Author: Gertie SöderbergPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Contributions to the Forebrain Morphology in Amphibians
Author: Gertie SöderbergContributions to the Forebrain Morphology in Selachians
Author: Kåre BäckströmComparative Neurology of the Telencephalon
Author: Sven O. EbbessonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461329884
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
When a young graduate student sat before Percival Bailey in 1960 and spoke of his longstanding interest in zoology and his recent interest in the nervous system, he asked the then Director of the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute if there was support in the scientific establishment for research in evolutionary comparative neurology. Bailey patted his abdomen with both hands and thought for a moment. Finally he said: "Young man, there is no place for people like you." The graduate student was crestfallen. To a large extent what Bailey said is still true. The greater part of research in neurobiology is directed toward answering a single broad question. How do brains in general, and the human brain in particular, work? This is a legitimate and important question. It is not, however, the only question worth answering. This overweening emphasis on function, especially in regard to the human nervous is a result of the origins of neurology in the clinic. The professional school, system, site of most such research, has been remarkably well-insulated from many of the major concerns of biology.
Frog Neurobiology
Author: R. LlinasPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642663168
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1056
Book Description
In review, the amount of information available on the morphological and func tional properties of the frog nervous system is very extensive indeed and in certain areas is the only available source of information in vertebrates. Further more, much of the now classical knowledge in neurobiology was originally ob tained and elaborated in depth in this vertebrate. To cite only a few examples, studies of nerve conduction, neuromuscular transmission, neuronal integration, sense organs, development, and locomotion have been developed with great detail in the frog and in conjunction provide the most complete holistic descrip tion of any nervous system. Added to the above considerations, the ease with which these animals may be maintained (both as adults and during development) and the advantage of their lower cost as compared with other vertebrate forms make the frog one of the most important laboratory animals in neurobiology. With these thoughts in mind, we decided to compile this volume. Our goal in doing so was to assemble as much as possible of the information available on frog neurobiology and to have the different topics covered by authorities in each of the fields represented. To keep the handbook restricted to one volume, we found it necessary to omit the large field of amphibian muscle neurobiology, which has already been summarized in various other publications.
Contributions to the Forebrain Morphology in Amphibians
Author: Gertie SöderbergContributions to the Forebrain Morphology in Amphibians
Author: Gertie SöderbergPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484727839
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Excerpt from Contributions to the Forebrain Morphology in Amphibians: Dissertation Complete series of sections have been made of the brain in urodeles of the families of Salamandra, Triton and Amblystoma, of adult specimens as well as at the larval stage. Triton embryons have been treated in the same manner as those of frogs, and have also been measured after fixation. Fibre preparations have likewise been employed of Triton and Salamandra. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Dissertations, 1909-1945
Author: Stockholms universitetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Comparative Structure and Evolution of Cerebral Cortex
Author: Edward G. JonesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780306434778
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The cerebral cortex, especially that part customarily designated "neocortex," is one of the hallmarks of mammalian evolution and reaches its greatest size, relatively speaking, and its widest structural diversity in the human brain. The evolution of this structure, as remarkable for the huge numbers of neurons that it contains as for the range of behaviors that it controls, has been of abiding interest to many generations of neuroscientists. Yet few theories of cortical evo lution have been proposed and none has stood the test of time. In particular, no theory has been successful in bridging the evolutionary gap that appears to exist between the pallium of nonmammalian vertebrates and the neocortex of mam mals. Undoubtedly this stems in large part from the rapid divergence of non mammalian and mammalian forms and the lack of contemporary species whose telencephalic wall can be seen as having transitional characteristics. The mono treme cortex, for example, is unquestionably mammalian in organization and that of no living reptile comes close to resembling it. Yet anatomists such as Ramon y Cajal, on examining the finer details of cortical structure, were struck by the similarities in neuronal form, particularly of the pyramidal cells, and their predisposition to laminar alignment shared by representatives of all vertebrate classes.
Acta Zoologica
Author: Nils Fritiof HolmgrenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
International journal for zoology.
Comparative Structure and Evolution of Cerebral Cortex, Part I
Author: Edward G. JonesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475796226
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The cerebral cortex, especially that part customarily designated "neocortex," is one of the hallmarks of mammalian evolution and reaches its greatest size, relatively speaking, and its widest structural diversity in the human brain. The evolution of this structure, as remarkable for the huge numbers of neurons that it contains as for the range of behaviors that it controls, has been of abiding interest to many generations of neuroscientists. Yet few theories of cortical evo lution have been proposed and none has stood the test of time. In particular, no theory has been successful in bridging the evolutionary gap that appears to exist between the pallium of nonmammalian vertebrates and the neocortex of mam mals. Undoubtedly this stems in large part from the rapid divergence of non mammalian and mammalian forms and the lack of contemporary species whose telencephalic wall can be seen as having transitional characteristics. The mono treme cortex, for example, is unquestionably mammalian in organization and that of no living reptile comes close to resembling it. Yet anatomists such as Ramon y Cajal, on examining the finer details of cortical structure, were struck by the similarities in neuronal form, particularly of the pyramidal cells, and their predisposition to laminar alignment shared by representatives of all vertebrate classes.