Overview
Comprehensive: Includes more than 10,000 entries - keynotes, in-depth essays and reviews - covering 43 topic fields, plus some 1,000 color figures
Complete: Covers the full range of modern neuroscience, from molecular neurobiology to brain architecture and from neurogenetics to neurophilosophy
Intelligently structured, accessible and user-friendly: A-Z format, clear, concise language and uniform essay structure provides easy access to content both for experts and newcomers
Authoritative: More than 1,000 expert contributors, under the guidance of more than 40 field editors, promise accurate and up-to-the-minute information
Convenient: Available both in print and as a fully searchable and hyperlinked electronic online edition
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About this book
Unique in its breadth and detail, this encyclopedia offers a comprehensive and highly readable guide to a complex and fast-expanding field.
The five-volume reference work gathers more than 10,000 entries, including in-depth essays by internationally known experts, and short keynotes explaining essential terms and phrases. In addition, expert editors contribute detailed introductory chapters to each of 43 topic fields ranging from the fundamentals of neuroscience to fascinating developments in the new, inter-disciplinary fields of Computational Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy. Some 1,000 multi-color illustrations enhance and expand the writings.
This user-friendly reference will be indispensable to basic and clinical scientists and practitioners in academia, hospitals, private practice, and industry, as a source of reliable information on the structure and function of the nervous system.
The Encyclopedia of Neuroscience opens the topic to health care professionals, students, teachers and informed laypersons who require relevant information on this rapidly evolving field.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“This is the best comprehensive text and handbook on the basic and clinical Neurosciences. Dr. M Binder is a well known international expert on sensorimotor physiology. Expert authors and editors discuss cardiac, respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurophysiology. … This is a must have read for physiologists.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, July, 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience
Editors: Marc D. Binder, Nobutaka Hirokawa, Uwe Windhorst
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29678-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-23735-8Published: 13 October 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: CCCLX, 4398
Topics: Neurosciences, Neurology