The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates: Spinal Cord and Deuterencephalon

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Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, 1975 M01 1 - 1006 pages
In 1927, Hartwig Kuhlenbeck published a series of lectures on the central nervous system of vertebrates and gave neurobiology its standard reference for decades. The present work, now complete in 5 volumes, represents a monumental expansion of the early lectures.
 

Contents

The Spinal Cord
1
Problems of Taxonomy
2
Significance of Species and Related Concepts
3
Historical Remarks
4
Some Remarks Concerning Their Contempo rary Status
5
Geologic and Palaeontologic Aspects
6
The Genetic Aspects
7
Ecology and Geographic Distribution
8
Ganoids and Teleosts Latimeria
406
Dipnoans
436
Amphibians
444
Reptiles
467
Birds
482
Mammals Including Man
507
Structural Elements Biology of Nervous Tissue
546
References to Chapter IX
610

Physiologic Aspects
9
Taxonomic Aspects
10
Anatomical Aspects
11
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Mechanisms L Edingers Eigenapparat and Verbindungsapparat Some Comments on the Reflex Con cept and on Myelogeny
15
The Vertebrate Peripheral Nervous System and its Morpho
30
Amphioxus
58
Cyclostomes
76
Selachians
95
Latimeria
108
Dipnoans
130
Amphibians
132
Reptiles
150
Amphibians 7 Reptiles
158
Birds
161
Mammals Including Man
177
Birds
199
References to Chapter VIII
270
Medulla Oblongata and Pons
288
The Mesencephalon 1 General Pattern and Basic Mechanisms The Meaning of Tegmentum and Tectum
293
The Telencephalon
332
Some Remarks on the socalled Formatio Reticularis Tegmenti
335
Cyclostomes
336
Cyclostomes
348
Selachians
383
Selachians
390
The Cerebellum
624
Cyclostomes
666
Selachians
671
Ganoids and Teleosts Latimeria
681
Dipnoans
706
Amphibians
713
Amphibians
724
Reptiles
725
Birds
732
Mammals Including Man
744
Birds
745
Mammals
759
References to Chapter X
768
The Mesencephalon
777
Cyclostomes
810
Selachians
824
Ganoids and Teleosts Latimeria
841
Dipnoans
867
Amphibians
875
Reptiles
894
Birds
915
Mammals Including Man
934
References to Chapter XI
996
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