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Edited by C. A. G. Wiersma. Price, $10. Pp 370. Chicago, Chicago University Press, 1967.

Harry Grundfest, PhD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1968;18(2):222.

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This is the product of a symposium held in January 1966 and organized by Prof C. A. G. Wiersman, one of the leaders in the study of invertebrate nervous systems. The material is organized into five sections: "Specificity of the Nerve Cell"; "Central Control of Development and Neurosecretion (it also includes two papers on muscle)"; "Neurons and Programming"; "Visual Networks and Integration"; and "The Organization of Patterned Behavior." The 27 papers are of varying lengths and some are on rather esoteric subjects (eg, Unidentified Bodies in Certain Nerve Cells of Aplysia). All contain bibliographies which will help the reader to delve deeper.

The subtitle emphasizes the significance of the subject matter for mammalian neurophysiology. It is, indeed, useful to make mammalian physiologists aware of the extent to which our basic knowledge of electrophysiology gains from comparative studies. However, the usefulness would have been enhanced if the book had included a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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