From Molecules to Networks: An Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience

Overall, I was really pleased with this textbook. I originally ordered it as reference material for a computational neuroscience project, and it didn't disappoint. It covers pretty much all the relevant areas of molecular neuroscience, including ion channels and gates, properties of membranes, neurotransmission/modulation, receptors and protein configurations, genetic processes, neural circuits - even pathological information related to neurodegenerative diseases as an added bonus. It has a number of sections and a chapter dedicated to quantitative analysis, as well as touching on the use of NEURON or other software packages, which made it a great resource for my project.I think one of the reasons the text really does well is each section is written by leading experts in the field. The chapter dealing with LTP and NMDA dependent Hebbian plasticity is written (amongst others) by Kevin LeBar and Joseph LeDoux, ion channels by David Young, Yuh Nung Jan, and Lily Yeh Jan, and is edited by John H Byrne and James L Roberts with lots of material in each chapter by them as well.The second edition is very current, and contains a lot of information that generally isn't available on the web, with specifics from medical and science journals. Great stuff.

Great reference when I was working on a paper for my neuroscience class.

Great book for an advanced undergraduate or graduate srudent.