Normal view MARC view ISBD view

Building brains : an introduction to neural development / David Price ... [et al.]. - Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. - xv, 331 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Models and methods for studying neural development -- The anatomy of developing nervous systems -- Neural induction : an early example of how intercellular signalling determines cell fates -- Patterning the neuroectoderm -- Neurogenesis : generating neural cells -- Neuronal migration -- How neurons develop their shapes -- Axon pathfinding : the long and winding road -- Map formation -- Maturation of functional properties -- Life and death in the developing nervous system -- Experience-dependent development.

ISBN: 9780470712306 (cloth) 0470712309 (cloth) 9780470712290 (pbk.) 0470712295 (pbk.) 9780470979631 (ePDF) 0470979631 (ePDF) 9780470979624 (Wiley Online Library) 0470979623 (Wiley Online Library) 9780470979884 (ePub) 0470979887 (ePub)

LCCN: 2010053724

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101550259 DNLM 015668756 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Developmental neurobiology.
Nervous system--Growth.
Neurons--physiology.
Nervous System--anatomy & histology.
Neurogenesis.

LC Class. No.: QP363.5 / .B85 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 612.8

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2011 G-640 WL 102.5