Basic Concepts in Neuroscience: A Student´s Survival Cuide is designed to provide a quick reference to the key topics in neuroscience. It is oriented toward the needs of medical, graduate, and advanced undergraduate students. Each chapter highlights the basic principies of the field, coupled with a description of experimental protocols that clarifies and amplifies the subject. Although interrelated, each chapter is intended to be self-explanatory so the student can focus on areas of interest. This book is designed to be easily read and to quickly guide students through the fundamentals of neuroscience. The format of each chapter includes highlighted summary statements. The authors made a special effort to include many flowcharts and figures in each chapter that can serve as study guides. We recommend that students review these statements and figures to obtain an overview of the chapter. In striving for clarity, we emphasized essential principies and made brevity a virtue. We hope the reader values this approach, however, we recommend that this book be used in combination with a more extensive neuroscience textbook.