Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Birkhäuser
Book cover

Cortical Circuits

Synaptic Organization of the Cerebral Cortex Structure, Function, and Theory

  • Book
  • © 1989

Overview

Authors:
  1. Edward L. White

    1. Department of Morphology, Corob Center for Medical Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Anatomy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
      Download chapter PDF

    2. General Organization of the Cerebral Cortex

      • Edward L. White
      Pages 5-18

    3. Cell Types

      • Edward L. White
      Pages 19-45

    4. Synaptic Connections Between Identified Elements

      • Edward L. White
      Pages 46-82

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 83-105
    Download chapter PDF

  4. Functional Aspects of Cortical Circuitry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
      Download chapter PDF

    2. Functional Properties of Cortical Neurons

      • Edward L. White
      Pages 109-131

    3. Synaptic Circuitry Revealed by Electrophysiology

      • Edward L. White
      Pages 132-149

    4. GABAergic Inhibition in the Cerebral Cortex

      • Edward L. White
      Pages 150-158

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 159-176
    Download chapter PDF

  6. Facts, Theories, and Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
      Download chapter PDF

    2. An Integrative View of Cortical Circuitry

      • Edward L. White
      Pages 179-206

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 207-215
    Download chapter PDF

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 217-223
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This elegant book presents current evidence on the organization of the mammalian cerebral cortex. The focus on synapses and their function provides the basis for understanding how this critical part of the brain could work. Dr. White and his colleague Dr. Keller have collated an impressive mass of material. This makes the crucial information accessible and coherent. Dr. White pioneered an area of investigation that to most others, and occasionally to himself, seemed a bottomless pit of painstaking at­ tention to detail for the identification and enumeration of cortical syn­ apses. I do not recall that he or anyone else suspected, when he began to publish his now classic papers, that the work would be central to an accelerating convergence of information and ideas from neurobiology and computer science, especially artificial intelligence (AI) (Rumelhart and McClelland, 1986). The brain is the principal organ responsible for the adaptive capacities of animals. What has impressed students of biology, of medicine, and, to an extent, of philosophy is the correlation between the prominence of the cerebral cortex and the adaptive "complexity" of a particular spe­ cies. Most agree that the cortex is what sets Homo sapiens apart from other species quantitatively and qualitatively (Rakic, 1988). This is summarized in the first chapter.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Morphology, Corob Center for Medical Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

    Edward L. White

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation