The Rat Nervous System - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0443240787 ISBN 13: 9780443240782

Publisher: Academic Press, 2026

Synopsis

The Rat Nervous System, Fifth Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and students in neuroscience who are working on the rat and mouse as experimental models. The new edition provides thorough updates throughout, including the latest information in an active field of research on the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system and their unique functions. Readers will learn how to formulate sound hypotheses as well as carry out accurate research models.

• Adopts standard nomenclature aligned with the Atlas of the Human Brain
• Contains full color throughout
• Provides information that is applicable to other species, including the mouse and human, lending itself to many researchers

About this title

About the Authors

George Paxinos has written 62 books on the brain of humans, monkeys, rodents and birds. His first atlas, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, is the most cited neuroscience publication. His Atlas of the Human Brain received The Award for Excellence in Publishing in Medical Science (Assoc American Publishers, 1997) and The British Medical Association Illustrated Book Award (2016).

Dr. Mustafa (Steve) Kassem is a Senior Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and The University of New South Wales. He has authored two brain atlases, Atlas of the Developing Mouse Brain and Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Rat Brain. He developed a modification of the Golgi Stain, the Ultra-Rapid-Golgi stain, permitting use on cleared and fixed tissue and has assembled one of the largest online collections of histological material, brainreservoir.neura.edu.au. With Paxinos, Dalton and Smith, he constructed a unified list of CNS terms for humans, monkeys, rodents and birds.

From the Back Cover

The Rat Nervous System, Fifth Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and students in neuroscience alike working on the rat and mouse as experimental models. The new edition will provide thorough updates throughout, including providing the latest information in an active field of research on the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system as well as an introduction to their function.

The fifth edition of The Rat Nervous System enables the reader to formulate sound hypotheses as well as carry out research more accurately.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443240787
• ISBN 13: 9780443240782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1060
• Editor: Paxinos AO (BA MA PhD DSc) FASSA FAA George, Kassem PhD Mustafa Steve