The Synaptic Organization of the Brain - Softcover

Shephard, Gordon M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195025490 ISBN 13: 9780195025491

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1979

Synopsis

An extensively updated edition of Gordon M. Shepherd's book which has had important influence on new concepts concerning the vertebrate brain and its organization of synapses and neuronal systems

About this title

About the Author

Gordon M. Shepherd is at Yale University School of Medicine.

Review

From reviews of previous editions:

"This is...a reference textbook that has served generations of neuroscientists at all levels of their career for a quarter century. It is like a wise and trusted mentor, who is always there for you...The marvel of the book in all editions is how much information is packed into such a small number of pages, yet it is comprehensible...any college or university instructor who teaches neurobiology ought to read this book, for it provides a depth of knowledge and perspective that cannot be gained from a (bad) strategy of knowing the course textbook cold and staying a few chapters ahead of one's students."--Contemporary Psychology

"The book remains a staple, and should be on the shelf of any serious neuroscientist."--The Quarterly Review of Biology

"By any measure this work is a classic...It will undoubtedly take its place as one of the most significant and comprehensive commentaries of our time on structure and function of nervous tissue."--Electrocephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology

"This well-organized volume clearly summarizes knowledge of neuronal interaction in several brain regions and assimilates new findings to the classical view of neuron communication."--Journal of the American Medical Association

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195025490
• ISBN 13: 9780195025491
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 436