Neuroscience Fundamentals for Communication Sciences and Disorders

This comprehensive textbook is primarily designed for undergraduate neural bases or graduate neuroscience courses in communication sciences and disorders programs (CSD). The text can also be used as an accessible go-to reference for speech-language pathology and audiology clinical professionals practicing in medical and rehab settings. Written with an engaging and conversational style, the author uses humor and analogies to explain concepts that are often challenging for students. Complemented by more than 400 visually rich and beautifully drawn full-color illustrations, the book emphasizes brain and behavior relationships while also ensuring coverage of essential neuroanatomy and neurophysiology in an integrative fashion. With a comprehensive background in the principles, processes, and structures underlying the workings of the human nervous system, students and practitioners alike will be able to better understand and apply brain-behavior relationships to make appropriate clinical assessments and treatment decisions.

New to the Third Edition

• Addition of 45 detailed clinical case studies, strategically integrated throughout the chapters to strengthen structure–function–disorder connections and teach clinical reasoning
• Over 80 summary tables, including nearly 40 new ones, to support efficient review and consolidation of key concepts
• A new dedicated chapter on neural mechanisms of speech and language, with streamlined theoretical discussions and expanded clinical coverage of neurologically based communication disorders
• Extensive reorganization of content into four new thematic sections for better progression and integration across topics
• Division of longer neuroanatomy chapters into shorter, more digestible, and logically sequenced content
• Separate speech, language, and hearing chapters from the previous edition are now embedded within neuroanatomical and systems chapters for better structure–function–behavior integration
• Reorganization of auditory system chapters for clearer peripheral-to-central progression and improved sequencing
• Restructuring of motor systems content, including a new unified chapter linking muscle contraction with direct motor control and a separate chapter dedicated to indirect motor systems
• Consolidation of neuroplasticity and sensorimotor learning content into a final streamlined capstone chapter, emphasizing behavioral adaptability and sensorimotor learning

PluralPlus Online Ancillaries

• For Instructors: PowerPoint Slides, Test Bank, Image Bank, Syllabus
  For Students: eFlashcards, Unlabeled versions of the anatomy illustrations