During the past quarter century, there has been a tremendous expansion in our knowledge about gastropods, their behavior and their neurobiology. We can understand a great deal about mammalian nervous systems by studying the relatively larger and simpler structure of the gastropod nervous system. Behavior and Its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs first reviews the broader aspects of molluscan biology and draws attention to the special features of the gastropod nervous system. The book then examines different types of behavior, reviewing progress in understanding the mechanisms of neural control, and emphasizing cases in which control can be attributed to identified neurons and identified neural circuits.

Ronald Chase is a professor emeritus of biology at McGill University. He is author of The Physical Basis of Mental Illness, Behavior and Its Neural Control in Gastropod Molluscs and The Making of Modern Psychiatry.

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"This is two valuable books in one volume: the behaviour of a large range of gastropods, and the neural basis of gastropod behaviour. . . . Neurologists will obviously benefit from reading this book, but so too will behavioural ecologists and ethologists. . . . The author picks modern examples, so that this book is an excellent review. However, there is also sufficient background to make the work accessible to undergraduate students. Here is a clearly written, well researched compendium of modern research which should be in every university library and on the bookshelves of all invertebrate neurologists and behaviourists." -- Bulletin of the Malacological Society of London

"[T]he book is ... a readable and useful introduction for the novice and contains much that was new and intriguing to one that has been trying to keep up with this literature for many years. ... It will be an important resource for model system neurobiologists for a long time to come and will also be valuable to those malacologists who would like an easy overview of [how] the gastropod model systems work."--The Veliger