This text studies the brain and nervous system at a molecular level. The text is designed to bridge the gap between the established cores of molecular biology and neuroscience knowledge through concise descriptions of key research questions, the genetic technologies which are available to approach those questions, and the current interpretation of research findings. Access to "up-to-date" information is available through extensive reference to the websites of leading research laboratories, biotechnology companies and other electronic resources.
Molecular Neuroscience has been developed from final year undergraduate and postgraduate courses, which the authors have devised and taught. It will be of value to advanced university students and to research workers; both to neuroscientists who are adopting molecular approaches for the first time and to those already in the field.
