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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 612.8 EAN: 9780878936977 Edition: 4th ISBN: 0878936971 Label: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Manufacturer: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 810 Publication Date: July 31, 2007 Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Release Date: July 31, 2007 Studio: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Neuroscience is a comprehensive textbook created primarily for medical, premedical, and undergraduate students. In a single concise and approachable volume, the text guides students through the challenges and excitement of this rapidly changing field. The book s length and accessibility of its writing are a successful combination that has proven to work equally well for medical students and in undergraduate neuroscience courses. Being both comprehensive and authoritative, the book is also appropriate for graduate and professional use. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good diagrams and softwareThe software that comes with this book is actually useful, which veterans of college text books will find surprising. Also, the pictures and diagrams are very straightforward. The material is also covered at a good depth for undergraduates. Rating:  - Neuroscience: 4th ed.It was good, but required for med school. So I don't know if any other text books would be better Rating: - Excellent text for medical school.This is a great text for medical school courses. I use this in conjunction with the Blumenfeld text, and between these two texts I feel I am well prepared for most of the questions on the exam. The figures are particularly helpful, seeing as many of the professors use them directly in their powerpoint presentations. Rating:  - Hard to followThis book is a really tough read. I know neuroscience probably isn't supposed to be an easy read, but the author jumps all over the place. The chapters are divided up into broad sections with long heading names that don't always imply what the section is about. There are no subheadings or lists, just block text and pictures, making it difficult to outline the book in your notes. There are boxes about pathologies thrown in randomly throughout the chapter, but because the box begins when you are ... Read More Rating: - A good reference for mammalian nervous systemTake a look at the content page and you will know. However, be aware that almost all info are based on the mammalian system. If you are a developmentalist, or working in other systems, this might not be able to fulfill your need. Nevertheless, it is overall a very good reference. 
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