Neurosciences

The Wisdom of the Eye is a survey of the major concepts underlying many of the basic sciences related to the human eye and visual brain in one volume, using anecdotes and a minimum of highly technical language to emphasize the important points.

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

Signal Transduction is a well-illustrated, coherent look at cellular signaling processes.

This book presents the latest scientific developments in the field of positron emission tomography (PET) dealing with data acquisition, image processing, applications, statistical analysis, tracer development, parameter estimation, and kinetic modeling.

Functional imaging of the brain is one of the most rapidly advancing areas of neuroscience and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) plays a major role in this progress.

Primer on Cerebrovascular Diseases is a handy reference source for scientists, students, and physicians needing reliable, up-to-date information on basic mechanisms, physiology, pathophysiology, and medical issues related to brain vasculature.

From neurons to nations, Talking Heads is a stunning survey of the science of human connection and communication.

During the last few years, the pace of research in the field of neuropeptide receptors has increased steadily: new neuropeptides were discovered, and the classification of receptor subtypes has been refined.

The gas nitric oxide (NO) has burst upon neuroscience only recently, and yet it has permeated into almost every avenue of current research.

Neurotoxicology: Approaches and Methods provides a unique and comprehensive presentation of the current concepts and state-of-the-art methods for the assessment of neurotoxicity.

One of the largest patient populations seen by neuropsychologists are older adults suffering from problems associated with aging.

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory provides an excellent overview of current information on this fast-growing field of neurobiology.

Control problems offer an industrially important application and a guide to understanding control systems for those working in Neural Networks.

This internationally authored volume presents major findings, concepts, and methods of behavioral neuroscience coordinated with their simulation via neural networks.

The world within reach is characterised to a large extent by our ability to sense objects through touch.

This book attempts to marry truth-conditional semantics with cognitive linguistics in the church of computational neuroscience.

This volume includes paradigms, model systems, and techniques for the study of dysfunctions in the nervous system.

In this volume contemporary methods designed to provide insights into, mathematical structure for, and predictive inferences about neuroendocrine control mechanisms are presented.

The volumes in this series include contemporary techniques significant to a particular branch of neuroscience.

Although the function of nitric oxide in a regulatory capacity in the central and peripheral nervous system is widely recognized, the full scope of its actions and its interrelationships with other classes of regulatory molecules is just beginning to be comprehended.

Remarkable advances in imaging have increased the importance of MRI for diagnostic, treatment and management of epilepsy.

Ion channels are membrane proteins that act as gated pathways for the movement of ions across cell membranes.

Psychoneuroimmunology investigates the relationships between behavior, psychosocial factors, the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems, and disease.

Leading experts in the field bring together diverse aspects of insect timing mechanisms.

In the early eighties when the H3 receptor was identified, many thought that an H3 ligand, an agonist or an antagonist, would become available as a therapeutic agent.

Hearing is a comprehensive, authoritative reference work covering both the physiological and perceptual aspects of hearing.

The Handbook of Developmental Neurotoxicology provides a comprehensive account of the impacts, mechanisms, and clinical relevances of chemicals on the development of the nervous system.

Scott Shannon is an MD, president elect of the American Holistic Medical Association, and considered a national expert on holistic psychiatry.

The emotional attachment of a child to caregivers, and the attachment of the caregivers to the child, is of vital importance to the child's socioemotional development.

The volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date treatise of the glutamatergic synapse and its environment.

Neuroscience Perspectives provides multidisciplinary reviews of topics in one of the most diverse and rapidly advancing fields in the life sciences.

Febrile Seizures is written by the most active researchers and clinicians in epilepsy research today.

The thalamus is a group of cells placed centrally in the brain that serve a critical role in controlling how both sensory and motor signals are passed from one part of the cerebral cortex to another.

Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain and dysfunction of glutamate transmission is the likely cause of a variety of diseases including neurodegeneration following cerebral ischemia, Huntington's chorea, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, epilepsy, spasticity, emesis, chronic pain, and schizophrenia.

Epilepsy is, after headache, the second most common neurological disorder.

CNS Regeneration focuses on some of the leading current neurological disease models and methods for promoting central nervous system regeneration.

This book describes human hereditary ion channel diseases of voltage- and ligand-gated ion channels covering the diverse fields of medicine myology, neurology, cardiology, and nephrology requiring a wide and interdisciplinary readership.

Investigation of the functional architecture of the human brain using modern noninvasive imaging techniques is a rapidly expanding area of research.

Brain Mapping: The Disorders is the first comprehensive text to describe the uses of the latest brain mapping technologies in the evaluation of patients with neurological, neurosurgical and psychiatric disorders.

Recent research into the anatomy and pathophysiology of the blood-brain and blood-spinal cord barriers suggests that a breakdown in these barriers can result in several diseases affecting the central nervous system (CNS).

Anomia is the inability to access spoken names for objects, most often associated with the elderly or those with brain damage to the left hemisphere.

This book details how "e;Alzheimer Disease"e; went from being an obscure neurologic diagnosis to a household word.

Volume 5 of Advances in Medicinal Chemistry contains four intriguing and detailed accounts of the close interface between synthetic chemistry, structure-activity relationships, biochemistry, and pharmacology.

Volume 33 reviews the current understanding of ion channel regulation by signal transduction pathways.

Some well-known age-related neurological diseases include Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, deafness, and blindness.

One of the most remarkable things about seeing is how effortless this complex task appears to be.

This volume summarizes the evolution and physiology of GnRH molecules and receptors, and provides insight as to how social behavior influences cellular and molecular events in the brain from a comparative perspective.

First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press.

It is commonly acknowledged that the nervous system and the immune system, those most complex of networks, share attributes beyond their intricacy.

The field of neurology is being transformed, from a therapeutically nihilistic discipline with few effective treatments, to a therapeutic specialty which offers new, effective treatments for disorders of the brain and spinal cord.