Neurosciences

Although many things can go wrong in the brain, this book also shows that our brain is strong.

This book covers recent advances in all aspects of bone marrow-derived stem cells (BMSCs) for stroke treatment, while also providing comprehensive information on human clinical trials and animal models of stroke.

This book highlights a broad range of issues on mental health and illness in large cities.

This book reviews cutting-edge developments in neural signalling processing (NSP), systematically introducing readers to various models and methods in the context of NSP.

This unifying theme of this book-with sections on mechanisms of defense and neuropathogenesis, neurological diseases, infections of the nervous system, neuropharmacology, and novel therapies-is interactions of the immune and nervous systems.

This book provides the reader with a range of questions and explanations related to essential aspects of the neural, hormonal and gastrointestinal physiology.

This superb color atlas sets a new standard in neuroanatomy by presenting around 300 detailed thin-sectioned images of the human head, including the brain, with 0.

This atlas is currently the most systematic and comprehensive atlas of the tree shrew brain.

Despite a plethora of scientific literature devoted to vision research and the trend toward integrative research, the borders between disciplines remain a practical difficulty.

The prefrontal cortex is known to play important roles for performing a variety of higher cognitive functions.

The number of people living with dementia is expected to rise from 55 million in 2019 to 139 million in 2050, according to a report by WHO.

Esta obra es un aporte a la ensenanza de la neurociencia.

Las neuronas presentan caracteristicas especiales en su morfologia.

"Se trata de una revisión teórica que aborda los conceptos básicos sobre los mecanismos neurobiológicos y neuropatológicos de la percepción visual en la que se indaga sobre los conceptos generales de la percepción, la diferenciación con la sensación, los modelos y leyes teóricas que surgieron durante el transcurso de la historia que nos condujeron al concepto actual de percepción visual, el desarrollo desde el nacimiento, las particularidades de los procesos neuro anatomofisiológicos, el papel de la plasticidad en éste proceso, las diferencias en el reconocimiento de objetos versus caras,las alteraciones de la percepción visual.

Estamos convencidos que todos los seres humanos son seres creativos y todos sin excepción tienen la posibilidad de trabajar en el desarrollo de su pensamiento creativo.

El Centro Interdisciplinario de Neurociencia de Valparaíso puede estar tranquilo y, más aún, satisfecho.

La verdadera historia de cómo nuestro cerebro y nuestro sistema nervioso cambian a lo largo de nuestra vida, con o sin "entrenamiento cerebral".

Todos queremos ser más eficientes en el caos del multitasking, tener excelente memoria, tomar buenas decisiones ante los problemas y trabajar mejor en equipo.

"El arte no es lo que uno ve, sino lo que uno hace ver a los demás" (Edgar Degas).

Scholarpedia's Encyclopedia of Touch provides a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed articles written by leading researchers, detailing our current scientific understanding of tactile sensing and its neural substrates in animals including humans.

The work outlines a novel conceptual and theoretical framework for understanding Artificial General Intelligence and based on this framework outlines a practical roadmap for the development of AGI with capability at the human level and ultimately beyond.

Osteomyelitis and Discitis of the Spine: A Guide for the Management of Infectious Etiology of the Vertebral Column and Neurological Components examines these spinal conditions and provides readers with the most appropriate management plans, including surgical treatment together with its indications.

This book introduces important, new knowledge regarding formaldehyde, especially endogenous formaldehyde, revealing its many key roles in the human body.

This book discusses the latest findings on the physiological and pathological functions of transient receptor potential canonical/classical (TRPC) proteins in the brain.

This book is focused on the examination of the particular relationship between developments in neuroscience and commonsense concepts, such as free will, personal identity, privacy, etc.

This book offers an introduction to the fundamentals of neurosociology and presents the newest issues and findings in the field.

This work explores the power of visual and vocal channels, in conveying emotional cues exploiting realistic, dynamic and mutually related emotional vocal and facial stimuli, and aims to report on a cross cultural comparison on how people from different Western Countries perceive emotional dynamic stimuli.

This book seeks to unravel the mysteries of wolfberry, and systematically introduces its mechanisms in preventing aging-associated diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, inflammation, liver and neurodegenerative diseases.

This book discusses geometric and mathematical models that can be used to study fluid and structural mechanics in the cardiovascular system.

This volume is the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics (ICCN2013) held in Sweden in 2013.

This book examines information processing performed by bio-systems at all scales: from genomes, cells and proteins to cognitive and even social systems.

The way you perceive the world, plan, make decisions and communicate your thoughts and feelings depends on the function and hierarchical arrangement of cortical modules.

This book addresses the methodological issues involved in responsible innovation and provides an overview of recent applications of multidisciplinary research.

This book is dedicated to Dr.

This volume of essays examines the problem of mind, looking at how the problem has appeared to neuroscientists (in the widest sense) from classical antiquity through to contemporary times.

This book explores both the possibilities and limits of arguments from human nature in the context of human rights.

The objective of this volume is to showcase the contemporary state of research on recognizing and evaluating the performance of stone age weapons from a variety of viewpoints, including investigating their cognitive and evolutionary significance.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the latest advances in translational pain and itch research, and presents the cutting-edge developments in the study of our two principal, yet most mysteries sensations.

This volume examines trajectories of drug use among ethnic minority youth in the United States with a focus on African Americans and Hispanics.

This volume focuses on modern computational and statistical tools for translational gene expression and regulation research to improve prognosis, diagnostics, prediction of severity, and therapies for human diseases.

This book provides an overview of neural information processing research, which is one of the most important branches of neuroscience today.

This book brings together the relevant interdisciplinary and method elements needed to form a conceptual framework that is both pragmatic and rigorous.

For 'Recent Progress in Brain and Cognitive Engineering'Brain and Cognitive Engineering is a converging study field to derive a better understanding of cognitive information processing in the human brain, to develop "e;human-like"e; and neuromorphic artificial intelligent systems and to help predict and analyze brain-related diseases.

This fourteenth volume of the series provides comprehensive, current information on the diagnosis, therapy and prognosis of brain tumors and spinal tumors.

Phosphatases, such as TNAP are fundamental in regulating the roles of cellular, and consequently numerous body functions.

The elasmobranch fishes include the living sharks, skates and rays that are important members of nearly all marine ecosystems.

Following systematic development of technical aspects and physiological understanding, and clinical applicability of cardiac autonomic testing, this book provides a detailed guide to performing individual autonomic tests in both research and clinical settings.

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a distinctive abnormality of small cerebral blood vessels, one that has intrigued neuroscientists for decades.