Show less. About the Authors. Prior to moving to MIT in , Dr. He was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for 22 years from to , and served as Director of the Picower Institute from to After receiving his B. Bear earned his Ph. He made fundamental discoveries on bidirectional synaptic plasticity, metaplasticity, the molecular basis of amblyopia a cause of visual disability in children , and the pathophysiology of fragile X syndrome the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and autism.
He has been at the forefront of the efforts to translate knowledge of autism pathophysiology into new treatments. Download e-Book. Posted on. Page Count. Bear, Mark F Bear,. Download e-Book Pdf. Second, liberal use of commonsense metaphors, realworld examples, humor, and anecdotes remind students that science is interesting, approachable, exciting, and fun.
Third, the course does not survey all of neurobiology. Instead, the focus is on mammalian brains and, whenever possible, the human brain.
In this sense, the course closely resembles what is taught to most beginning medical students. Similar courses are now offered at many colleges and universities by psychology, biology, and neuroscience departments.
The first edition of Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain was written to provide a suitable textbook for Neuro 1, incorporating the subject matter and philosophy that made this course successful. Based on feedback from our students and colleagues at other universities, we expanded the second edition to include more topics in behavioral neuroscience and some new features to help students understand the structure of the brain.
In the third edition, we shortened chapters when possible by emphasizing principles more and details less and made the book even more user-friendly by improving the layout and clarity of the illustrations. We must have gotten it right because the book now ranks as one of the most popular introductory neuroscience books in the world. It has been particularly gratifying to see our book used as a catalyst for the creation of new courses in introductory neuroscience.
The advances in neuroscience since publication of the third edition have been nothing short of breathtaking.
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