Neuroscience is a comprehensive textbook created primarily for medical, premedical, and undergraduate students. In a single concise and approachabl...
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Aug 25, 2010
Jim
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(updated 8/25/10)
Many medical schools, including the one where I teach, use this as the standard neuroscience-survey textbook for both medical and graduate students. It is generally well-written, highly authoritative, and very well-illustrated. There are 3 or 4 other textbooks that are used by some schools for the same purpose; in general, the others are much longer and somewhat more challenging to read.
I would recommend this book as a very good introduction to the field of neu More...
Many medical schools, including the one where I teach, use this as the standard neuroscience-survey textbook for both medical and graduate students. It is generally well-written, highly authoritative, and very well-illustrated. There are 3 or 4 other textbooks that are used by some schools for the same purpose; in general, the others are much longer and somewhat more challenging to read.
I would recommend this book as a very good introduction to the field of neu More...
May 18, 2010
DJ
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This book has a nasty habit of mistaking naming for explaining, but it served the purpose of introducing an egghead physicist/mathematician to the messy biological world of neuroscience. If nothing else, its convincing evidence that neuroscience needs theorists.
If (Amount of jargon) > (Space in a human brain),
then FindTheorists.
If (Amount of jargon) > (Space in a human brain),
then FindTheorists.
May 13, 2008
Matt
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This book was at first a foreign language book for me. I really had to study the scientific language to make any sense of it, but that study led to a great appreciation for neuroscience.
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