Neurosciences

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.

The concept of Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) is often difficult to grasp, even for Magnetic Resonance physicists.

In the past decade neuronal plasticity has become a major theme of modern neurobiology, from cellular and molecular mechanisms of synapse formation in worms and insects to behavioural recovery from strokes in elderly humans.

The book highlights different aspects of current understanding of neurotrophin-receptor signal transduction pathways, including the signaling endosome hypothesis.

Neurobiology of Addiction is conceived as a current survey and synthesis of the most important findings in our understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction over the past 50 years.

Neurons: Methods and Applications for the Cell Biologist lays out numerous simple techniques for growing and carrying out experiments with many varieties of neurons.

The present volume was assembled in honor of Professor Alan Cowey FRS, and attempts to embrace his wide range of research interests in visual neuroscience.

Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists.

International Review of Neurobiology is a well-respected series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists.

International Review of Neurobiology is a well-respected series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists.

Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists.

It is well recognized that there is an intimate and reciprocal interaction between epilepsy and sleep.

This volume is the first in a planned series of thematic volumes for Advances in Virus Research.

Advances in Insect Physiology publishes eclectic volumes containing important, comprehensive and in-depth reviews on all aspects of insect physiology.

Tay-Sachs disease is a rare hereditary disease caused by a genetic mutation that leaves the body unable to produce an enzyme necessary for fat metabolism in nerve cells, producing central nervous system degeneration.

Oxidative stress is the result of an imbalance in pro-oxidant/antioxidant homeostasis that leads to the generation of toxic reactive oxygen species.

Through real-time assessments of how the patient's nervous system is functioning throughout a surgical procedure, Neurophysiology in Neurosurgery presents vital techniques to guide surgeons in their efforts to minimize the risks of unintentional damage to healthy nervous tissue.

This book examines the role of neurons in multiple sclerosis (MS) and the changes that occur in neurons as a result of MS.

Within you lie all the tools to shape the person you want to become.

Time-to-contact is the visual information that observers use in fundamental tasks such as landing an airplane or hitting a ball.

Over the past 25 years the amount of data pertaining to the GABAergic function in the basal ganglia has increased dramatically.

The first edition of Neurobiology of Learning and Memory was published in 1998 to rave reviews.

The book describes the mechanisms involved in the maintenance of neuroendocrine-immune interactions in ageing.

Comprised of two separate volumes, Neuroimaging provides a state-of-the-art review of a broad range of neuroimaging techniques applied to both clinical and research settings.

Published since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology is a well-known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists.

This book is for everyone who longs to feel high on life naturally***AS SEEN ON LORRAINE***'Useful for anyone wishing to brighten up their lives Sunday Times'These six hormones have the power to change your life' Telegraph____Neurochemicals affect just about everything in our bodies, including how we think and feel.

Acknowledgement This book is the result of a collective effort.

The neuroscience of why bad habits are so hard to break-and how evidence-based strategies can help us change our behavior more effectivelyWe all have habits we'd like to break, but for many of us it can be nearly impossible to do so.