Neurosciences

This is a timely opus.

The brain functions like a computer composed of subsystems which in- teract in a hierarchical manner.

The original intent of the series Studies of Brain Function was to offer a forum to neurobiologists working in different fields to present some of their recent results in a more extensive way.

This booklet, together with the following two,-which are well under way and will succeed it at intervals of, we hope, no more than six months, sets the stage for a new editorial enterprise in the field of brain science.

Predation is an ecological factor of almost universal importance for the biol- ogist who aims at an understanding of the habits and structures of animals.

When I was asked by the Cancer Teaching Committee of the University of Chicago to set up a Symposium on Brain Tumors, I welcomed the opportunity to do so.

CT signs of early cerebral infarction are subtle within the first 6 hours after symptom onset, but important to recognize.

The studies described here were carried out in the Neuroregul- ation Group, Department of Physiology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

Gene expression converts the information coded by our genesinto proteins.

The research field of somatosensory processing in mammals has experienced revolutionary changes in recent years.

Over the past 10-20 years there has been an explosion of work on the disturbance of motor control that is manifested as "e;spasticity.

In this volume, one of a series of monographs devoted to the problems of cerebral ischemia and related topics, we present the proceedings of an international conference on Cerebral Ischemia and Basic Mechanisms held in Bad Schachen/Lake Constance, Germany in June 1992.

A new approach using comparative neuromorphology is taken inthis study dealing with the organization of the efferentnuclei of cranial nerves.

Obstetricians and pediatricians in daily practice will findhere the answersand explanations they need concerning themajor problem of perinatal asphyxia.

Neuro-ophthalmological symptoms frequently arise indisorders which alter the intracranial and intraorbitalcirculation.

Free radicals appear to play a mojor role in many neurological (and non- neurological) dieseases.

Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology helps biologists, physiologists, and biochemists keep track of the extensive literature in the field.

In 1957 Otto SCHAUMANN, one of the pionieers in pharmacological research on morphine and the first to prepare synthetic opiates, presented a mono- graph entitled "e;Morphin und morphiniihnliche Verbindungen"e; as Volume 12 of the Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology.

Bei Störungen des peripheren, sensiblen Nervensystems zeigt sich häufig eine Funktionsveränderung des Nervus suralis.

Exploration and play behaviour form the subject of thisbook, in which a wide range of research activities, boththeoretical and practical, are presented from variousfields.

Stability of the internal environment in which neuronal elements are situated is unquestionably an important prerequisite for the effective transmission of information in the nervous system.

during the past few years increasing interest has beenfocused on the role of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)outside the central nervous systems (CNS).

Rhythms are a basic phenomenon in all physiological systems.

In the past 5 years there has been an enormous increase of evidence that the ion channels activated by mechanical force are common to a wide variety of cell types.

From its discovery in 1929 by Hans Berger until the late 1960s, when sensory visual and auditory evoked potentials were dis- covered and became popular, the EEG was the most important method of neurophysiological examination.

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.