Neurosciences

This volume looks at the framework in which different scientific disciplines are integrated into the latest studies in behavioral neurogenetics, and covers new approaches toward understanding the system that controls behavior across the animal kingdom.

This revised, updated, and substantially expanded third edition provides an accessible, practical overview of major areas of research, technical development and clinical application in the field of neurorehabilitation movement therapy.

What produces emotions?

This book explores mathematical learning and cognition in early childhood from interdisciplinary perspectives, including developmental psychology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and education.

Tasting and Smelling presents a comprehensive overview to research on these two important modes of perception.

English-speaking scientists start with one vast advantage: the bulk of the world's scientific transactions are conducted in English.

Neurobiology of Brain Disorders: Biological Basis of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders, Second Edition provides basic scientists a comprehensive overview of neurological and neuropsychiatric disease.

The remarkable family of proteins that can make us very illbut can also be linked to long-term memory, immunity, and the origin of lifeOver the last decade, scientists have discovered the importance and widespread presence in the body of a remarkable family of proteins known as prion proteins.

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the psychology of emotion has grown to become its own field of study.

This volume explores methods used to examine metal levels and distribution in brain tissue or brain-derived cells.

It should come as no surprise to those interested in sensory processes that its research history is among the longest and richest of the many systematic efforts to understand how our bodies function.

Over the past decade, we have made great advances in the field of multiple sclerosis (MS) research, and this book focuses on those advances in MS pathogenesis and treatment.

Attention refers to our ability to selectively process the vast array of stimuli impinging upon our senses at every moment.

Most scientists agree that the 21st century will be the "e;Century of Biology"e;.

This detailed volume gathers methods essential for investigating the multifaceted roles of astrocytes in both physiology and pathological conditions.

The book describes the theoretical foundations and phenomenology of a hierarchical functional and organizational principle that is reflected in various concepts of the brain and mind.

Over the past few decades the involvement of neurosteroids in brain function and mental health has attracted much interest, not only from a neuroscience perspective, but also from clinical and therapeutic aspects.

Like the cracking of the genetic code and the creation of the atomic bomb, the discovery of how the brain's neurons work is one of the fundamental scientific developments of the twentieth century.

This book highlights the key phases and central findings of Alzheimer's Disease research since the introduction of the label 'Alzheimer's Disease' in 1910.

This book is a timely report on current neurotechnology research.

This full-length translation of Professor Luria's book introduces to the English- speaking world a major document in neuropsychology, summarizing Professor Luria's earlier contributions to that area for nearly a third of a century.

This is the second volume to be based on a series of symposia being held periodically on the neurobiology of conditioning.

This book is about the "e;Mechanism and Genetic susceptibility of Neurological disorders.

This multidisciplinary book discussing the role of the evolutionary basis for the brain mechanisms that support language.

Rove beetles (Staphylinidae) are common elements of the soil biota, living in the litter and deeper soil layers.

Active touch perception, or haptic perception, is of primary importance for the planning, direction and execution of everyday actions.

The Psychology of Eating is the essential multi-disciplinary introduction to the psychology of eating, looking at the biological, genetic, developmental, and social determinants of how humans find and assimilate food.

An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of our hands If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the suppression of emotion, you’d better think again—or rather not “think” at all.

This volume is the first comprehensive and single-authored book on the functions of the basal ganglia.

This issue of International Review of Neurobiology is split over 2 volumes, bringing together cutting-edge research on Bioinformatics of Behavior.

This book is a colorful journey into the fascinatingly diverse world of interneurons, an important class of highly heterogeneous cells found in all cortical neuronal networks.

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

A practical manual that provides a succinct and clinically relevant reference of routine clinical epilepsy care.

This informative publication updates the study of interaction of the nervous and endocrine systems with the immune system in the body.

This book is devoted to the welfare of invertebrates, which make up 99% of animal species on earth.

Cannabis Use, Neurobiology, Psychology, and Treatment offers readers a comprehensive reference on neurological changes, both transient and long-term, and other factors surrounding the use of these compounds and extracts.

Ayurvedic Herbal Preparations in Neurological Disorders provides a comprehensive and mechanistic understanding of the therapeutic potential of many ayurvedic herbal preparations in disease management.

The acetylcholine nicotinic receptor is an ionic channel whose aperture is directly controlled by acetylcholine.

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This book provides an essential overview of computational neuroscience.

Neuroimaging techniques that can help elucidate and characterize the nature and mechanism of tissue injury and disease progression in neurodegenerative disease are of particular importance given its their roles in seeking successful preventive and therapeutic treatments.

This book provides an overview of the key theoretical and empirical issues relating to autobiographical memory: the extraordinarily complex psychological activity that enables us to retrieve, relive and reappraise our pasts.

Freiheit ist ein Phänomen der Grenze.

The GnRH Neuron and its Control examines the developmental biology of GnRH neurons including their birth in the nasal placode of the early embryo, perinatal programming, and sexual differentiation, in addition to the hypothalamic mechanisms that control GnRH neurons in adulthood to generate pulsatile and surge modes of GnRH secretion throughout the major life stages including aging.