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Chapter 8
How Does the Nervous System Develop and Adapt?
8-1 Three Perspectives on Brain Development
RESEARCH FOCUS 8-1 Linking Socioeconomic Status to Cortical Development
Correlating Emerging Brain Structures with Emerging Behaviors
Correlating Emerging Behaviors with Neural Maturation
Identifying Influences on Brain and Behavior
8-2 Neurobiology of Development
Gross Development of the Human Nervous System
Origins of Neurons and Glia
Neuronal Growth and Development
CLINICAL FOCUS 8-2 Autism Spectrum Disorder
Glial Development
Unique Aspects of Frontal Lobe Development
8-3 Using Emerging Behaviors to Infer Neural Maturation
Motor Behaviors
Language Development
Development of Problem-Solving Ability
EXPERIMENT 8-1 Question: In what sequence do the forebrain structures required for learning and memory mature?
A Caution about Linking Correlation to Causation
8-4 Brain Development and the Environment
Experience and Cortical Organization
RESEARCH FOCUS 8-3 Keeping Brains Young by Making Music
Environmental Influences on the Pace of Brain Development
Experience and Neural Connectivity
Critical Periods for Experience and Brain Development
Gut Bacteria and Brain Development
8-5 Abnormal Experience and Brain Development
Aversive Experience and Brain Development
CLINICAL FOCUS 8-4 Romanian Orphans
Injury and Brain Development
Other Sources of Abnormal Brain Development
CLINICAL FOCUS 8-5 Schizophrenia
Developmental Disability
How Do Any of Us Develop a Normal Brain?

Chapter 11
How Does the Nervous System Respond to Stimulation and Produce Movement?
11-1 Hierarchical and Parallel Movement Control
RESEARCH FOCUS 11-1 Neuroprosthetics
The Basics: Relating the Somatosensory and Motor Systems
Forebrain: Initiating Movement
Brainstem: Species-Typical Movement
EXPERIMENT 11-1 Question: What are the effects of brainstem stimulation under different conditions?
CLINICAL FOCUS 11-2 Cerebral Palsy
Spinal Cord: Executing Movement
11-2 Motor System Organization
Motor Cortex
Mapping the Motor Cortex
Motor Cortex and Skilled Movement
EXPERIMENT 11-2 Question: How does the motor cortex take part in the control of movement?
Plasticity in the Motor Cortex
EXPERIMENT 11-3 Question: What is the effect of rehabilitation on the cortical representation of the forelimb after brain damage?
Corticospinal Tracts
Motor Neurons
Control of Muscles
11-3 Basal Ganglia, Cerebellum, and Movement
Basal Ganglia and the Force of Movement
CLINICAL FOCUS 11-3 Tourette Syndrome
Cerebellum and Movement Skill
EXPERIMENT 11-4 Question: Does the cerebellum help make adjustments required to keep movements accurate?
11-4 Somatosensory System Receptors and Pathways
Somatosensory Receptors and Perception
Posterior Root Ganglion Neurons
Somatosensory Pathways to the Brain
Spinal Reflexes
Feeling and Treating Pain
RESEARCH FOCUS 11-4 Phantom Limb Pain
Vestibular System and Balance
11-5 Exploring the Somatosensory Cortex
Somatosensory Body Map
RESEARCH FOCUS 11-5 Tickling
Secondary Somatosensory Cortex
Effects of Somatosensory Cortex Damage
Somatosensory Cortex and the Hierarchy and Parallel Control of Movement

Chapter 12
What Causes Emotional and Motivated Behavior?
12-1 Identifying the Causes of Behavior
RESEARCH FOCUS 12-1 The Pain of Rejection
Behavior for Brain Maintenance
Neural Circuits and Behavior
Evolutionary Influences on Behavior
Environmental Influences on Behavior
12-2 Neuroanatomy of Motivated Behavior
Regulatory and Nonregulatory Behavior
Activities of the Hypothalamic Circuit
12-3 The Role of the Chemical Senses in Motivated Behavior
Olfaction
Gustation
Impairments in the Chemical Sense and Behavior
12-4 Control of Regulatory Behavior
Controlling Eating
EXPERIMENT 12-1 Question: Does the hypothalamus play a role in eating?
CLINICAL FOCUS 12-2 Diets and Rhythms
Controlling Drinking
12-5 Sexual Differences and Sexual Behavior
Sexual Differentiation of the Brain
RESEARCH FOCUS 12-3 The Brain Gender Continuum
Effects of Sex Hormones on the Brain
CLINICAL FOCUS 12-4 Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome and the Androgenital Syndrome
Neural Control of Sexual Behavior
Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, and Brain Organization
Cognitive Influences on Sexual Behavior
12-6 The Neural Control of Emotion
Theories of Emotion
Emotion and the Limbic Circuit
CLINICAL FOCUS 12-5 Agenesis of the Frontal Lobes
12-7 Reward
The Reward System
Mapping Pleasure in the Brain
Pleasure Electrodes?

Chapter 15
How Does the Brain Think?
15-1 The Nature of Thought
RESEARCH FOCUS 15-1 Split Brain
Characteristics of Human Thought
Neural Units of Thought
COMPARATIVE FOCUS 15-2 Animal Intelligence
EXPERIMENT 15-1 Question: How do individual neurons mediate cognitive activity?
15-2 Cognition and the Association Cortex
Knowledge about Objects
Multisensory Integration
Spatial Cognition
Attention
Planning and Executing Functioning
Imitation and Understanding
15-3 Expanding Frontiers of Cognitive Neuroscience
Mapping the Brain
CLINICAL FOCUS 15-3 Neuropsychological Assessment
Mapping the Brain
Cognition and the Cerebellum
Social Neuroscience
Neuroeconomics
15-4 Cerebral Asymmetry in Thinking
Anatomical Asymmetry
Functional Asymmetry in Neurological Patients
Functional Asymmetry in the Healthy Brain
Functional Asymmetry in the Split Brain
EXPERIMENT 15-2 Question: Will severing the corpus callosum affect the way in which the brain responds?
EXPERIMENT 15-3 (A) Question: How can the right hemisphere of a split-brain patient show that it knows information? (B) Question: What happens if both hemispheres are asked to respond to competing information?
Explaining Cerebral Asymmetry
Left Hemisphere, Language, and Thought
15-5 Variations in Cognitive Organization
Sex Differences in Cognitive Organization
Handedness and Cognitive Organization
CLINICAL FOCUS 15-4 Sodium Amobarbital Test
Synesthesia
15-6 Intelligence
Concept of General Intelligence
Divergent and Convergent Intelligence
Intelligence, Heredity, Epigenetics, and the Synapse
How Smart Brains Differ
15-7 Consciousness
Why Are We Conscious?
EXPERIMENT 15-4 Question: Can people alter their movements without conscious awareness?
What Is the Neural Basis of Consciousness?

Chapter 16
What Happens When the Brain Misbehaves?
16-1 Multidisciplinary Contributions to Brain and Behavior
RESEARCH FOCUS 16-1 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Clinical Neuroscience
Behavioral Disorders
16-2 Psychiatric Disorders
Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
Mood Disorders
RESEARCH FOCUS 16-2 Antidepressant Action and Brain Repair
16-3 Neurological Disorders
Traumatic Brain Injury
CLINICAL FOCUS 16-3 Concussion
Stroke
CLINICAL FOCUS 16-4 Cerebral Aneurysms
Epilepsy
Multiple Sclerosis
Neurocognitive Disorders
Treatments for Neurocognitive Disorders
RESEARCH FOCUS 16-5 Treating Behavioral Disorders with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
16-4 Research Challenges
Organizational Complexity
Systemic Complexity
Neuronal Plasticity
Compensatory Plasticity
Technological Resolution
Modeling Simplicity
Modeling Limitations
16-5 Posttraumatic Growth and Apathy

Ian Q. Whishaw received his Ph.D. from Western University and is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Texas, the University of Michigan, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Strasbourg. He is a fellow of Clair Hall, Cambridge, the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of the Canadian Humane Society Bronze Medal for bravery, the Ingrid Speaker Gold Medal for research, the dis-tinguished teaching medal from the University of Lethbridge, and the Donald O. Hebb Prize. He has received the Key to the City of Lethbridge and has honorary doctorates from the University of British Columbia, Thompson Rivers University, and the University of Lethbridge. His research addresses the evolution and neural basis of skilled movement and the neural basis of brain disease. The Institute for Sci-entific Information includes him in its list of most-cited neuroscientists. His hobby is training and showing horses for Western performance events.

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