Foundations of Neural Development

S. Marc Breedlove, the Barnett Rosenberg Professor of Neuroscience at Michigan State University, has written more than 130 scientific articles investigating the role of hormones in shaping the developing and adult nervous system, publishing in journals including Science, Nature, Nature Neuroscience, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. He is also passionate about teaching--in the classroom, and in the greatercommunity through interviews with the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and Newsweek, as well as broadcast programs including All Things Considered, Good Morning America, and Sixty Minutes. He has active grant supportfrom the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr. Breedlove is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Psychological Science.

• Prologue: The Rationalist Philosophers1. The Metazoans' Dilemma: Cell Differentiation and Neural Induction2. Coordinating Fates: Development of a Body Pattern3. Upward Mobility: Neurogenesis and Migration4. Seeking Identity: Neural Differentiation5. Feeling One's Way: Axonal Pathfinding6. Making Connections: Synapse Formation and Maturation7. Accepting Mortality: Apoptosis8. Distant Voices: Hormonally Guided Neural Development9. Expanding Your Worldview: Activity and Experience-Guided Neural Development10. Investing in the Next Generation: Socially Guided Neural DevelopmentEpilogue: Immanuel Kant and the Critique of Pure ReasonAppendixGlossaryReferencesIndex

Easy to read, thorough, beautiful figures, focuses on scientific process as well as content in a very undergrad-appropriate level.