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Neural Circuit Development and Function in the Healthy and Diseased Brain

Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience

The genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms of neural development are essential for understanding evolution and disorders of neural systems. Recent advances in genetic, mo… Read more

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The genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms of neural development are essential for understanding evolution and disorders of neural systems. Recent advances in genetic, molecular, and cell biological methods have generated a massive increase in new information, but there is a paucity of comprehensive and up-to-date syntheses, references, and historical perspectives on this important subject. The Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience series is designed to fill this gap, offering the most thorough coverage of this field on the market today and addressing all aspects of how the nervous system and its components develop. Particular attention is paid to the effects of abnormal development and on new psychiatric/neurological treatments being developed based on our increased understanding of developmental mechanisms. Each volume in the series consists of review style articles that average 15-20pp and feature numerous illustrations and full references. Volume 3 offers 40 high level articles devoted mainly to anatomical and functional development of neural circuits and neural systems, as well as those that address neurodevelopmental disorders in humans and experimental organisms.

Key features

  • Series offers 144 articles for 2904 full color pages addressing ways in which the nervous system and its components develop
  • Features leading experts in various subfields as Section Editors and article Authors
  • All articles peer reviewed by Section Editors to ensure accuracy, thoroughness, and scholarship
  • Volume 3 sections include coverage of: mechanisms that control the assembly of neural circuits in specific regions of the nervous system, multiple aspects of cognitive development, and disorders of the nervous system arising through defects in neural development

Readership

Neuroscientists (developmental and translational) and developmental biology researchers

Table of contents

I: Circuit Development

1. The Form and Functions of Neural Circuits in the Olfactory Bulb
G. Lepousez, P.-M. Lledo

2. Functional Circuit Development in the Auditory System
D.B. Polley, A.H. Seidl, Y. Wang, J.T. Sanchez

3. Development of the Superior Colliculus/Optic Tectum
B.E. Stein, T.R. Stanford

4. Multisensory Circuits
A.J. King

5. Cerebellar Circuits
M. Kano, M. Watanabe

6. Dendritic Spines
D. Muller, I. Nikonenko

7. Cortical Columns
Z. Molnár

8. Neonatal Cortical Rhythms
R. Khazipov, M. Colonnese, M. Minlebaev

9. Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity
D.E. Shulz, D.E. Feldman

II: Cognitive Development

10. Introduction to Cognitive Development from a Neuroscience Perspective
H. Tager-Flusberg

11. Theories in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
M.H. Johnson

12. Structural Brain Development: Birth Through Adolescence
J.B. Colby, E.D. O'Hare, J.E. Bramen, E.R. Sowell

13. Statistical Learning Mechanisms in Infancy
J. Lany, J.R. Saffran

14. Development of the Visual System
S.P. Johnson

15. The Development of Visuospatial Processing
J. Stiles, N. Akshoomoff, F. Haist

16. Memory Development
P.J. Bauer

17. Early Development of Speech and Language: Cognitive, Behavioral, and Neural Systems
H. Tager-Flusberg, A.M. Seery

18. The Neural Architecture and Developmental Course of Face Processing
G. Righi, C.A. Nelson III

19. Developmental Neuroscience of Social Perception
A. Voos, C. Cordeaux, J. Tirrell, K. Pelphrey

20. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience of Theory of Mind
H. Gweon, R. Saxe

21. A Neuroscience Perspective on Empathy and Its Development
J. Decety, K.J. Michalska

22. Developing Attention and Self-Regulation in Infancy and Childhood
M.I. Posner, M.K. Rothbart, M.R. Rueda

23. The Neural Correlates of Cognitive Control and the Development of Social Behavior
A. Lahat, N.A. Fox

24. Executive Function: Development, Individual Differences, and Clinical Insights
C. Hughes

25. The Effects of Stress on Early Brain and Behavioral Development
M.R. Gunnar, E.P. Davis

26. Sex Differences in Brain and Behavioral Development
A.M. Beltz, J.E.O. Blakemore, S.A. Berenbaum

III: Diseases

27. Neural-Tube Defects
C. Pyrgaki, L. Niswander

28. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: Targeted Effects of Ethanol on Cell Proliferation and Survival
S.M. Mooney, P.J. Lein, M.W. Miller

29. Azetidine-2-Carboxylic Acid and Other Nonprotein Amino Acids in the Pathogenesis of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
E. Rubenstein

30. Down Syndrome
A.B. Bowman, K.C. Ess, K.K. Kumar, K.L. Summar

31. Lissencephalies and Axon Guidance Disorders
E.H. Sherr, L. Fernandez

32. Developmental Disabilities, Autism, and Schizophrenia at a Single Locus: Complex Gene Regulation and Genomic Instability of 15q11–q13 Cause a Range of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
N. Urraca, L.T. Reiter

33. Fragile X Clinical Features and Neurobiology
M.J. Leigh, R.J. Hagerman

34. Autisms
M. Persico

35. Neurodevelopmental Genomics of Autism, Schizophrenia, and Related Disorders
J.F. Cubells, D. Moreno-De-Luca

36. Excitation–Inhibition Epilepsies
A.X. Thomas, A.R. Brooks-Kayal

37. Sensory Organ Disorders (Retina, Auditory, Olfactory, Gustatory)
D.C. Gillespie

38. The Developmental Neurobiology of Repetitive Behavior
S.-J. Kim, M. Lewis, J. Veenstra-VanderWeele

39. Disorders of Cognitive Control
B.J. Casey, N. Franklin, M.M. Cohen

40. Language Impairment
R.H. Fitch
Index

Review quotes

"This is a comprehensive and information-packed book on neural circuit development and function. There have been tremendous advances over the past several years in understanding brain function as it relates to structure, but this information has not been easily accessible by clinicians and researchers. This book, written and edited by outstanding researchers in the field, provides this important information in an organized and relevant fashion… I highly recommend it."Rating: 3 Stars —Doody.com, January 17, 2014

"This is the third of a three volume series that is intended to summarize the current state of developmental neuroscience. There are three sections with Rubenstein and Rakic as chief editors and each section having a section editor tasked with peer reviewing the articles therein."—Reference & Research Book News, December 2013

Product details

About the editors

JR

John Rubenstein

Dr. Rubenstein is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He also serves as a Nina Ireland Distinguished Professor in Child Psychiatry at the Nina Ireland Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology. His research focuses on the regulatory genes that orchestrate development of the forebrain. Dr. Rubenstein's lab has demonstrated the role of specific genes in regulating neuronal specification, differentiation, migration and axon growth during embryonic development and on through adult life. His work may help to explain some of the mechanisms underlying human neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, USA

PR

Pasko Rakic

Dr. Rakic is currently at the Yale School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, where his main research interest is in the development and evolution of the human brain. After obtaining his MD from the University of Belgrade School of Medicine, his research career began in 1962 with a Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University after which he obtained his graduate degrees in Developmental Biology and Genetics. He held a faculty position at Harvard Medical School for 8 years prior to moving to Yale University, where he founded and served as Chair of the Department of Neurobiology for 37 years, and also founder and director of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience. In 2015, he returned to work full-time on his research projects, funded by US Public Health Services and various private foundations. He is well known for his studies of the development and evolution of the brain, in particular his discovery of basic cellular and molecular mechanisms of proliferation and migration of neurons in the cerebral cortex. He was president of the Society for Neuroscience and popularized this field with numerous lectures given in over 35 counties. In 2008, Rakic shared the inaugural Kavli Prize in Neuroscience with Thomas Jessell and Stan Grillner. He is currently the Dorys McConell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and serves on Advisory Boards and Scientific Councils of a number of Institutions and Research Foundations.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, USA

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