A comprehensive, clearly written textbook that provides a balance of animal and human studies to discuss the dynamic field of neuroscience from cellular signaling to cognitive function. Neuroscience, Sixth Edition is intended primarily for medical, premedical, and undergraduate students. The book's length and accessibility of its writing are a successful combination that has proven to work equally well for medical students and in undergraduate neuroscience courses. Being both comprehensive and authoritative, the book is also appropriate for graduate and professional use. New to this edition: An expanded Cognitive Neuroscience unit includes new chapters on Attention, Decision Making, and Evolution of Cognitive Functions Reorganisation across the book enhances continuity The Neural Signaling unit has been expansively updated Clinical Applications boxes have been added Web Essays provide novel or historical topics for special discussion.

Preface.- Chapter 1. Studying the Nervous System.- UNIT I. NEURAL SIGNALING.- Chapter 2. Electrical Signals of Nerve Cells .- Chapter 3. Voltage-Dependent Membrane Permeability.- Chapter 4. Ion Channels and Transporters.- Chapter 5. Synaptic Transmission.- Chapter 6. Neurotransmitters and Their Receptors.- Chapter 7. Molecular Signaling within Neurons.- Chapter 8. Synaptic Plasticity.- UNIT II. SENSATION AND SENSORY PROCESSING.- Chapter 9. The Somatosensory System: Touch and Proprioception.- Chapter 10. Pain.- Chapter 11. Vision: The Eye.- Chapter 12. Central Visual Pathways.- Chapter 13. The Auditory System.- Chapter 14. The Vestibular System.- Chapter 15. The Chemical Senses.- UNIT III. MOVEMENT AND ITS CENTRAL CONTROL.- Chapter 16. Lower Motor Neuron Circuits and Motor Control.- Chapter 17. Upper Motor Neuron Control of the Brainstem and Spinal Cord.- Chapter 18. Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia.- Chapter 19. Modulation of Movement by the Cerebellum.- Chapter 20. Eye Movements and Sensory Motor Integration.- Chapter 21. The Visceral Motor System.- UNIT IV. THE CHANGING BRAIN.- Chapter 22. Early Brain Development.- Chapter 23. Construction of Neural Circuits.- Chapter 24. Circuit Differentiation: Intrinsic Factors and Sex Differences.- Chapter 25. Modification of Neural Circuits as a Result of Experience.- Chapter 26. Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System.- UNIT V. COMPLEX BRAIN FUNCTIONS AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE.- Chapter 27. Cognitive Functions and the Organization of the Cerebral Cortex.- Chapter 28. Cortical States.- Chapter 29. Attention.- Chapter 30. Memory.- Chapter 31. Emotion.- Chapter 32. Thinking, Planning, and Deciding.- Chapter 33. Speech and Language.- Chapter 34. Development and Evolution of Cognitive Functions.- Appendix: Survey of Human Neuroanatomy.- Atlas: The Human Central Nervous System.- Glossary.