Serves as an up-to-date survey of cellular and molecular events that contribute to the assembly of the vertebrate nervous system
Will serve as readily tractable source for advanced undergraduate neuroscience majors and advanced-level graduate students
Chapters include a mixture of historical content and descriptions from both the vertebrate and invertebrate literature that best illustrate specific aspects of development
Liberal use of simple diagrams and tables readily illustrate complex issues
Covers classic topics of neural development, including axial patterning, cell proliferation, migration, cell death, and synapse formation, as well as topics that often receive superficial coverage in other texts, such as oligodendrocyte and astrocyte development and developmental mechanisms related to the process of aging
A consistency of style that is unusual and refreshing in a multiauthored text

Making a Neural Tube: Neural Induction and Neurulation.- Cell Proliferation in the Developing Mammalian Brain.- Anteroposterior and Dorsoventral Patterning.- Neural Crest and Cranial Ectodermal Placodes.- Neurogenesis.- The Oligodendrocyte.- Astrocyte Development.- Neuronal Migration in the Developing Brain.- Guidance of Axons and Dendrites.- Synaptogenesis.- Programmed Cell Death.- Regeneration and Repair.- Developmental Mechanisms in Aging and Age-Related Diseases of the Nervous System.- Beginnings of the Nervous System.