The Rat Nervous System, Fifth Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and students in neuroscience who are working on the rat and mouse as experimental models. The new edition provides thorough updates throughout, including the latest information in an active field of research on the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system and their unique functions. Readers will learn how to formulate sound hypotheses as well as carry out accurate research models.
I: Development
1. Gene Maps and Related Histogenetic Domains in the Forebrain and Midbrain
2. Neuromeric Landmarks in the Rat Midbrain, Diencephalon, and Hypothalamus, Compared with Acetylcholinesterase Histochemistry
3. Tangential Migration in the Telencephalon
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II: Peripheral Nervous System
4. Peripheral Autonomic Nervous System
5. Primary afferent projections to the spinal cord
6. Spinal Cord Cyto- and Chemoarchitecture
7. Substantia Gelatinosa of the Spinal Cord
8. Ascending and Descending Pathways in the Spinal Cord
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III: Brainstem and Cerebellum
9. Cerebellum and Cerebellar Connections
10. Periaqueductal Gray
11. Oromotor Nuclei
12. The Lower Urinary Tract
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IV: Diencephalon, Basal Ganglia, Amygdala, and Septum
13. Organization of the Hypothalamus
14. Hypothalamic Supraoptic and Paraventricular Nuclei
15. Circumventricular Organs
16. Thalamus
17. Basal Ganglia
18. Amygdala and Extension of the Amygdala
19. Dendritic Organization of the Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Projection System: Specific or Diffuse?
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V: Cortex
20. Hippocampal Formation
21. Cingulate Cortex and Pain Architecture
22. Isocortex
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VI: Systems
23. Central Autonomic System
24. Somatosensory System
25. Pain System
26. Gustatory System
27. Olfactory System
28. Vestibular System
29. Auditory System
30. Visual System
31. Cerebral Vascular System
George Paxinos has written 62 books on the brain of humans, monkeys, rodents and birds. His first atlas, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, is the most cited neuroscience publication. His Atlas of the Human Brain received The Award for Excellence in Publishing in Medical Science (Assoc American Publishers, 1997) and The British Medical Association Illustrated Book Award (2016). His eco-fiction book A River Divided (georgepaxinos.com.au) considers the question of whether the brain in the Goldilocks Zone - the right size” for survival.
Steve Kassem is a Senior Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and The University of New South Wales. He has authored two brain atlases, Atlas of the Developing Mouse Brain and Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Rat Brain. He developed a modification of the Golgi Stain, the Ultra-Rapid-Golgi stain, permitting use on cleared and fixed tissue and has assembled one of the largest online collections of histological material, brainreservoir.neura.edu.au. With Paxinos, Dalton and Smith, he constructed a unified list of CNS terms for humans, monkeys, rodents and birds, cnsterms.neura.edu.au.
