We recommended the following book:
  • Kandel ER, Schwartz JH, Jessell TM, Siegelbaum SA, Hudspeth AJ. 2012. Principles of Neural Science, 5th ed. McGraw-Hill, New York.
Other books of interest:
  • Irwin B. Levitan, Leonard K . Kaczmarek.The Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology, 3rd ed (ISBN: 9780195145236).
  • Squire LR, Berg D, Bloom FE, Lac S, Ghosh A & Spitzer NC, Fundamental Neuroscience, 4th ed. Academic Press, London.
  • Siegel GJ, Agranoff BW, Albers RW, Fisher SK & Uhler MD 2008. Basic Neurochemistry, 6th ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (2nd edition is freely available here).
  • Carpenter MB, Core text of neuroanatomy,, 4th ed. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore.
  • Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, Morgan D & Raff M 2008 The Molecular Biology of the Cell, 6th ed. Garland Publishing, London (4th edition is freely available here).
  • Boron WF, Boulpaep EL Medical 2012. Physiology. Second edition. Elsevier.
  • Schoenwolf, Bleyl, Brauer and Francis-West 2009 Larsen’s Human Embryology. 4th ed. Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier.
  • Young, Lowe, Stevens and Heath. 2006. Wheater’s Functional Histology - A Text and a Colour Atlas. 5th ed. Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier.
For each theme session, additional bibliography (one review article) will be supplied one week prior to the beginning of the course.