Description
Supplementary Content Available on Oxford Medicine Online
About the Author
Irwin B. Levitan, Ph.D., Founding Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University Leonard K. Kaczmarek, Ph.D., Professor of Pharmacology and Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Reviews
The text is impressively modern, with up-to date information on the trendiest areas of neurobiology . . .the book is highly visual, with figures on virtually every page. The figures deserve special comment because they are a teacher's dream: simple and uncluttered, but conceptually powerful. Frankly, although the recommendation is often absurd, The Neuron is one of those books that really does belong on every shelf. * Nature *
The format of each chapter is ideally suited for easy, enjoyable, and almost effortless learning . . . This is a superbly written and well-illustrated text covering all of the major aspects of neuroscientific knowledge . . . every neuroscientist should keep a copy handy. * Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience *
This is a first-rate textbook for a course in cellular neurobiology for upper-level university students. My colleagues and I took it out on a shakedown cruise with a class of 250 undergraduates. The wind really caught their sails, and we sped quickly through it in the ten weeks of the academic quarter. The students appreciated the consistent clarity and the uniformity of style. The illustrations are highly conceptual and were easily understood . . . The up-to-date presentation of many exciting recent findings is a great strength. General principles are illustrated with a useful blend of data from vertebrate and invertebrate systems. * William S Messer, Jr., in The Quarterly Review of Biology *
An outstanding, easily readable, and quite up-to-date overview of fundamental neurobiology. * Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199773893
Author Irwin B. Levitan
Format Hardback
Page Count 600
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 170mm * 239mm * 33mm