The Thalamus 2 Volume Hardback Set
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 2/1/2007
EAN 9780521858816, ISBN10: 052185881X
Hardcover, 1708 pages, 31 x 23.1 x 8.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Edward G. Jones' The Thalamus is one of the most cited publications in neuroscience. Now more than 20 years on from its first printing, the author has completely rewritten his landmark volume, incorporating the numerous developments in research and understanding of the mammalian thalamus. As a leading authority on thalamus biology and function, Edward G. Jones shows how knowledge of the thalamus has developed with the introduction of new technologies and ideas. The author's photographic skills are exhibited in brilliant preparations of thalamic structure in a wide range of common and uncommon species. The Thalamus is both an up-to-date scientific review of virtually all aspects of forebrain function and a work of immense neuroscientific scholarship. It forms an essential reference for neuroanatomists, neurophysiologists, molecular neurobiologists, developmental neurobiologists and clinicians its deep historical perspective will be of value to historians of science.
Part I. History
1. The history of the thalamus
Part II. Fundamental Principles
2. Descriptions of the thalamus in representative mammals
3. Principles of thalamic organization
4. Thalamic neurons, synaptic organization and functional properties
5. Chemistry of the thalamus
Part III. Development
6. Development of the thalamus
Part IV. Individual Thalamic Nuclei
7. Ventral nuclei
8. Medial geniculate complex
9. Lateral geniculate nucleus
10. Lateral posterior and pulvinar nuclei
11. Posterior complex of nuclei
12. Intralaminar nuclei
13. Medial nuclei
14. Anterior nuclei and lateral dorsal nucleus
15. Ventral thalamus
16. Epithalamus
Part V. Comparative Structure
17. Comparative anatomy of the thalamus
18. The human thalamus
Part VI. Conclusions
19. Concluding remarks
References
Index.
'While the early edition was truly remarkable, the two-volume, second edition of 1679 pages of expanded size represents an effort reminiscent of Polyak's 1390-page tome ...The basic organization and many features of the first edition are carried over to the second, but this is bigger and better in every way. Most impressive, the second edition is profusely illustrated with drawings, photographs of investigators, and especially, photomicrographs of brain sections through the thalamus. The photomicrographs are not just of a brain section here and there, but of series of sections from the same cases, and not just from the laboratory species that we can view in the many stereotaxic atlases that are now available, but also of species such as tree shrews, galagos and the egg-laying monotremes.' Jon H. Kaas, Vanderbilt University