Neuroscience Methods : A Guide for Advanced Students

Neuroscience Methods: A Guide for Advanced Students provides easy to understand descriptions of the many different techniques that are currently being used to study the brain at the molecular, cellular and whole organ levels. Providing a large breadth of ideas and information, the book is designed to rescue undergraduate and postgraduate students from continuing bewilderment at the 'methods' sections of current neuroscience publications.Techniques covered include sharp and whole-cell recording, extracellular recording, ion-selective microelectrodes, stereotaxy, production of polyclonal antibodies, immunoblotting, chromatographic techniques for separation of proteins, membrane fractionation, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, tract tracing, immunohistochemistry and autoradiography.