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Altman, Joseph was born on October 7, 1925 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1955, naturalized, 1979. Son of Samuel and Honor (Teitelbaum) Altman.
(This first volume in the Atlas of Human Central Nervous S...)
This first volume in the Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development series sets the stage with complete coverage of the spinal cord from gestational week 4 to the 4th postnatal month. 3D color images provide a holistic view of the structural changes during spinal cord morphogenesis. This landmark first volume: • Provides quantitative summaries of several ontogenetic trends • Features all the stages of spinal cord development • Offers fresh insights into the steps involved in the morphogenesis of the mature spinal cord • Shows the human spinal cord at its most primitive stage, when consisting mainly of neuroepithelial stem cells This atlas is also available as part of the complete five volume series.
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(The cerebellum plays a vital role in the control of postu...)
The cerebellum plays a vital role in the control of posture, locomotion, eye movement, and a variety of motor functions. Currently, many scientists are involved in trying to unravel the molecular biology, physiology, and genetics of cerebellar development. This book provides an outstanding explanation of what happens during normal cerebellar development and following experimental interference with the normal course of development. Altman and Bayer, two of the world's leading authorities on developmental neurobiology, have studied cerebellar development using light microscopic, electron microscopic, and autoradiographic techniques. Here they share their findings with you. Their latest discoveries are presented, along with the wealth of data discovered by others. The result is an excellent new reference offering a novel interpretation of how the cerebellum develops as well as a model for studying the development of other brain systems.
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(This is the Second Volume of a five-volume set of atlases...)
This is the Second Volume of a five-volume set of atlases on the developing human central nervous system. With no other atlases available on the development of the human spinal cord and the brain during the third trimester, the first two volumes in the series fill a large void in current knowledge. Easy to use, the second volume contains high and low magnification photographs of brain sections arranged in two parts: a high resolution black and white image on the left and a ...ghost... image on the right page with unabbreviated labels. This volume provides a user-friendly survey of the complex structural changes that occur during late prenatal human brain development.
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(There exists a wealth of information about the developmen...)
There exists a wealth of information about the development of the spinal cord in journal articles and monographs, yet this beautifully illustrated work is the first book devoted to this important topic. Because the developing human spinal cord cannot be subjected to experimental manipulations, the knowledge gained from experimental work in animals is applied here to an interpretation of the time course and mechanisms of spinal cord development in man. The book begins with a review of our current understanding of the structure and functions of the spinal cord. Special reference is made to the phylogeny of the vertebrate spinal cord because the authors' interpretation of the development and organization of the human spinal cord is specifically an evolutionary one. Following a detailed experiment-based account of spinal cord development in the rat, the development of the human spinal cord is described, illustrated and interpreted in separate chapters during three epochs: the first trimester (the embryonic period), the second and third trimesters (the fetal period), and the first year of postnatal life. Special attention is paid to such topics as neurons, and the growth and myelination of the ascending and descending fiber tracts of the spinal cord. The book ends with a correlation of the development of motor behavior with different stages in the morphological development of the human spinal cord during the embryonic, fetal, and postnatal periods. The successive acquisition of voluntary control over different parts of the body during infancy is correlated with the progressive myelination of the corticospinal tract. * The book contains an extensive review of work on spinal cord organization and development throughout the 20th century. * The interpretations are based on experimental studies of spinal cord development in the rat carried out by the authors and their associates. * The histological material on human spinal cord development is the largest ever assembled and reproduced (combining the Carnegie, Minot, and Yakovlev Collections). * The collected material (which varies in quality and some of it has begun to fade) has been digitized and electronically reprocessed for improved reproduction. * Discrete components of the spinal cord and new developments are highlighted by color coding; typically on one side only, leaving the contralateral side untouched to allow the reader to use his own interpretation. * Summary graphs are presented, many in color, to convey important structural relationships, developmental events, or theories. * The authors revive a few forgotten theories and offer several new ones regarding the development and organization of the human spinal cord. Development of the Human Spinal Cord will be of interest to developmental biologists, neuroscientists, embryologists, molecular biologists (those working on stem cell research), pediatric neurologists, pathologists, child and developmental psychologists, and their students and trainees.
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(This first volume in the Atlas of Human Central Nervous S...)
This first volume in the Atlas of Human Central Nervous System Development series sets the stage with complete coverage of the spinal cord from gestational week 4 to the 4th postnatal month. 3D color images provide a holistic view of the structural changes during spinal cord morphogenesis. This landmark first volume: • Provides quantitative summaries of several ontogenetic trends • Features all the stages of spinal cord development • Offers fresh insights into the steps involved in the morphogenesis of the mature spinal cord • Shows the human spinal cord at its most primitive stage, when consisting mainly of neuroepithelial stem cells This atlas is also available as part of the complete five volume series.
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(The result of 3 decades of original research and instruct...)
The result of 3 decades of original research and instruction by internationally referenced authors, Drs. Joseph Altman and Shirley A. Bayer, the Atlas of Prenatal Rat Brain Development provides a complete, state-of-the-art presentation of the developing prenatal rat brain. With the aid of advanced computer graphics, Altman and Bayer revolutionize the study of the highly vulnerable prenatal brain and bring us closer to understanding the dynamics of its development, its malfunctions, deficits, and abnormalities. Their contributions to the field of brain research, and hence to our knowledge of brain disorders, are unsurpassed. The Atlas contains more than 265 platesÛeach plate accompanied by a computer-aided drawing, a 3-dimensional reconstruction of brain slices never before achieved with such accuracy and clarity, that assists in the visualization of the brain and of the relationships among various brain regions. A new, user-friendly alphanumeric coding system is used, allowing for easy identification of brain regions.
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(This volume is a detailed atlas of the embryonic developm...)
This volume is a detailed atlas of the embryonic development of the neocortex, one of the most elaborate and important structures in the mammalian brain. The authors describe their studies using the rat neocortex as a model system to provide a complete description of neocortical development in mammals. They examine, at daily intervals, the development of the rat neocortex from its earliest emergence until the day of birth. Three hundred colour and black-and-white illustrations, including computer-generated three-dimensional images, depict changes in the morphological and cellular development of the neocortex.
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Altman, Joseph was born on October 7, 1925 in Budapest, Hungary. Came to the United States, 1955, naturalized, 1979. Son of Samuel and Honor (Teitelbaum) Altman.
Doctor of Philosophy, New York University, 1959.
Altman discovered adult neurogenesis, the creation of new neurons in the adult brain, in the 1960s. As an independent investigator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his results were largely ignored in favor Pasko Rakic"s findings that neurogenesis is limited to pre-natal development. In the late 1990s, the fact that the brain can create new neurons even into adulthood was rediscovered by Elizabeth Gould in 1999, leading it to be one of the hottest fields in neuroscience.
Adult neurogenesis has recently been proven to occur in the dentate gyrus, olfactory bulb and striatum through the measurement of Carbon-14—the levels of which changed during nuclear bomb testing throughout the 20th century—in postmortem human brains.
Joseph Altman continued his career at Purdue University, where he wrote several articles and books on cerebellar development. He is now retired.
(There exists a wealth of information about the developmen...)
(This first volume in the Atlas of Human Central Nervous S...)
(This first volume in the Atlas of Human Central Nervous S...)
(This volume is a detailed atlas of the embryonic developm...)
(The cerebellum plays a vital role in the control of postu...)
(This is the Second Volume of a five-volume set of atlases...)
(The result of 3 decades of original research and instruct...)
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Married Shirley Ann Bayer, December 8, 1973. 1 child, Magda.