Developmental Neurobiology

Developmental Neuroscience is one of the six core disciplines in Neuroscience, and yet no single volume, non-textbook reference exists on the market that provides researchers with more in-depth, high-level information on developmental neurobiology.  Currently, anyone interested in the field at a higher level must sift through review articles published frequently and the more specific handbooks that focus on aspects of development rather than the field as a whole.

This reference is the first of its kind to fill this need. It pulls together the relevant articles on the topic from the 10-volume Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Academic Press, 2008) and serves as an affordable and immediate resource for scientists, postdocs, graduate students with an interest beyond the basic textbook materials on the subject.

The first and only comprehensive, single-volume reference for developmental neuroscience that goes beyond the basic textbook informationThe 93 chapters cover topics ranging from cell fate determination, path finding, synapse generation, neural stem cells, to neurodegeneration and regeneration, carefully selected from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience by one of the great developmental neuroscientists, Greg LemkeThe best researchers in the field provide their conclusions in the context of the latest experimental results

Section 1: Neural Induction, Pattern Formation, and Cell Specification

Including chapters by Gary Schoenwolf, Claudio Stern, Lewis Wolpert, Henk Roelink, James Brisco, Richard Twyman, Ethan Bier, Gregg Duester, Robb Krumlauf, Jeremy Dasen, Michael Brand, Cliff Ragsdale, Luis Puelles, Steve Wilson, Edwin Monuki, Dennis O'Leary, Masarharu Noda, Ajay Chitnis, Gerry Weinmaster, Jane Johnson, Ryoichiro Kageyama, Larysa H. Pevny, Sam Pfaff, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, Carrolee Barlow, Gene Yeo, Stefan Thor, Arthur Butt, Arnon Rosenthal, Anne Calof, Bill Richardson, Matthew W Kelley, Brian A. Link, Michel Cayouette, Tom Reh, H. M. Young, Rhona Mirsky, R. Doug Fields, Klaus-Armin Nave, Michael Wegner, Heinz Arnheiter, Donald Newgreen, Peter G Smith, Michael Gershon, Stephan Marc Breedlove and Richard B Simerly

Section 2: Axon Guidance and Synaptogenesis

Including chapters by Christine Holt, Geoffrey J Goodhill, Kang Shen, Andreas Faissner, John (Jack) H Martin, Fan Wang, Jonathan Raper, R.A. Rachel, Marla B Feller, Martha Constantine-Paton, Sansar Sharma, Holly Cline, John B Thomas, Frederic Charron, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Paul C Letourneau, Eunjoon Kim, Carlo Sala, Noam Ziv, Ege T. Kavalali, Haig S Keshishian, Clarke R. Slater, Michael J Werle, Hans R Brenner, Richard R. Ribchester, Chien-Ping Ko, Nicola Allen and Yesekiel Ben-Ari

Section 3: Neurogenesis, Neurotrophism, and Regeneration

Including chapters by Gordon Fishell, Anna Philpott, Ronald W Oppenheim, Robert O Heuckeroth, Peter G.H. Clarke, Mark H Tuszynski, M. Jill Saffrey, Bernhard Reuss, Fred H Gage, Gerd Kempermann, Rahul Jandial, Daniel A Peterson, Jon Nilsen, Matthias Bähr James Fawcett and Peter Richardson