Research Catalog

Title

Comparative vertebrate neuroanatomy : evolution and adaptation / Ann B. Butler, William Hodos.

Author

Butler, Ann B.

Publication

New York : Wiley-Liss, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hodos, William.

Description

xvii, 514 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Subjects

• Nervous system > Evolution
• Neuroanatomy
• Nervous System
• Anatomy, Comparative
• Vertebrates > Anatomy
• Nervous system > Adaptation
• Vertebrates > anatomy & histology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Evolution and Variation -- 2. Neurons and Sensory Receptors -- 3. The Vertebrate Central Nervous System -- 4. Vertebrate Phylogeny and Diversity in Brain Organization -- 5. Evolution and Adaptation of the Brain, Behavior, and Intelligence -- 6. Theories of Brain Evolution -- 7. Overview of Spinal Cord and Hindbrain -- 8. The Spinal Cord -- 9. Segmental Organization of the Head, Brain, and Cranial Nerves -- 10. Functional Organization of the Cranial Nerves -- 11. Sensory Cranial Nerves -- 12. Motor Cranial Nerves -- 13. The Reticular Formation -- 14. The Cerebellum -- 15. Overview of the Midbrain -- 16. Isthmus -- 17. Tegmentum and Tori -- 18. Optic Tectum -- 19. Overview of the Forebrain -- 20. Pretectum and Posterior Tuberculum -- 21. Epithalamus -- 22. Dorsal Thalamus -- 23. The Visceral Brain: The Hypothalamus and the Autonomic Nervous System -- 24. Striatum -- 25. Dorsal Pallium -- 26. Visual Forebrain in Amniotes --
• 27. Somatosensory and Motor Forebrain in Amniotes -- 28. Auditory and Vocal Forebrain in Amniotes -- 29. Terminal Nerve and Olfactory Forebrain -- 30. Limbic Telencephalon -- 31. Evolution of the Brain in Vertebrates -- Appendix: Terms Used in Neuroanatomy.

ISBN

0471888893 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95049380

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries