Neuroscience Book, I have no idea

[Orestis]

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Hello,

I am a third year medical student and I want to do research in neuroscience. For now I would like a neuroscience book that uses the same logic of physiology books(e.g. Berne-Levy, Costanzo, Gyuton etc.) but only for the brain so I start to get into the subject. What I mean is that I want to learn the basics(e.g. what kind of receptor, what channels, what intracellular pathways). The last days I tried to check some articles in PubMed but most of the articles just talk about their experiment without explaining the basics which I don't know so I end up wasting my time.

Thank you

 

[bashwell]

Hello,

I am a third year medical student and I want to do research in neuroscience. For now I would like a neuroscience book that uses the same logic of physiology books(e.g. Berne-Levy, Costanzo, Gyuton etc.) but only for the brain so I start to get into the subject. What I mean is that I want to learn the basics(e.g. what kind of receptor, what channels, what intracellular pathways). The last days I tried to check some articles in PubMed but most of the articles just talk about their experiment without explaining the basics which I don't know so I end up wasting my time.

Thank you

It's British, but maybe Neurophysiology: A Conceptual Approach?

 

[Amygdarya]

Kandel's "Principles of neural science" is a classic... if you have time to read it.

 

[differentiating]

In undergrad, the most useful neuro book I had was Neuroscience by Dale Purves. I don't know anything about the books you listed, so it might not fit your request very well, but this goes through a handful of different topics in neuroscience, from neuronal signaling to sensory/motor pathways.

 

[dxcrunner]

Pures neuroscience is great for explaining receptors and all of that good stuff. There is plenty of detail to get you but and they assume no prior neuro knowledge which is great. If you want more clinical basis and little basic science, Blumenfeld is great. A book like Kandel is not really practical as it is huge and most students don't have the time to flip through + it's not really clinically focused per se.

 

[FindMeOnTheLinks]

Purves Neuroscience is good at explaining stuff but it takes a lot of time to read. I guess if you're using it for basic science research background it should be good.

 

[Vain Brother]

seconding Purves. Blumenfield is good too, but it probably assumes a little more prior knowledge on the part of the reader

 

[WedgeDawg]

Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain by Bear, Connors, and Paradiso is extremely accessible for people without a neuroscience background and is very basic. My only concern is that it might be too basic, but it might be worth taking a look into if you don't have any real experience with neuroscience. You'll definitely be able to become fluent in the "language" with it and you can definitely make the jump to reading papers/articles from Cerebral Cortex/Neuron/JNeurosci after you're done with it.