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Price: $153.95

Format:
Hardback 560 pp.
298 illustrations, 7" x 10"

ISBN-10:
0195167082

ISBN-13:
9780195167085

Publication date:
February 2012

Imprint: OUP US

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The Vestibular System

A Sixth Sense

Jay M. Goldberg, Victor J. Wilson, Kathleen E. Cullen, Dora E. Angelaki, Dianne M. Broussard, Jean Buttner-Ennever, and others

In The Vestibular System: A Sixth Sense, leading experts present an integrative, comprehensive and innovative look at the sense that Aristotle missed. The vestibular system plays a vital role in everyday life, contributing to a surprising range of functions from reflexes to the highest levels of perception and consciousness.

This text not only offers a thorough and fresh review of the basicssensory transduction, the neurophysiology of peripheral and central pathwaysand how vestibular signals are processed in the control of gaze and posture; it significantly moves the discussion forward with its attention to the current research and the field's revolutionary advances, such as the understanding of neural correlates of self-motion and the basis of clinical disorders. In addition, the objective presentation of existing controversies is exciting reading and an extremely important contribution to the text's completeness.

Dynamic, intellectually challenging, and unique in its level of integration of the material, this book is essential for anyone interested in understanding the vestibular system.

Readership : Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in studying vestibular function. Vestibular scientists interested in reviewing aspects of the field outside of the immediate focus of their research. Neuroscientists, sensory neurobiologists, neurologists, and other clinicians interested in postural control, motion sickness and nausea, and eye movements.

Part I: Introduction
1. The Vestibular System in Everyday Life
Part II: Peripheral Vestibular System
2. Structure of the Vestibular Labyrinth
3. Hair Cell Transduction
4. Physiology of the Vestibular Organs
5. The Efferent Vestibular System
Part III: Central Vestibular System
6. Neuroanatomy of Central Vestibular Pathways
7. Synaptic Mechanisms in the Vestibular Nuclei
Part IV: Vestibulo-ocular and Vestibulopinal Mechanisms
8. An Oculomotor Tutorial
9. Vestibulo-ocular Reflexes
10. The Vestibulospinal System and Postural Control
Part V: Signal Processing in Alert Animals
11. Signal Processing in Vestibular Nuclei of Alert Animals During Natural Behaviors
12. The Cerebellum and the Vestibular System
Part VI: Functional Considerations
13. Learning and Compensation in the Vestibular System
14. Cortical Representations of Vestibular Information
15. Reference Frames Used in the Coding Vestibular Information
Part VII: Clinical Disorders
16. Clinical Manifestations of Vestibular Dysfunction

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Jay M. Goldberg works in the Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Victor J. Wilson works at Laboratory of Neurophysiology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY. Kathleen E. Cullen works at Laboratory of Neurophysiology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dora E. Angelaki works in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. Dianne M. Broussard, Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jean A. Büttner-Ennever, Institute of Anatomy III, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
Kikuro Fukushima, Department of Physiology, Hokkaido University School of Medicine, Kitaku, Sapporo, Japan.
Lloyd B. Minor, Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.

Vestibular Disorders - Dr. Joseph M. Furman, Dr. Stephen P. Cass and Dr. Susan L. Whitney
Clinical Neurophysiology of the Vestibular System - Robert W. Baloh, M.D. and Kevin A. Kerber, M.D.
The Central Nervous System - Per Brodal, M.D.
Medical Neurobiology - Peggy Mason
Clinical Disorders of Balance, Posture and Gait - Edited by Adolfo M. Bronstein, Thomas Brandt, Marjorie H. Woollacott and John G. Nutt

Special Features

  • Discusses the revolutionary advances that have occurred in the field in the past 10 years.
  • Extensively and beautifully illustrated with over 200 color figures.
  • Provides an integrative look at the vestibular system.