NEOCORTEX
32 Structural Origins of Object Cognition, Place Cognition, Dexterity, and Planning
33 Basic Neocortical Organization: Cells, Modules, and Connections
34 Structural Change in Development and in Maturity
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