The Rat Nervous System
- 5th Edition - June 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: George Paxinos, Steve Kassem
- Language: English
The Rat Nervous System, Fifth Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and students in neuroscience who are working on the rat and mouse as experimental models. The new e… Read more
The Rat Nervous System, Fifth Edition is an indispensable guide for researchers and students in neuroscience who are working on the rat and mouse as experimental models. The new edition provides thorough updates throughout, including the latest information in an active field of research on the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system and their unique functions. Readers will learn how to formulate sound hypotheses as well as carry out accurate research models.
- Adopts standard nomenclature aligned with the Atlas of the Human Brain
- Contains full color throughout
- Provides information that is applicable to other species, including the mouse and human, lending itself to many researchers
Standard reference book for all labs doing neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, behavioral neuroscience, or molecular expression/cloning/neurogenetics in the rat and mouse brain
1. Gene Maps and Related Histogenetic Domains in the Expanded Forebrain — Secondary Prosencephalon, Diencephalon and Midbrain
2. Neuromeric Heterochronic Neurogenesis in the Rat Midbrain, Diencephalon and Hypothalamus, as Revealed by Acetylcholinesterase Histochemistry and Autoradiographic Reports
3. Tangential Migration in the Telencephalon
4. Peripheral Autonomic Nervous System
5. Primary Afferents Projections to the Spinal Cord
6. Spinal Cord: Cyto- and Chemoarchitecture
7. Superficial Dorsal Horn of the Spinal Cord
8. Ascending and Descending Pathways of the Spinal Cord
9. Cerebellum and Cerebellar Connections
10. Locus Coeruleus
11. Oromotor Nuclei
12. Hypothalamic Supraoptic and Paraventricular Nuclei
13. Circumventricular Organs
14. Thalamus
15. Basal Ganglia
16. Globus Pallidus External and Internal: Telencephalic Origin in Both Rodents and Primates
17. Amygdala: Structure and Function
18. Organisation of the Forebrain Cholinergic System and its Interaction with Glia
19. Hippocampal Formation
20. Cingulate Cortex
21. Insula Cortex
22. Isocortex
23. Central Autonomic
24. Somatosensory System
25. Gustatory System
26. Olfactory System
27. Vestibular System
28. Auditory System
29. Visual System
30. Cerebral Vascular System
31. Neuroglia
32. Neuroanatomical Terms and their Abbreviations
2. Neuromeric Heterochronic Neurogenesis in the Rat Midbrain, Diencephalon and Hypothalamus, as Revealed by Acetylcholinesterase Histochemistry and Autoradiographic Reports
3. Tangential Migration in the Telencephalon
4. Peripheral Autonomic Nervous System
5. Primary Afferents Projections to the Spinal Cord
6. Spinal Cord: Cyto- and Chemoarchitecture
7. Superficial Dorsal Horn of the Spinal Cord
8. Ascending and Descending Pathways of the Spinal Cord
9. Cerebellum and Cerebellar Connections
10. Locus Coeruleus
11. Oromotor Nuclei
12. Hypothalamic Supraoptic and Paraventricular Nuclei
13. Circumventricular Organs
14. Thalamus
15. Basal Ganglia
16. Globus Pallidus External and Internal: Telencephalic Origin in Both Rodents and Primates
17. Amygdala: Structure and Function
18. Organisation of the Forebrain Cholinergic System and its Interaction with Glia
19. Hippocampal Formation
20. Cingulate Cortex
21. Insula Cortex
22. Isocortex
23. Central Autonomic
24. Somatosensory System
25. Gustatory System
26. Olfactory System
27. Vestibular System
28. Auditory System
29. Visual System
30. Cerebral Vascular System
31. Neuroglia
32. Neuroanatomical Terms and their Abbreviations
- Edition: 5
- Latest edition
- Published: June 1, 2026
- Language: English
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George Paxinos
George Paxinos has written 62 books on the brain of humans, monkeys, rodents and birds. His first atlas, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, is the most cited neuroscience publication. His Atlas of the Human Brain received The Award for Excellence in Publishing in Medical Science (Assoc American Publishers, 1997) and The British Medical Association Illustrated Book Award (2016). His eco-fiction book A River Divided (georgepaxinos.com.au) considers the question of whether the brain in the Goldilocks Zone - the right “size” for survival.
Affiliations and expertise
NHMRC Senior Principal, NeuRA, AustraliaSK
Steve Kassem
Steve Kassem is a Senior Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia and The University of New South Wales. He has authored two brain atlases, Atlas of the Developing Mouse Brain and Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Rat Brain. He developed a modification of the Golgi Stain, the Ultra-Rapid-Golgi stain, permitting use on cleared and fixed tissue and has assembled one of the largest online collections of histological material, brainreservoir.neura.edu.au. With Paxinos, Dalton and Smith, he constructed a unified list of CNS terms for humans, monkeys, rodents and birds, cnsterms.neura.edu.au.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Research Fellow, NeuRA, Sydney, Australia