For over 25 years, Neuroscience has been the most comprehensive and clearly written neuroscience textbook on the market. This level of excellence continues in the Seventh Edition, with a balance of animal, human, and clinical studies that discuss the dynamic field of neuroscience from cellular signaling to cognitive function. New learning objectives, and more concise sections make the content even more accessible than before.

Neuroscience provides a bridge between the undergraduate and medical school worlds. It brings the relevance of neuroscience to both those exploring careers in the field as undergraduates and those developing core neuroscience understanding for medical school. It accomplishes this by presenting a balance of animal, human, and clinical studies that discuss the dynamic field of neuroscience from cellular signaling to cognitive function.

Neuroscience, Seventh Edition, is available with Oxford Insight. Oxford Insight pairs best-in-class OUP content with curated media resources, activities, and gradable assessment, in a guided learning environment that delivers performance analytics, drives student engagement, and improves student outcomes.

Figures illustrate complex biological processes
Boxes discuss other pertinent and relevant topics and put content into historical, methodological, or general interest context
Targets undergraduates through the provision of clear learning objectives, and more concise sections
Illustrations that help students to visualize the brain
Maintains its appeal to medical schools with thorough coverage of the field, and presentation of new and cutting-edge research
Edited by George J. Augustine, Jennifer M. Groh, Scott A. Huettel, Anthony-Samuel LaMantia, Leonard E. White, and Editor Emeritus Dale Purves


Chapter 1: Studying the Nervous System
Unit 1: Neural Signaling
Chapter 2: Electrical Signals of Nerve Cells
Chapter 3: Voltage-Dependent Membrane Permeability
Chapter 4: Ion Channels and Transporters
Chapter 5: Synaptic Transmission
Chapter 6: Neurotransmitters and Their Receptors
Chapter 7: Molecular Signaling within Neurons
Chapter 8: Synaptic Plasticity
Unit 2: Sensation and Sensory Processing
Chaper 9: Vision
Chapter 10: Hearing
Chapter 11: The Vestibular System
Chapter 12: Touch and Proprioception
Chapter 13: Pain and Temperature
Chapter 14: Olfaction
Chapter 15: Taste
Unit 3: Movement and Its Central Control
Chapter 16: Lower Motor Neuron Circuits and Motor Control
Chapter 17: Upper Motor Neuron Control of the Brainstem and Spinal Cord
Chapter 18: Modulation of Movement by the Basal Ganglia
Chapter 19: Modulation of Movememnt by the Cerebellum
Chapter 20: Eye Movements and Sensorimotor Integration
Chapter 21: The Visceral Motor System
Unit 4: The Changing Brain
Chapter 22: Early Brain Development
Chapter 23: Construction of Neural Circuits
Chapter 24: Experience-Dependent Plasticity in the Developing Brain
Chapter 25: Sex Differences and Neural Circuit Development
Chapter 26: Repair and Regeneration in the Nervous System
Unit 5: Complex Brain Functions and Cognitive Neuroscience
Chapter 27: Cognitive Functions and the Organization of the Cerebral Cortex
Chapter 28: Corticol States
Chapter 29: Attention
Chapter 20: Memory
Chapter 31: Speech and Language
Chapter 32: Emotion
Chapter 33: Thinking, Planning, and Deciding