Neurociencia. La exploración del cerebro

Dr. Mark Bear is Picower Professor of Neuroscience in the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to moving to MIT in 2003, Dr. Bear was on the faculty of Brown University School of Medicine for 17 years where he held the Sidney and Dorothy Doctors Fox Chair in Visual Neuroscience. He was an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for 22 years from 1994 to 2015, and served as Director of the Picower Institute from 2007 to 2009. After receiving his B.S. degree from Duke University, Dr. Bear earned his Ph.D. degree in neurobiology at Brown. He took postdoctoral training from Wolf Singer at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany, and from Leon Cooper at Brown. Bear’s laboratory has substantially advanced knowledge of how cerebral cortex is modified by experience. He made fundamental discoveries on bidirectional synaptic plasticity, metaplasticity, the molecular basis of amblyopia (a cause of visual disability in children), and the pathophysiology of fragile X syndrome (the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and autism). He has been at the forefront of the efforts to translate knowledge of autism pathophysiology into new treatments. He has been recognized with a number of honors including the Brown University Class of 2000 Barrett Hazeltine Citation for Teaching Excellence, the Society for Neuroscience Young Investigator Award, the National Fragile X Foundation William & Enid Rosen Research Award, the Fragile X Research Foundation (FRAXA) Pioneer Award, the Ipsen Foundation Neural Plasticity Prize, the Beckman-Argyros Award in Vision Research, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

PARTE I Fundamentos
CAPÍTULO 1 Neurociencia: pasado, presente y futuro
CAPÍTULO 2 Neuronas y glia
CAPÍTULO 3 La membrana neuronal en reposo
CAPÍTULO 4 El potencial de acción
CAPÍTULO 5 Transmisión sináptica
CAPÍTULO 6 Sistemas de neurotransmisores
CAPÍTULO 7 Estructura del sistema nervioso
Apéndice: Guía ilustrada de neuroanatomía humana

PARTE II Sistemas sensoriales y motor
CAPÍTULO 8 Los sentidos químicos
CAPÍTULO 9 El ojo
CAPÍTULO 10 El sistema visual central
CAPÍTULO 11 Sistemas auditivo y vestibular
CAPÍTULO 12 El sistema sensorial somático
CAPÍTULO 13 Control medular del movimiento
CAPÍTULO 14 Control cerebral del movimiento

PARTE III El cerebro y la conducta
CAPÍTULO 15 Control químico del encéfalo y la conducta
CAPÍTULO 16 Motivación
CAPÍTULO 17 Sexo y cerebro
CAPÍTULO 18 Mecanismos cerebrales de la emoción
CAPÍTULO 19 Los ritmos cerebrales y el sueño
CAPÍTULO 20 Lenguaje
CAPÍTULO 21 Cerebro en reposo, atención y consciencia
CAPÍTULO 22 Enfermedad mental

PARTE IV El cerebro cambiante
CAPÍTULO 23 El cableado del cerebro
CAPÍTULO 24 Sistemas de memoria
CAPÍTULO 25 Mecanismos moleculares del aprendizaje y la memoria