neuroscience and neurobiology books

	The Computational Neurobiology of Reaching and Pointing: A Foundation for Motor Learning (Computational Neuroscience)
	By: Reza Shadmehr, Steven P. Wise ISBN: 0262195089 Publisher: The MIT Press Release Date: 01 January, 2005 Bioscience book rank: 734482
	Prospective Memory: Cognitive, Neuroscience, Developmental, and Applied Perspectives
	By: Matthias Kliegel, Mark A. McDaniel, Gilles O. Einstein ISBN: 080585858X Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Release Date: 16 October, 2007 Bioscience book rank: 450184
	Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience (Oklahoma Notes)
	By: Roger Brumback, R.R. Claudet ISBN: 0387946357 Publisher: Springer Release Date: 02 May, 1996 Bioscience book rank: 228027	This book was a great help for my review for the usmle step 2. It is an easy to read book , not so long and above all not boring at all. On the contrary it was very enjoyable. I would greatly recommend this book.
	Neuro-Acupuncture, Volume 1: Neuroscience Basics
	By: Z. H. Cho, E. K. Wong, J. Fallon ISBN: 0970645511 Publisher: Qpuncture, Inc Release Date: 15 October, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 774067	As an acupuncturist with a special interest in neurologically related conditions (autism, stroke, learning disabled) I was very excited to finally purchase this volume. However, once I opeened it up I was greatly disappointed. There is 5% acupuncture-related material combined with 95% neurology 101, and almost never do the twain ever meet. Basically, they took a basic college text book on neurology and then threw in a little 1st semester acupuncture, and then simply state aloud that there are theories (mind you, they are talking about acupuncture theories, not hard research, which show state that certain acupuncture points can be beneficial for neurologically-related issues. Well, I already learned about those points in school. I didn't need to spend over $60 to hear those re-iterated. I thought this was going to be a book which laid out theory and research which show that the fields are getting in tune with one another. Instead, I paid top money for a fair text book, and a worse acuupuncture primer. If you are interested in this topic I suggest you actually look into some of the papers that have been published, particularly in China, on this very interesting topic. <br /> <br /> <br /> This book kicks... if you want a crash course in neurology and neuro-anatomy. The pictures and wording is great for those of us with just a rudimentary knowledge of axons and dendrites. As for acupuncture though, I didn't feel like the book had a quality tie in with the two subjects. It was almost like he threw in info on acupuncture just at the end and he only explained what some mechanisms COULD be. If you are gonna make a book on neuro-acupuncture, show the studies of what it does. They are out there you just gotta use them. i read this book in korea. this book have many picture for help many oriental medicine students, because many oriental student have not basic neuroscience knowledge, what is mechanism for acupuncture and neuroscience part!<br>so this book help many student studying for acupuncture and neuroscience! good book!
	Psychophysiology: The Mind-Body Perspective (Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience)
	By: Kenneth Hugdahl ISBN: 0674005619 Publisher: Harvard University Press Release Date: 16 March, 2001 Bioscience book rank: 738262	This is a very readable book that give an excellent introduction to the systems of the body and how they interact with psychology. It is ideal for undergraduates, a graduate course with multi-disaplinary students, and those who want to extend their knowledge into this area (perhaps from psychology or physiology). However, if you are already familiar with many psychophysiological interactions, this book will probably not have the depth you require.
	Clinical Neuroanatomy and Neuroscience: With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access
	By: M. J. T. FitzGerald, Gregory Gruener, Estomih Mtui ISBN: 1416034455 Publisher: Saunders Release Date: 11 October, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 651235	This is a great text book. Broken down into small chapters that make it easy to sort out information.
	The Visual Neurosciences, 2 Volume Set, (Bradford Books)
	By: Leo M. Chalupa, John S. Werner ISBN: 0262033089 Publisher: The MIT Press Release Date: 01 November, 2003 Bioscience book rank: 762355	A great idea and a somewhat disappointing result. This book is missing one more volume that should have covered the anatomy of the vertebrate visual system. For some reason the editors have chosen to ignore a wealth of information on the anatomy of the amphibian, avian and mammalian vertebrate visual systems, without which visual neurophysiology cannot be fully understood or appreciated. Less specialized books, such as "Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy" by Butler and Hodos, cover visual neuroanatomy much better than this two-volume set. As a comprehensive reference book on visual neurophysiology, "The Visual Neurosciences" (which should have been called "Visual Neurophysiology") may well deserve a place in the neuroscientist's library. This is 2 Volume 2000pg Tome on Vision. It's comprehensive and covers most of the topics. The physiology, neuroanatomy, psychology, and imaging (i.e. fMRI, EEG, VEPs) of Vision are covered. There is a large section of 200 pages devoted exclusively to Visual Psychophysics. Very well respected authors contribute to these to volumes, giving it an international flavor. The book is meant as a reference text. There is a very extensive bibliography at the end of each chapter. It is a reference work so you can look up the chapter on MST (heading perception), V1 (primary visual cortex), MT (motion perception), ganglion cell recordings, retinal dark current & ion channels, illusions, and others. It will go into good depth in most areas. If you're in Vision Research, it is not enough, you will need more specialized books and journals (i.e. Machine Vision, Vision Research, Eye Movements). The format reminds me of the journal format for Nature Reviews Neuroscience. You better believe I am going to keep it in my library. The weakness of this set of books is that it does not cover Machine Vision, robotics, electronics, new technologies in vision, and it does not have an experimental methods section. Once reading, it can overwhelm you, so write down a list of 2 topics to look up each time you set-up to read it. This will easily be a standard reference for 7-10 years.
	The Neurobiology of Autism (The Johns Hopkins Series in Psychiatry and Neuroscience)
	By: Margaret L. Bauman, Thomas L. Kemper ISBN: 0801880475 Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press Release Date: 30 January, 2006 Bioscience book rank: 361137	no annecdotal nonsense here. Dr Bauman a Harvard neurologist who has studied the brains of those with autism for years. Her voluminous research dispels the causal myths of autism. Her evidence shows that the assault to the primitive brain affecting the limbic system and cerebellum manifesting as autism happens prenatally. An elusive and complex disorder is how autism is presented in this book. That's absolutely right, but I don't think this book even begins to give a clue as to the nature of autism. I think the approach has a lot to be desired: We have to assume that the nervous system evolved in order to gratify basic drives. In higher animals, basic drives are refined into emotions. So, what do the neurobiologists say? According to them, autism is a neurobiological problem, but not an emotional one! That's worse than just getting things bass-ackwards. It's being stubbornly reductionist and deliberately obtuse.
	Marijuana and Madness: Psychiatry and Neurobiology
	By: David Castle, Robin Murray ISBN: 0521819407 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Release Date: 14 June, 2004 Bioscience book rank: 740273
	The Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness (Cognition Special Issue)
	By: Stanislas Dehaene ISBN: 0262541319 Publisher: The MIT Press Release Date: 14 May, 2002 Bioscience book rank: 337140	This excellent book, written more for experts than for laymen, consists of eight closely linked papers, six written by cognitive neuroscientists, the remaining two by philosophers. Its primary raison d'etre is to discuss the relation between a human's response to his environment and his consciousness of it. It seems that we can muster certain responses to stimuli ONLY when we are conscious of those stimuli, but that other kinds of responses don't require consciousness. It seems to follow that the brain states accompanying consciousness of particular events are capable of executing functions that other brain states cannot. If true, this fact will help us to identify WHAT consciousness-producing brain-states look like, which is currently one of the chief goals of consciousness research. Speculation along these lines is provided. However, we need to know more about which behaviors only occur when consciousness is present. Further, many experiments will remain difficult to interpret until we understand better the relationship between conscious experiences and experimental subjects' reports ABOUT those experiences on which investigators rely for evidence. What happens if a subject sometimes reports having been conscious of an event when he wasn't, or vice versa? How can we verify/rule out that such things happen? Methodological issues along these lines are also discussed. <br /> <br />The main ideas presented in this book have been around for a long time, but until recently experiments allowing us verify/refine them, have been few and far between. In the last decade, as consciousness research has become a legitimate discipline, and as neuroscience research has exploded in general, the situation has improved, due in part to the research described here. <br /> <br />The book's organization is exemplary for its type. One of its distinguishing features is that the contributing authors read each others' papers and wrote about them in their own. As a result, experiments and ideas are revisited multiple times from different perspectives, an agreeable feature in a work on a subject as difficult as consciousness. What the book lacks in breadth it makes up for many times over (in my opinion) in the depth of its treatment of a few key issues. Along with Neural Correlates of Consciousness, this is the best book on consciousness yet. Nowhere else will you read anything that gets as close at explaining consciousness scientifically. Its main theme is the workspace theory, in neuropychological, cognitive, philosophical and neurobiological terms. Anyone familiar will notice how naturally this theory follows work done in the last 7 years on the science of consciousness. The theory is simple: conscious representations get their content from diverse modules, but this is not enough. The representations are made available globally to other modules. Synchronization attention,and spatial context help carry this out. Parietal, Frontal and probably cingular cortices are essential in this stage. Consciousness is the global availability of information through the distribuited workspace. <p>So in all,there is a consensus as to the adequacy of this theory. in quick review of literature, we have Edelman (2000)(Universe of Consciousness) who proposes a dynamc core distribuited in the thalamocortical system, coheherent activity in a sort of workspace. Singer (2000)(paper in NCOC)who postulates that neuronal assemblies are distribuited and accessible to many modules. Lumer(1998), Rees (1999)(papers in NCOC and journals) who find that consciousness is correlate with activity not only in sensory cortex, but parietal and frontal areas- that is, distribuited activity, in a global workspace. Baars (A cognitive theory of consicousness) of course has argued for global workspace theory for years. Papers by Kjaer (2001), Beck(2001), who also find similar evidence, etc.....<p>The book has 8 papers, every one a jewel. Dehaene reviews the theory and evidence that supports it, as well as placing it in a context of the scientific study of consicousness and its prospects. Driver et al. review neglect syndrome, and how it can serve as evidence for the workspace model, as well as how the model may explain the condition. Knwisher reviews evidence for the neural correlates of consciousness, and concludes that a form of the workspace model emerges. Merikle et al. discuss some methodological issues on unconsicous perception. Parvizi et al. discuss the neurofunctional role of the reticular activating system and its putative role on consciousness. Jack et al. discuss some methodological issues on instrospective reports, and propose an executive function model that fits in with the worspace model. Finally, Block and Dennett both philosophically analyze the workspace model. This is the Dennett paper that I agree with the most, almost in everything, but he again dismisses qualia as merely dispositions.<p>In short, this book presents the most exiting results on resent research of consicousness, from many prespectives. A consensus as to the neural correlates of consciousness is clearly emerging, and these are indeed exiting times. This book is a must for anyone who has ever wondered about how consciousness "emerges" from the brain. Absolutely great and necessary read.