Building Brains provides a highly visual and readily accessible introduction to the main events that occur during neural development and the mechanisms by which they occur. Aimed at undergraduate students and postgraduates new to the field, who may not have a background in neuroscience and/or molecular genetics, it explains how cells in the early embryo first become neural, how their proliferation is controlled, what regulates the types of neural cells they become, how neurons connect to each other, how these connections are later refined under the influence of neural activity including that arising from experience, and why some neurons normally die.
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David Price is Professor of Developmental Neurobiology, University of Edinburgh.
Andrew Jarman is Professor of Developmental Biology, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh.
John Mason is Reader, Centre for Integrative Physiology, University of Edinburgh.
Peter Kind is Reader, University of Edinburgh.