Neurosciences

Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer?

Pizzato focuses on the staging of Self and Other as phantom characters inside the brain (in the 'mind's eye', as Hamlet says).

Soul, Psyche, Brain is a collection of essays that address the relationships between neuroscience, religion and human nature.

This volume highlights current research on how the neuroendocrine system helps to influence emotional states and ultimately behavioral output.

This volume highlights current research on how the neuroendocrine system helps to influence emotional states and ultimately behavioral output.

The 2nd international tagging and tracking symposium was held in San Sebastian, Spain, in October 2007, seven years after the first symposium was held in Hawaii in 2000 (Sibert and Nielsen 2001).

Neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, alcoholism, substance abuse and others are one of the most debilitating illnesses worldwide characterizing by the complexity of the causes, and lacking the laboratory tests that may promote diagnostic and prognostic procedures.

Neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, alcoholism, substance abuse and others are some of the most debilitating illnesses worldwide characterized by the complexity of causes, and lacking the laboratory tests that may promote diagnostic and prognostic procedures.

Neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, alcoholism, substance abuse and others are some of the most debilitating illnesses worldwide characterizing by the complexity of the causes, and lacking the laboratory tests that may promote diagnostic and prognostic procedures.

The Welfare of Animals is an exciting book that will stimulate and provoke its readers.

The domestic pig is perceived as an animal with intelligence and character and yet, in the industrialized world, the majority of people have had little or no contact with them.

Understanding brain structure and principles of operation is one of the major challengesofmodernscience.

This book presents the latest findings in mechanosensitivity of the nervous system.

We have come to know that our ability to survive and grow as a nation to a very large degree depends upon our scientific progress.

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With the prevalence of neurodegenerative diseases on the rise as average life expectancy increases, the hunt for effective treatments and preventive measures for these disorders is a pressing challenge.

Nearly 97% of the human genome is the non-coding DNA, which varies from one species to another, and changes in these sequences are frequently noticed to manifest clinical and circumstantial malfunction.

Animal welfare is attracting increasing interest worldwide, but particularly from those in developed countries, who now have the knowledge and resources to be able to improve the welfare of farm animals.

This volume, Prefrontal Cortex: from Synaptic Plasticity to Cognition, is an interdisciplinary approach to characterize the function of the anterior portion of the frontal lobe in rodents and human and non-human primates.

Glial Neuronal Signaling fills a need for a monograph/textbook to be used in advanced courses or graduate seminars aimed at exploring glial-neuronal interactions.

The exponential growth in our knowledge on the pathophysiology of hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis and, in particular, of thyroid hormone action, largely stems from the studies on the various syndromes of resistance to the hormones involved in the function of the axis.

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the "e;moral brain"e; became a serious endeavour.

In recent years a growing number of proteases have been identified that catalyse peptide bond hydrolysis in the plane of the cellular membrane.

Scientists no longer accept the existence of a distinct moral organ as phrenologists once did.

Mitochondrial Medicine is a relatively new area where several disciplines from basic science to clinical medicine converge.

Animal welfare is attracting increasing interest worldwide, but particularly from those in developed countries, who now have the knowledge and resources to be able to offer the best management systems for their farm animals, as well as potentially being able to offer plentiful resources for companion, zoo and laboratory animals.

This volume contains research reports presented during the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "e;Materials for Application in Medicine and Biology"e; held in Bonn, Germany, from October 4 to 6, 2006 at the center of advanced european studies and research (caesar).

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.

Beyond their remarkable technical accomplishments, the new directions taken by the sciences in recent decades call for renewal of their epistemological basis.

Over the past few decades health-related quality of life (HRQL) has emerged as the new image of medicine viewed from a psychosocial perspective.

The goal of this book is to explore the complexity of a microscopic bit of matter that exists in a myriad of copies within our bodies, the voltage-sensitive ion channel.

Thanks to the popular media, and to books by Dawkins, Fortey, Gould, Margulis and other writers, people are informed about many aspects of biology.

Self-Organizing Natural Intelligence brings new scientific methods to intelligence research that is currently under the influence of largely classical 19th century single causal theory and method.

Environmental policy has long been determined by a dichotomy between technology and behavior.

The ability of striated muscle tissue to adapt to changes in activity or in working conditions is extremely high.

This book started its life during a symposium we organised on Quality of Life in Old Age at the Fifth Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Studies (ISQOLS) in Frankfurt in July 2003.

Animal welfare is attracting increasing interest worldwide, but particularly from those in developed countries, who now have the knowledge and resources to be able to offer the best management systems for their farm animals, as well as potentially being able to offer plentiful resources for companion, zoo and laboratory animals.

The relation between body and mind has presented philosophy with its perennial problem.

This volume includes the lectures and selected posters on different aspects of biological effects of EMF, presented at the NATO ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOP "e;The mechanisms of biological effect Extremely High Power Pulses (EHPP)"e; (3-5 March 2005) and the UNESCO/WHO/IUPAB Seminar "e;Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Biological Effects of EMF"e; (1-2 March 2005) that took place in Yerevan, Armenia.

We have come to know that our ability to survive and grow as a nation to a very large degree depends upon our scientific progress.

Since Bailey and Cushing (1926), all brain tumor classifications have been called histogenetic.

Animal welfare is attracting increasing interest worldwide, but particularly from those in developed countries, who now have the knowledge and resources to be able to offer the best management systems for their farm animals, as well as potentially being able to offer plentiful resources for companion, zoo and laboratory animals.

The majority of studies on the quality of life have been conducted in Western contexts and are based on Western participants.

Neuroacanthocytosis Syndromes is the first comprehensive review of a field that has not yet received the attention it deserves.

Childhood brain tumors are a diverse group of diseases characterized by the abnormal growth of tissue contained within the skull.

This book is a selection from the articles that I have written over a period of more than twenty years.

Brain Damage and Repair aims to attract the interest of neuroscientists and clinical neurologists by building a novel bridge from molecular research to clinical therapy.

Optic flow provides all the information necessary to guide a walking human or a mobile robot to its target.