Neurosciences

This new volume documents the transition from the development of electrochemical monitoring of brain function, now more than 40 years old, to fundamental neuroscience.

This book summarizes various tools and techniques used to provide insights into the cellular and molecular pathophysiology of stroke.

This book focuses on the sleep-related disorders in Parkinson's disease (PD), demonstrating that they are among the most common non-motor manifestations of PD and have a significant negative impact on quality of life.

The problem of how the brain produces consciousness, subjectivity and 'something it is like to be' remains one of the greatest challenges to a complete science of the natural world.

This book comprehensively reviews the relationship between micronutrients and brain in health and diseases.

This book describes the recent advancement of basic research on the biology of aging and longevity studies in various organisms, as well as the neurobiology of aging and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the state of knowledge on the role of microbes in inducing autoimmune diseases.

This book provides an overview of bidirectional communication between gut-microbiome-brain, pathways, nutrients, and metabolites that are involved in microbiota gut-brain axis (MGBA) interactions.

Ambition, genius, thought, imagination, love, hate, greed and, above all, consciousness ourselves as alive and as part of our world - all this is somehow enabled by the brain.

This book explores the latest developments in the field the acute phase protein (APP), C-reactive protein or CRP in different diseases, highlighting the structural and functional aspects of CRP in disease biology.

This book is to improve our understanding of mechanisms leading to seizures in humans and in developing new therapeutic options.

This book discusses the evolution of sleep and its possible function in the higher invertebrates and vertebrates, including humans.

This book illustrates the importance and significance of regenerative medicine in stroke recovery.

This book explains neural function at the level of ion channels and membrane excitability in neurons along the ascending auditory pathway.

This book provides an essential overview of the broad range of functional brain imaging techniques, as well as neuroscientific methods suitable for various scientific tasks in fundamental and clinical neuroscience.

The book reviews the recent developments in brain imaging and their technological advancements to understand molecular mechanisms associated with neurological disorders and basic behaviors in humans and rodents at the structural, molecular, and functional levels.

The contents of this book continues the theme as in the previous volume on cultural patterns and cognitive patterns in the East and West, with special regard to those patterns which are determined by our natural-genetic endownments in contrast to those patterns which are influenced by our cultural ('East-West') influences, and within this context a unique flavour is given to the 'good life' aspects of adapting to this global community.

This informative book discusses the latest research on the risk factors and therapeutics in dementia.

Natural Products have always played a pivotal role as sources for drug lead compounds.

Written by an international team of leading experts in neuroscience, this book presents an overview of some of the main schools of thought as well as current research trends in neuroscience.

This book presents recent advances in pattern analysis of the human connectome.

This book presents the conceptual and mathematical basis and the implementation of both electroencephalogram (EEG) and EEG signal processing in a comprehensive, simple, and easy-to-understand manner.

Organizational communication is at a crossroads and professional communicators and leaders alike need to up their game.

This book discusses the underlying mechanisms connecting the brain and heart.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of small fiber neuropathy (SFN), from diagnosis to therapy.

This book provides an accessible introduction to an exciting new field of life science in which the focus is on small numbers of molecules and minorities within cell populations and their significance for the understanding of biological phenomena.

This innovative edited collection brings together leading international academics to explore the use of various non-prescription and prescription substances.

This volume explores major light microscopic imaging modalities that can be used to view nervous tissue, and discusses the steps needed to use each of them, and ways to interpret the data.

This second edition volume details the latest aspects of neural cells covering the practical and theoretical considerations of each techniques involved.

This volume explores the latest research in central nervous system (CNS) targeted nanocarriers, methods for their synthesis, and its characterization process.

This volume explores the latest techniques used to better understand the brain reward system with respect to neurotransmitters, brain structures, and connectivity.

This volume explores the recent advances in the study of translational paths in central inflammation and focuses on ongoing pathophysiological processes and the transition between inflammatory stages and progressive states with neurodegeneration.

This volume discusses different approaches to workflows for large volume electron microscopy - from preparation of samples to their imaging in a variety of microscopes - in some cases also applying correlative techniques.

This volume provides cutting edge protocols for using optogenetic and opto-chemical techniques across a wide spectrum of applications.

This detailed book focuses on cutting-edge methods for Parkinson's disease (PD) research, such as the analysis of the prion-like properties of a-synuclein, mitochondrial functions related to the PINK1-Parkin pathway/CHCHD2, the endolysosome pathway related to LRRK2, VPS35, and ATP13A2 using cultured cells (including patient iPS cells), deep brain stimulation therapy, classic mitochondrial toxins related to PD, and genetic associations and screenings using mammalian and invertebrate genetic models of PD.

This volume provides a guide on nanoformulations and other drug delivery approaches for both academic and industry scientists.

This volume discusses the proper applications of cognitive behavioral theory (CBT) to common clinical presentations.

Synapses underlie rapid and flexible neural communication in the brain and they hold the key to understanding higher brain functions in health and disease.

This volume contains experimental approaches that are currently revolutionizing our understanding of the neurobiology of pain.

This detailed book explores techniques for further elucidating the peripheral and central roles of oxytocin as well as techniques key to oxytocin receptor-related drug discovery.

This volume discusses the requirements, advantages, and limitations of studying cell culture.

This volume presents techniques and recent developments in biochemical approaches to study glutamatergic neurotransmission.

Brain Energy Metabolism addresses its challenging subject by presenting diverse technologies allowing for the investigation of brain energy metabolism on different levels of complexity.

This volume describes a range of standard and novel methodological approaches used to probe ion channel function across different modalities.

This volume provides researchers with up-to-date protocols and takes aclose look at current research and promising applications.

This volume discusses experimental brain injury models thatcontain valuable information carefully chosen to widen the researchers horizonabout neurotrauma.

This new edition provides updated and novel protocols of neuroproteomics methods that encompass both global-scale as well as targeted and specialized topics, which are timely additions for the molecular and phenotypic analysis of the central nervous system and CNS-related disorders.

This volume covers the latest methods used in clinical neurochemistry laboratories for both clinical practice and research.

The cutting-edge techniques detailed here include those that are particularly popular in multidisciplinary neuroscience research.