Neurosciences

The objective of this series is to provide concise and critical information on current advances in the different domains of sensory physiology.

In the present work, processes of cell proliferation, cell death, neurogenesis, and gliogenesis in the mouse hippocampus were studied.

Over the past few years, genetics research has been in a phase of remarkably sustained and continuous revolution.

It is a great honor and pleasure for me to introduce this book; an honor, because of the scientific renown and authority of the investigators who have edited the volume and contributed the chapters; a pleasure, because my own long-lasting interest in the baroreflexes has always gone in the same directions as those along which the authors of this book have conceived and organized their work.

Often being vastly underrated the human sense of smell playsan essential role in our life, e.

In contrast to dementia of the Alzheimer type, the subject of dementia subsequent to cerebral ischemia has been discussed rather rarely.

This volume contains the collected papers of the NATO Conference on Neurocomputing, held in Les Arcs in February 1989.

Eine der Behandlungsmöglichkeiten beim Vorliegen einer Depression ist die Gabe von selektiven Serotonin- aufnahmehemmern.

This is the ninth volume in a series dealing with induced lesions in laboratory animals.

In spite of a long history of intense investigation the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies remain a poorly understood family of neurodegenerative diseases.

Original study and a review of the pertinent literature are presented in this monograph on the early development of the neopallial wall and the choroidal area in vertebrates before the appearance of nerve cells.

Being both broad - perception and motor organization - andnarrow - just onegroup of animals - at the same time, thisbook presents a new unified framework for understandingperceptuomotor organization, stressing the importance of anecological perspective.

This study on the human midbrain examines how specific neuroanatomical structures are involved in the aging process and in certain degenerative diseases of the nervous system.

Bei automatischen Spracherkennungssystemen erweist sich ein Wechsel des Sprechers als besonderes Problem: Ein zuvor durch eine andere Person trainiertes Erkennungssystem hat eine deutlich erhöhte Fehlerwahrscheinlichkeit.

Latest issue in the CURRENT TOPICS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY se-ries which has been gaining a great deal of reputation as aprimary source for reviews in neuroendocrinology and relatedareas in the past few years.

A host of environmental factors regulate the embryonic development of neurons.

Rarely have the many mechanisms that might underlie neural plasticity been examined as explicitly as they are in this broad, lavishly illustrated treatment of plasticity in the somatosensory system.

The book includes new data on imaging techniques, neuropathology, neurochemistry, and molecular biology.

The introduction of the operating microscope as a surgical tool revolutionized the treatment of peripheral nerve lesions.

This monographic work authored by eminent neurophysiologists will be of major interest to researchers investigating the visual system or working in behavioral neuroscience and sleep research.

The basic thesis for this study was that the telencephalon is needed to make decisions in new situations.

This book is the fruit of a study group on perception and action that worked at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiP) of the University of Bielefeld, FRG in the academic year 1984-1985.

The Brain-What Else!

Demands on a Neurosurgeon Under Routine Clinical Conditions' "e;Hardly any other field of surgery requires such meticulous asepsis.

Specialists in biochemistry and cell biology of cellular communication give an overview of current knowledge in this field.

In July 1989 a symposium was held at the Physiology Department of the Georg August University, G6ttingen, on the physiological, biophysical, biochemical, and technical principles of the coding of chemical substances both in nervous systems and artificial devices.

This state-of-the-art review links the experimental data into a cohesive and critical account of CNS regeneration.

As indicated in the Preface, the contributions to this volume are based upon the papers presented at the symposium on Thermoreceptors and Temperature Regula- tion held in July 1988 at the Institute of Physiology of the University of Marburg (Federal Republic of Germany) to celebrate and commemorate the life and achievements of HERBERT HENSEL, who directed that Institute from 1955 until his death in 1983, and whose most notable and significant contributions to thermo- physiology were in the areas of the properties and characteristics of thermo sensors, mammalian thermoregulation more generally, and the psychophysiology of ther- mal sensation.

This volume contains the contributions to a Satellite Symposium of the XXXI In- ternational Congress of Physiological Sciences in Espoo, Helsinki, Finland, July 15-17,1989.

The analysis of deterministic chaos is currently an active field in many branches of research.

Evolution of Castes in Insects l BERNHARD RENSCH The evolution of organisms in the succession of generations has been primarilly achieved through the appearance of new hereditary variants with minor deviations along with the development of stable structures and functions.

The 17th volume of the "e;Advances in Neurosurgery"e; contains a selection of the scientific reports of the 39th annual meeting of the German Society for Neurosurgery, which was held in Cologne from May 8-11, 1988.

In dem vorliegenden Band wird das Thema Geburtsschmerz unter dem Aspekt neuer neurobiologischer Erkenntnisse behandelt.

This workshop was the second of this series held on the island of santorini in the Cycladic Sea.

The relatively simple, stratified nature of the retina and its spe- fied use in the visual process has long made it an inviting tissue to study both for its own sake and as a model for the more complex processes of the brain.

The papers published in this Volume are the fruits of a symposium held in Regensburg in April 1987.

Hirnorganische Wesensänderungen und dementielle Syndrome sind im Alter häufig und nehmen "epidemisch" zu.

This volume is based on contributions to the second Brain Dynamics Conference, held in Berlin on August 10-14, 1987, as a satellite conference of the Budapest Congress of the International Brain Research Organization.

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

In dem Buch wird ein neues Verfahren, die elektromagnetische Artikulographie (EMA), vorgestellt, das erstmals eine direkte, medizinisch ungefährliche Untersuchung der Mundmotorik beim Sprechen erlaubt.

As in other volumes in the series, this newest volume conveys up-to-date knowledge in a clear and straightforward manner.

Neural networks are not rigidly wired but rather highly plastic structures, the functional architecture of which can be actively reorganized in response to external or internal events.

In July, 1988, more than 300 scientists from 29 different countries gathered at Tiibingen, W.

Acromegaly is a relatively rare chronic disease.

Sympathetic afferent fibers originate from a visceral organ, course in the thoracolumbar rami communicantes, have cell bodies located in dorsal root ganglia, and terminate in the gray matter of the spinal cord.