Dendrites

Second Edition

Edited by Greg Stuart, Nelson Spruston, and Michael Häusser

576 pages | 53 line illustrations, 26 black & white photographs and 25 colour illustrations | 246x171mm

978-0-19-856656-4 | Hardback | 27 September 2007

Price: £60.00

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A long-awaited new edition of a successful and influential volume
The only book dedicated to this topic, with chapters from leading experts and laboratories
Chapters progress from the morphology, evolution, and development of dendrites, to their unique properties and function, as well as their role in plasticity and disease, thus providing a logical and comprehensive flow of information on the topic

New to this edition

Includes 5 completely new chapters
Now with full colour illustrations

Dendrites form the major receiving part of neurons. It is within these highly complex, branching structures that the real work of the nervous system takes place. The dendrites of neurons receive thousands of synaptic inputs from other neurons. However, dendrites do more than simply collect and funnel these signals to the soma and axon; they shape and integrate the inputs in complex ways. Despite being discovered over a century ago, dendrites received little research attention until the early 1950s. Over the past few years there has been a dramatic explosion of interest in the function of these beautiful structures. Recent new research has developed our understanding of the properties of dendrites, and their role in neuronal function.

The first edition of Dendrites was a landmark in the literature, stimulating and guiding further research. The new edition substantially updates the earlier volume, and includes 5 new chapters and colour illustrations. Its gathers new information on dendrites into a single volume, with contributions written by leading researchers in the field. It presents a survey of the current state of our knowledge of dendrites, from their morphology and development through to their electrical, chemical, and computational properties. As such it will not only be of interest to researchers and graduate-level students in neuroscience, but will also be useful to researchers in computer science and IT, psychology, physiology, and biophysics.

Readership: Neuroscientists, researchers in computer science and IT, psychology, physiology, and biophysics.

Edited by Greg Stuart, Associate Professor and Head, Division of Neuroscience, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Nelson Spruston, Professor, Department of Neurobiology & Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA, and Michael Häusser, Professor of Neuroscience, University College London, UK

Contributors:
Larry Abbott, Center for Neurobiology & Behavior, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, USA
Lindy Barrett, Depts of Neuroscience & Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, USA
Christophe Bernard, Inst de Neurobiologie de la Mediterranee, INSERM U29, Marseille, France
Jennifer Bestman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor NY, USA
Alexander Borst, Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Martinsried, Germany
Adam Carter, Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, USA
Dane Chetkovich, Davee Dept of Neurology & Clinical Neurosciences, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA
Hollis T Cline, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor NY, USA
Anna Dunaevsky, Dept of Neuroscience, Brown University, Providence RI, USA
James Eberwine, Dept of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, USA
Mark Farrant, Dept of Pharmacology, University College London, UK
John C Fiala, Dept of Biology, Boston University, Boston MA, USA
Anirvan Ghosh, Division of Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Kristen M Harris, Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Michael Hausser, Wolfson Inst for Biomedical Research, University College London, UK
Fritjof Helmchen, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Daniel Johnston, Center for Learning and Memory, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Gilles Laurent, Biology Division, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Michael London, Wolfson Inst for Biomedical Research, University College London, UK
Jeffrey C Magee, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn VA, USA
Zachary F Mainen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor NY, USA
Troy Margrie, Dept of Physiology, University College London, UK
Bartlett W Mel, Dept of Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, UK
Roger Nicoll, Depts of Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Zoltan Nusser, Dept of Neurology, Inst of Experimental Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
Franck Polleux, Neuroscience Center, Dept of Pharmacology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NC, USA
Ithai Rabinowitch, Dept of Neurobiology, Inst of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Wilfrid Rall, Wheaton MD, USA
Bernardo Sabatini, Dept of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, USA
Jorge Santos da Silva, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor NY, USA
Idan Segev, Dept of Neurobiology, Inst of Life Sciences, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Mala Shah, Dept of Pharmacology, University College London, UK
R Angus Silver, Dept of Physiology, University College London, UK
Josef Spacek, Dept of Pathology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Nelson Spruston, Dept of Neurobiology & Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA
Greg Stuart, Division of Neuroscience, Australian National University, Acton ACT, Australia
Nathan Urban, Dept of Biological Sciences, Mellon Inst, Carnegi Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Samuel S-H Wang, Dept of Molecular Biology & Program in Neuroscience, Princeton University, Princeton., USA
Gayle M Wittenberg, Dept of Molecular Biology & Program in Neuroscience, Princeton University, Princeton., USA
Catherine S Woolley, Dept of Neurobiology & Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston IL, USA

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