Brain structure and its origins :
xxiv, 699 p. : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Content notes : 1. Getting ready for a brain structure primer --
2. Methods for mapping pathways and interconnections that enable the integrative activity of the CNS --
3. Evolution of multicellular organisms with neuron-based coordination --
4. Expansions of the neuronal apparatus of success --
5. The ancestors of mammals : sketch of a pre-mammalian brain --
6. Some specializations involving head receptors and brain expansions --
7. The components of the forebrain including the specialty of the mammals : the neocortex --
8. The neural tube forms in the embryo, and CNS development begins --
9. The lower levels of background support : spinal cord and the innervation of the viscera --
Intermission : The ventricular system, the meninges, and the glial cells --
10. Hindbrain organization, specializations, and distortions --
11. Why a midbrain? : notes on evolution, structure, and functions --
12. Picturing the forebrain with a focus on mammals --
13. Growth of the great networks of nervous systems --
14. Overview of motor system structure --
15. Descending pathways and evolution --
16. The temporal patterns of movements --
17. Widespread changes in brain state --
18. Taste --
19. Olfaction --
20. Visual systems : origins and functions --
21. Visual systems : the retinal projections --
22. The visual endbrain structures --
23. Auditory systems --
24. Forebrain origins : from primitive appendage to modern dominance --
25. Regulating the internal milieu and the basic instincts --
26. Core pathways of the limbic system, with memory for meaningful places --
27. Hormones and the shaping of brain structures --
28. The medial pallium becomes the hippocampus --
29. The limbic striatum and its outpost in the temporal lobe --
30. The major subpallial structure of the endbrain --
31. Lost dopamine axons : consequences and remedies --
Intermission : Neurogenesis in mature brains --
32. Structural origins of object cognition, place cognition, dexterity, and planning --
33. Basic neocortal organization : cells, modules, and connections --
34. Structural change in development and in maturity--
Index. Brain - Evolution.
