Behavior and Its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs

by Ronald Chase

During the past quarter century, there has been a tremendous expansion in our knowledge about gastropods, their behavior and their neurobiology. We can understand a great deal about mammaliam nervous systems by studying the relatively larger and simpler structure of the gastropod nervous system. Behavior and its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs first reviews the broader aspects of molluscan biology and draws attention to the special features of the gastropod nervous; system. The book then examines different types of behavior, reviewing progress in understanding the mechanisms of neural control, and emphasizing cases in which control can be attributed to identified neurons and indentified neural circuits.

314 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

I was born in Chicago, 1940, then lived in Los Angeles, 1948-1958. Stanford University, B.A, dropped out of Harvard Law School, Ph.D in Psychology from M.I.T. Postdoctoral research in Munich and Seattle before moving to Montreal in 1971. I taught neurobiology at McGill University for 38 years, during which time I also did research on snail brains and snail sex, hence my book, Behavior and its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs,.

Since my retirement, I have written about mental illness. The Physical Basis describes how one's philosophical views of the mind-body problem influence his or her attitudes toward mental illness. Schizophrenia is a much more personal book. It is both a memoir of my brother and a scientific account of the disease; this book was more than 50 years in the making.

The Making of Modern Psychiatry is an accessible account of the changes that occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century, mostly in Germany. The book focuses on the role of science

My latest book, Great Discoveries in Psychiatry , grew from a comment made by a reader of The Making of Modern Psychiatry. She was disappointed that the history told in The Making ended around the year 1900. What about all the great discoveries made since then? she asked. It didn’t take me long to come up with 15 really important discoveries. They begin early in the 19th century and continue right up to the present.

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Very valuable review of mollsucan neurobiology and behavior. While it's been a while since this was written, it still is incredibly valuable today!