BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM -- THE BRAIN -- CEREBRUM -- BRAINSTEM -- CEREBELLUM -- THE SPINAL CORD -- CELLULAR LAMINAE -- ASCENDING SPINAL TRACTS -- DESCENDING SPINAL TRACTS -- CHAPTER 2 THE PERIPHERAL AND AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEMS -- THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM -- SPINAL NERVES -- CRANIAL NERVES -- THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM -- SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM -- PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM -- ENTERIC NERVOUS SYSTEM -- CHAPTER 3 FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM -- IDENTIFYING NEURAL PATHWAYS -- RECEPTORS -- AUTONOMIC CONTROL OF ORGANS -- THE EYE -- THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM -- THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM -- THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM -- THE URINARY SYSTEM -- HIGHER CEREBRAL FUNCTIONS -- ANALYTICAL APPROACHES -- HEMISPHERIC ASYMMETRY, HANDEDNESS, AND CEREBRAL DOMINANCE -- LANGUAGE -- MEMORY -- EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE FRONTAL LOBES -- CHAPTER 4 THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN MOTION -- REFLEX ACTIONS -- SENSORY RECEPTORS OF MOVEMENT -- BASIC ORGANIZATION OF MOVEMENT -- LOWER-LEVEL MECHANISMS OF MOVEMENT -- HIGHER-LEVEL MECHANISMS OF MOVEMENT -- THE VESTIBULAR SYSTEM -- SACCULE AND UTRICLE -- SEMICIRCULAR CANALS -- NERVE SUPPLY -- VESTIBULAR FUNCTIONS -- VESTIBULO-OCULAR REFLEX -- CONSCIOUS SENSATION -- CHAPTER 5 PERCEPTION, SENSATION, AND NEUROPLASTICITY -- PERCEPTION -- GENERAL ORGANIZATION OF PERCEPTION -- VISION -- HEARING -- THEORIES OF PAIN SENSATION -- EMOTION AND BEHAVIOUR -- NEUROPLASTICITY -- TYPES OF CORTICAL NEUROPLASTICITY -- BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE -- CHAPTER 6 NEUROBIOLOGICAL DISORDERS OF DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOUR -- NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS -- CEREBRAL PALSY -- PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS -- AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS -- AUTISM -- ASPERGER SYNDROME -- PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED -- CHILDHOOD DISINTEGRATIVE DISORDER -- RETT SYNDROME.

MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS -- SCHIZOPHRENIA -- DEPRESSION -- BIPOLAR DISORDER -- ANXIETY DISORDERS -- ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER -- CHAPTER 7 NEUROLOGICAL AND NEURODEGENERATIVE DISORDERS AFFECTING THE BRAIN -- DEMENTIA -- PICK DISEASE -- ALZHEIMER DISEASE -- ESSENTIAL TREMOR -- PARKINSONISM -- PARKINSON DISEASE -- DYSTONIA -- CHOREA -- SYDENHAM CHOREA -- HUNTINGTON DISEASE -- EPILEPSY -- PARTIAL SEIZURES -- GENERALIZED SEIZURES -- DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT -- MENINGITIS -- ENCEPHALITIS -- BRAIN CANCER -- CAUSES AND SYMPTOMS -- DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT -- CHAPTER 8 OTHER DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEMS -- DISEASES OF THE BRAINSTEM -- TRAUMA -- SLEEP DISORDERS -- BRAIN DEATH -- DEMYELINATING DISEASES -- MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS -- ATAXIA -- DISEASES OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM -- NEUROPATHIES -- MYASTHENIA GRAVIS -- MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY -- CONGENITAL MYOPATHY -- OTHER INHERITED MUSCLE DISEASES -- DISEASES OF THE CRANIAL NERVES -- NEUROBLASTOMA -- DIAGNOSIS -- BIOLOGICAL AND GENETIC FACTORS -- TREATMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF TARGETED THERAPIES -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.