Neurosciences

This volume illustrates to the public, and legal experts, the basic principles of the field of neuroscience, that commonly goes under the name of Neurolaw.

This volume of the Series SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences summarizes the newest finding in the field of mental health and physiological exercise in Space.

This volume of Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science focuses on the molecular biology of eye disease.

This unique book clearly explains genetic and neuroimaging research on intelligence and how neuroscience findings may lead to enhancing it.

This book develops an evolutionary theory of crime.

Although neural modeling has a long history, most of the texts available on the subject are quite limited in scope, dealing primarily with the simulation of large-scale biological neural networks applicable to describing brain function.

This volume offers an up-to-date overview of essential concepts and modern approaches to computational modelling, including the use of experimental techniques related to or directly inspired by them.

The Lateralized Brain: The Neuroscience and Evolution of Hemispheric Asymmetries is an up-to-date teaching resource for neuroscience faculty members that teach courses concerning hemispheric asymmetries.

This detailed volume compiles the best methodologies and experimental techniques to profile and extract maximal data from brain tumor stem cells (BTSCs), the experimental paradigm for brain cancer research that offers insights into cancer stem cell populations that may drive not only tumor initiation but tumor recurrence and patient relapse.

This thoroughly updated second edition of Restoring the Brain is the definitive book on the theory and the practice of Infra-Low Frequency brain training.

A complete, yet accessible and up-to-date, introduction to the cellular physiology of nerve, and skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle.

This book provides comprehensive insights into emerging trends on calcium signaling in the nervous system from triggering signal transduction neuronal pathways to regulation of brain functions.

The CTBN volume Therapeutic Applications of Dopamine D3 Receptor Function reviews the state of the knowledge on the dopamine D3 receptor and its role in human behavior and disease (i.

In this autobiography, Sir Peter Mansfield describes his life from war time childhood that initially sparked his interest in physics to his work in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that eventually led to the award of the Nobel Prize in 2003.

Biomechanics studies of animals in swimming and flying can serve an increasing role in understanding the mechanisms that enable animals to move effectively and efficiently in fluid, as well as analyzing the characteristics of their various forms of behavior in fluid.

This book deals with recent perspectives on the panel of addiction behavior in a vast amount of population (young and adult).

In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A.

What's so special about music?

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge concerning neuropathologies resulting from drug abuse.

Essential Clinically Applied Anatomy of the Peripheral Nervous System in the Limbs is designed to combine the salient points of the anatomy of the PNS with typical pathologies affecting the nerves of the upper and lower limbs.

Applying neurophysiological methods to the study of brain-behavior relationships proved to be a major advance in the early days of neuroscience research.

Amongst educators, scientists and policy-makers there is a growing belief that the field of education can benefit from an understanding of the brain.

Neurological disorders cause untold suffering and financial burden to hundreds of thousands of people, not only to the patients, but also the relatives and society.

When you make a decision or form an opinion, you think you know why.

Representing the state-of-the-art in neurochemical mapping, Chemoarchitectonic Atlas of the Developing Mouse Brain provides a complete, full-color look at the developing mouse brain.

Laboratory animals, including birds, play an important role in biomedical research.

Mitochondrial diseases comprise a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of rare disorders that may affect virtually any system of the body at any age.

What is the nature of human creativity?

This book is a result of a Symposium* organized by the Editors in October 1984 at San Diego.

Executive Brain Vitality: Achieving Optimal Brain Health and Maintenance presents research on the effect of brain exercise as a preventative measure for neurodegenerative diseases and other conditions.

One of the world''s most distinguished anthropologists proposes that cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists.

A few disorders have some of the same symptoms as schizophrenia including schizoaffective disorders, schizophreniform disorder, schizotypal and schizoid personality disorders, delusional disorder, and autism (schizophrenia spectrum disorders).

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of how translation and cognition relate to each other, discussing the most important issues in the fledgling sub-discipline of Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS), from foundational to applied aspects.

This volume provides a broad overview of issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, covering four main themes: genetic, developmental, evolutionary, and neurobiological explanations of behavior.

This issue of International Review of Neurobiology brings together cutting-edge research on tissue engineering of the peripheral nerve.

An authoritative, multidisciplinary collection of the latest research into autism spectrum disorders, featuring contributions from leading experts in the field.

How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it?

This book offers a critical review of the head and neck from an anatomical, physiological and clinical perspective.

Handbook of Nutrition, Diet, and the Eye, Second Edition, thoroughly addresses common features and etiological factors on how dietary and nutritional factors affect the eye.

Complex Systems Science in BiomedicineThomas S.

The End of Alzheimer's: The Brain and Beyond, Second Edition is the first comprehensive overview on the molecular basis of Alzheimer's outside of the brain, merging the most recent findings within the field into a single book.

Principles of Musical Acoustics focuses on the basic principles in the science and technology of music.

There is growing interest in the field of melatonin research regarding its neurobiological mechanisms as well as its repercussions in clinical practice.

This volume contains invited and contributed papers presented at the 12th edition of the International Summer School on Neural Networks "e;Eduardo R.

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An Introduction to Applied Cognitive Psychology offers an accessible review of recent research in the application of cognitive methods, theories, and models.

This book examines the best available empirical evidence regarding one of the most challenging and pervasive questions throughout ages, cultures, and religions: the survival of human consciousness after death.

A look at the true nature of the zombie brainEven if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one.