Description
There has been an explosion of knowledge in developmental neuroscience over the last two decades. This volume contains the editor’s selection of chapters from the new Encyclopedia of Neuroscience that address key features of the development of nervous systems. They are organized into three sections – Neural Induction, Pattern Formation, and Cell Specification; Axon Guidance and Synaptogenesis; and Neurogenesis, Neurotrophism and Regeneration. Topics covered include events in neural development that occur from early to late – from the first induction and segregation of neural cells and tissues from non-neural epithelia, through the axial patterning of neural anlagen and the specification of neural cell types, to axon guidance and the organization of axonal connections, adult versus embryonic neurogenesis, and nervous system degeneration and repair. 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 Bhr James Fawcett and Peter Richardson
