Andreatta Richard D. (ed.) Neuroscience Fundamentals for Communication Sciences and Disorders

Plural Publishing, 2019. — 2922 p. — ISBN: 9781635502701Neuroscience Fundamentals for Communication Sciences and Disorders is a comprehensive textbook designed for undergraduate neural bases or graduate neuroscience courses in communication sciences and disorders programs (CSD). Written with a fresh user-friendly conversational style and complemented by more than 350 visually rich and beautifully drawn full-color illustrations, this book emphasizes brain and behavior relationships while also ensuring coverage of essential neuroanatomy in an integrative fashion. With a comprehensive background in neuroscience fundamentals, students will be able to better understand and apply brain-behavior relationships to make appropriate clinical assessments and treatment decisions.Neuroscience Fundamentals for Communication Sciences and Disorders is designed to provide CSD students with a broad overview of the principles, processes, and structures underlying the workings of the human nervous system.Neuroanatomical and Neurophysiological Foundations
Introduction and Organization of Neuroscience Fundamentals in Communication Sciences and Disorders
The Basic Structure and Function of Neurons
Basics of Neural Signaling and Synaptic Function
Neuroanatomy of the Human Nervous System: Anatomical Nomenclature, Embryology, the Spinal Cord, and the Brainstem
Neuroanatomy of the Human Nervous System: The Diencephalon, Cerebrum, Cerebral Cortex, and the Infrastructure of the CNS
Sensory Systems
Basics of Sensation and Perception, and the Somatosensory System
Auditory-Vestibular System: Inner Ear Transduction Mechanisms for Sound and Balance
The Visual System
The Chemical Senses: Olfactory and Gustatory Systems
Motor Systems
Muscle Tissue: Structure, Mechanisms of Contraction, and the Motor Unit
Motor Control Systems of the CNS
Introduction to Motor Learning and Control Principles of Behavior
Neural Substrates of Human Communication
Neural Substrate of Speech and Voice
Neural Substrate of Language
Neural Substrate of Hearing: Central Auditory Pathway and the Auditory Cortices