Literature List

The educational content has been developed and finalized. It consists of a description of the various modules and contains the literature list concerning the textbooks. Review articles from Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Current Opinion Neurobiology, Trends in Neuroscience will be used.  

Papers from scientific journals, book chapters and relevant internet sites (especially for the anatomy part) will be presented at the electronic learning environment EleUM of Maastricht University. In addition students will be asked for their own initiative to find relevant publications. The use of the link to PubMed is recommended.

All modules will use the following text books as a basis of academic teaching:

  • Fundamental Neuroscience by Larry R. Squire, Darwin Berg, Floyd E. Bloom, Sascha du Lac, Anirvan Ghosh, Nicholas C. Spitzer; (2012). The 4th edition of "Fundamental Neuroscience" provides a comprehensive presentation of the discipline of neuroscience, from molecules to cognition.
  • Principles of Neural Science by Eric Kandel, James Schwartz and Thomas Jessel; 5th edition (2012).

 

Individual modules use additional textbooks, e.g:

Module 1: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

  • Molecular Cell Biology by Harvey Lodish et al; (2012) 7th edition. Key concepts in cell biology and their experimental underpinnings: the connections between cell biology and health and human disease.


Module 2: Neuroanatomy and Histology

  • Neuroanatomical atlases of rat, mouse, chick and human.
  • The Rat Nervous System by George Paxinos; 3rd edition (2004).
  • The Human Nervous system by George Paxinos and Juergen K. Mai; (2011).


Module 3: Electrophysiology and Imaging

  • An introduction to the Event-Related Potential Technique by Steven J. Luck; 1st edition(2005).

 

Module 4: Neurodevelopment

  • Developmental Neurobiology by Mahendra S. Rao and Marcus Jacobson; 4th edition (2005). A survey of cellular and molecular events contributing to the assembly of the vertebrate nervous system. Chapters include a mixture of historical content and descriptions from literature that best illustrate specific aspects of development.
  • Developmental Biology by Scott F. Gilbert; 9th edition (2012).

 

Module 5 and 9: Motor Systems, Epilepsy, Pain / Neurotrauma and Stroke

  • Wall and Melzack’s textbook of Pain by Stephen McMahon & Martin Koltzenburg; 5th edition (2005)

 

Module 6: Neurodegenerative Diseases and Aging

  • The Biology of Alzheimer Disease by Dennis J Selkoe et al; (2011)

 

Module 7: Neuroinflammation and Neuroimmunology

  • Clinical Neuroimmunology by Jack P. Antel; 2d edition (2005).
  • Molecular Cell Biology by Harvey Lodish et al; 7th edition (2012).
  • Immunology by David Male et al; 7th edition (2006).

 

Module 8: Neuroendocrinology

  • Stress, the Brain and Depression by Herman van Praag, Ron de Kloet and Jim van Os; 1st edition (2004).
  • Molecular Cell Biology by Harvey Lodish et al; 7th edition (2012).

 

Module 10: Neuropsychiatric Disorders

  • Oxford American Handbook of Psychiatry by David Kupfer, David Brent, David Lewis et al. ; (2010).
  • Stress, the Brain and Depression by Herman van Praag, Ron de Kloet and Jim van Os; 1st edition (2004).

 

Course: Neuropharmacology

  • A Primer of Drug Action by Robert M. Julien; 11th edition (2007).
  • Psychopharmacology: Drugs, the Brain & Behavior by Jerrold S. Meyer & Linda F. Quenzer; 1st edition (2004).