Untitled Document. Synaptic Plasticity. Anatomy of a Neuron. Neuronal Synapses. M embrane Potential Tutorial. Neurons and Support Cells. Please note that this guide is intended to complement, NOT to replace, textbook readings (i.e., Kandel et al.). Histology textbooks are NOT recommended for the study of nervous tissue. Most histology textbooks begin with relatively insignificant, and often misleading, details rather than emphasizing features important for understanding nervous tissue function. Recommended are selected chapters in in Kandel, Schwartz and Jessell, Principles of Neural Science.
Kandel's classic text is remarkable. Senior author Eric Kandel received the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine for work on "signal transduction in the nervous system" (Kandel's Nobel Prize lecture). Choose: 5th edition, 2013, 4th edition, 2000, or 3rd. edition, 1991. 5th edition, TBA Historical overview. INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS Please note that this guide is intended to complement, NOT to replace, textbook readings (i.e., Kandel et al.). Nerve cell processes are quite thin, often less than a micron (1µm) in diameter.