Guide to Research Techniques in Neuroscience – September 21, 2005

Guide to Research Techniques in Neuroscience Paperback – September 21, 2005

Author: Visit Amazon's Matt Carter Page | Language: English | ISBN: 0123748496 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Matt Carter is currently Assistant Professor of Biology at Williams College. His previous position was as a post-doctoral fellow in Richard Palmiter's lab at the University of Washington using optogenetic techniques to study neural circuitry. He has authored the first edition of this book (Elsevier, 2009) as well as Designing Science Presentations: A Visual Guide to Figures, Papers, Slides, Posters, and More (Elsevier, 2012). He was the awardee of Stanford University's Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, and two-time recipient of the Stanford School of Medicine's Excellence in Teaching Award. He currently teaches courses at Williams in both Topics in Neuroscience as well as Neural Systems and Circuits.

Former: carterme@u.washington.edu

Jennifer Shieh is currently a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the NIH working with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Development Center. She co-authored the first edition of this book (Elsevier, 2009), and was awarded the Hans-Lukas Teuber Award for Outstanding Research and Academics in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Award for Outstanding Scholarship and BCS Contributions.

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Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (September 21, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0123748496
ISBN-13: 978-0123748492
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
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Modern neuroscience employs a horde of techniques. A non exhaustive list includes electrophisiology, microscopy, animal models, brain imaging, tissue cultures, genetic knockouts, protein purification, and many more. An aspiring neuroscientist needs to have at least an awareness of the techniques in order to: (1) understand and appreciate the experimental results in neuroscience publications and (2) opt for the right technique to answer the questions he/she is after. This book was written to provide just that.

The book is organized into 14 chapters each discussing a specific technique or family of techniques. On average 30 pages are dedicated to each technique. This is brief enough not to bore readers yet detailed enough to provide a sufficiently deep understanding. The chapters are rather brief and hence sections on techniques that the reader is familiar with won't offer much but it is those sections on unfamiliar techniques that are worth the read! Another consequence of the chapters' brevity is that readers interested in the details of a specific technique will have to look elsewhere. The book helps in this regard though: At the end of each chapter, there are two valuable reference lists: The first is a list of core texts specialized on the research technique discussed in the chapter. The second is a list of selected studies where the technique was put to good use. I found the lists very valuable.

The book is written in a clear, casual and friendly style. I believe that it is well in the reach of most readers regardless of the background.

Finally, a particularly nice thing about the book is that it puts the reader in the mentality of an experimenter which is a great things for those with little prior lab experience.