Fully revised edition of the cellular and molecular neuroscience textbook intended for graduate and medical students
SECTION I. CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR 1. Cellular Components of Nervous
Tissue - Patrick R. Hof, Graham Kidd, Javier DeFelipe, Jean de
Vellis, Miguel A. Gama Sosa, Gregory A. Elder and Bruce D. Trapp 2.
Subcellular Organization of the Nervous System: Organelles and
Their Functions - Scott Brady and Peter Brophy 3. Energy Metabolism
in the Brain - Gerald Dienel 4. Intracellular Signaling - Howard
Schulman 5. Regulation of Neuronal Gene Expression and Protein
Synthesis - Cristina Alberini and Eric Klann 6. Modeling and
Analysis of Intracellular Signaling Pathways - Paul D. Smolen,
Douglas A. Baxter and John H. Byrne 7. Pharmacology and
Biochemistry of Synaptic Transmission: Classical Transmitters -
Ariel Y. Deutch and Robert H. Roth 8. Nonclassic Signaling in the
Brain - Ariel Y. Deutch, Andrea Giuffrida and James L. Roberts 9.
Connexin- and Pannexin-Based Channels in the Nervous System: Gap
Junctions and More - Juan C. Sáez and Bruce Nicholson 10.
Neurotransmitter Receptors - M. Neal Waxham 11. Molecular
Properties of Ion Channels - Jason Tien, Yuh Nung Jan and Lily Yeh
Jan
SECTION II. PHYSIOLOGY OF ION CHANNELS, EXCITABLE MEMBRANES
AND SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION 12. Membrane Potential and Action
Potential - David A. McCormick 13. Biophysics of Voltage-Gated Ion
Channels - Diane Lipscombe 14. Dynamical Properties of Excitable
Membranes - Douglas A. Baxter and John H. Byrne 15. Release of
Neurotransmitters - Robert S. Zucker, Dimitri M. Kullmann and
Pascal S. Kaeser 16. Postsynaptic Potentials and Synaptic
Integration - John H. Byrne 17. Cable Properties and Information
Processing in Dendrites - Michael Beierlein
SECTION III. INTEGRATION 18. Synaptic Plasticity - Ruth
Heidelberger, Harel Shouval, Robert S. Zucker and John H. Byrne 19.
Information Processing in Neural Networks - James J. Knierim 20.
Learning and Memory: Basic Mechanisms - John H. Byrne, Kevin S.
LeBar, Joseph LeDoux, Glenn E. Schafe and Richard F. Thompson 21.
Molecular Mechanisms of Neurological Disease - Monica Gireud,
Natalie Sirisaengtaksin and Andrew J. Bean
The June and Virgil Waggoner Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Dr. Byrne is an internationally acclaimed Neuroscientist. He received his PhD under the direction of Noble Prize winner, Eric Kandel. Dr. Byrne is a prolific author and Editor-in-Chief of Learning and Memory (CSHP). Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Dr. Heidelberger is an accomplished cellular neurophysiologist specializing in mechanisms of neurotransmitter release. She received her doctoral training under the guidance of Gary Matthews and her postdoctoral training under the direction of Nobel Laureate Erwin Neher. Dr. Heidelberger is a former president and executive board member of the Biophysical Society's Subgroup on Exocytosis and Endocytosis and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Neurophysiology. She has directed and taught graduate-level courses in cellular neurophysiology and membrane biophysics for more than a decade. The William Wheless III Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Dr. Waxham’s multi-disciplinary laboratory focuses on the molecular and cellular mechanisms of synaptic function and plasticity. He has developed and directed graduate-level courses in cellular and molecular neurobiology for more than two decades.
"Jack Byrne is unique in neuroscience. He is at once a first class
experimentalist, bringing to bear a variety of cellular, molecular
and imaging approaches to study the mechanisms of learning and
memory storage. Here his work has led to a number of penetrating
insights, including the first demonstration of operant conditioning
in Aplysia. But in addition, what makes Byrne’s thinking and work
so unique, is that it combines these experimental techniques with
realistic and creative mathematical modeling to determine the
extent to which the observed processes and interactions are
sufficient to explain the behavior of systems he studies.
This has led to his finding a series of paradigms for enhancing
memory storage that are quite remarkable. The Third Edition of From
Molecules to Networks is eloquent testimony to this synthesis, the
experimental and theoretical and to Jack Byrne’s extraordinary
teaching capability, and to his ability to explain science to both
students and scientists for which he was recently awarded the
National Neuroscience Educational Award." --Eric R. Kandel, MD,
Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, NY, USA
"Meshing together the diverse elements of neuroscience, from
molecules to man, is one of the great challenges of brain science.
Conveying the integrated story to readers coherently is a
major task. This third edition of the now classic From
Molecules to Networks text accomplishes all of this with elegance,
even better than the preceding two volumes. It will be of
inestimable value to student and professional alike." --Soloman H.
Snyder, MD, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of
Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
"Like the previous two editions, this new edition from Byrne,
Heidelberger and Waxham is a joy to read: The volume is beautifully
produced, the figures make their points perfectly, and the authors
of the various chapters are not only experts in their fields, but
also have the knack of explaining things clearly. The two best
things about this book, though, are that it is completely
up-to-date with an emphasis that matches excitement of the field,
and that the book’s structure, from molecules to neural circuits,
emphasizes organizational principles rather than the more
traditional treatment according to a list of neural
systems." --Charles F. Stevens, MD, PhD, Professor, The Salk
Institute, San Diego, CA, USa
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