Neurosciences

This book presents a summary of the multimodal analysis of user-generated multimedia content (UGC).

Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of a key topic within the multidisciplinary fields of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology.

This book provides the reader with a well-structured, comprehensive approach to hydrocephalus and related syndromes.

This multi-disciplinary collection of essays captures discussion, thinking and research surrounding the recent surge of interest in how technology can help us as we age.

This book offers a broad perspective on the field of cognitive engineering and neuroergonomics, covering emerging practices and future trends toward the harmonious integration of human operators with computational systems.

Assembles international authorities to address contemporary research in metal neurotoxicity.

The purpose of this textbook is to enable a Neuroscientist to discuss the structure and functions of the brain at a level appropriate for students at many levels of study including undergraduate, graduate, dental or medical school level.

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are believed to be the largest family of membrane proteins involved in signal transduction and cellular responses.

This volume provides a comprehensive and updated review of perineuronal satellite cells in sensory ganglia.

This volume is devoted to descriptions of non medical as well as medical uses for some drugs that have typically, or not so typically, been associated with drug abuse.

This book is intended for use in advanced graduate courses in statistics / machine learning, as well as for all experimental neuroscientists seeking to understand statistical methods at a deeper level, and theoretical neuroscientists with a limited background in statistics.

This monograph describes the findings of spaceflight research related to spatial orientation, sensorimotor coordination and mental function.

The authors present the most current and cutting-edge knowledge regarding the molecular basis of cerebellar development, focusing on information relevant to laboratory scientists and clinicians providing service to patients with cerebellar disorders.

Both communicable and noncommunicable diseases of the respiratory system are an increasing healthcare problem despite medical advances.

Presents a comprehensive review of nonhuman primate audition and vocal communication.

Medicinal chemistry is both science and art.

The present book aims to examine how sexual selection works in the human species.

PDEs are a family of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of intracellular cyclic nucleotides.

This book discusses the emerging field of industrial neuroscience, and reports on the authors' cutting-edge findings in the evaluation of mental states, including mental workload, cognitive control and training of personnel involved either in the piloting of aircraft and helicopters, or in managing air traffic.

Intended as a guide for wildlife managers and ecotourism operators, as well as interested ecotourists, this book addresses the biological principles governing how ecotourism affects wildlife.

This book explains, in simple but accurate terms, how orthodox quantum mechanics works.

Published in 2014, Protein Deimination in Human Health and Disease was the first book on this novel post-translational modification, in which selected positively-charged arginine amino acids are converted to neutral citrulline amino acids by the peptidyl-arginine deiminase (PAD) family of enzymes.

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This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die?

This volume presents a review of recent developments in nitrogen fixation using transition metal-dinitrogen complexes in the last decade.

This book summarizes the latest research on drug and gene delivery to the central nervous system (CNS).

A traditional view of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) considers only its peripheral part: the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.

This issue of Current Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience focuses on the neuropeptide orexin (hypocretin) and brings together scientists from around the world who will provide a timely discussion of how this peptide regulates behavior.

This book combines classic MR anatomy with current understanding of human brain function.

The 2nd World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2016), will focus on recent advances in geriatrics and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments and will provide an international focum for the latest scientific discoveries, medical practices, and care initiatives.

The science of cannabinoids is 50 years old.

This book offers representative examples from fly and mouse models to illustrate the ongoing success of the synergistic, state-of-the-art strategy, focusing on the ways it enhances our understanding of sensory processing.

The 2nd World Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Disease Research (GeNeDis 2016), will focus on recent advances in geriatrics and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments and will provide an international focum for the latest scientific discoveries, medical practices, and care initiatives.

This book describes the prize-winning brain-computer-interface (BCI) projects honored in the community's most prestigious annual award.

This work is motivated by the ongoing open question of how information in the outside world is represented and processed by the brain.

Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are members of the group C family of G-protein-coupled receptors.

This ambitious compendium provides an extensive overview on the "e;supporting cells"e; of the vertebrate central nervous system, these being glial cells which far outnumber neurons but are much less understood.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach to linguistic and sign structures as an integrated response to multilevel and interrelated problems in semiolinguistic research.

This book presents neuromorphic cognitive systems from a learning and memory-centered perspective.

This is the first book entirely dedicated to exploring issues associated with the nature of neuroethics.

This book discusses theories that link functions to specific anatomical brain regions.

This book is the first comprehensive work summarizing the advances that have been made in the neurosurgical use of navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) over the past ten years.

This book offers the policy-maker or decision-maker key insights and practical information regarding the features of ethics frameworks best suited to the ethical assessment of human cognitive enhancement (HCE) applications, such as pharmaceutical cognitive enhancers and noninvasive brain stimulation techniques.

The book deeply focuses on the epidemiology, diagnostics, therapy and molecular basis of canine and feline dementia or cognitive dysfunction syndrome.

This book offers focused and concise coverage of all issues relating to malnutrition in the field of neurology, and in particular addresses practical aspects of nutritional support from a neurology perspective.

The aim of this unique book is to provide an overview of recent advances bridging the gap between psychiatry and neuroscience, allowing a fruitful dialogue between both sciences.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects approximately 1 % of the human population and is characterized by a core symptomatology including deficits in social interaction and repetitive patterns of behaviour plus various co-morbidities.

Designer drugs, or new psychoactive substances (NPS), are synthetic chemicals that mimic the effects of classic drugs of abuse.

This book focuses on posttraumatic repair and reconstruction of peripheral nerves.

This SHAR volume serves to expand, supplement, and update the original "e;Cochlea"e; volume in the series.