Life sciences: general issues

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).

Bioinformatics offers novel tools and resources to analyze plant genomes and genes.

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

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

Methods in Stream Ecology, Second Edition, provides a complete series of field and laboratory protocols in stream ecology that are ideal for teaching or conducting research.

This book describes the underlying water conditions and geologies that support viable riparia, illustrates the ecological characteristics of riparia, and discusses how riparia are used by human cultures as well as how riparia can be used to sustain environmental quality.

Embodied theories claim that semantic representations are grounded in sensorimotor systems, but the contribution of sensorimotor brain areas in representing meaning is still controversial.

In the last few decades, scientists have discovered that far from being a time of neural silence, sleep is characterized by complex patterns of electrical, neurochemical, and metabolic activity in the brain.

The Mouse Nervous System provides a comprehensive account of the central nervous system of the mouse.

The Auditory System in Sleep presents for the first time a view of a sensory system working in a different state-that of the sleeping brain.

A derivative of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Biogeochemistry of Inland Waters examines the transformation, flux and cycling of chemical compounds in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, combining aspects of biology, ecology, geology, and chemistry.

This third edition, now fully revised and updated by two of Dr.

This edited volume in the Theoretical Ecology series addresses the historical development and evolution of theoretical ideas in the field of ecology.

This fully revised second edition provides the only unified synthesis of available information concerning the mechanisms of higher-order memory formation.

Recent advances in the scientific understanding of the human mind and brain along with the emphases on evidence-based practice and competency-based education are creating increasing pressures to update some of the traditional approaches to structuring and organizing education and practice in the field.

Unlike anything currently available in the market, Dr.

New viral diseases are emerging continuously.

The book is a history of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience and an assessment of its effectiveness in advancing neuroscience.

Berta and Sumich have succeeded yet again in creating superior marine reading!

Systems Biology is concerned with the quantitative study of complex biosystems at the molecular, cellular, tissue, and systems scales.

Tropical Stream Ecology describes the main features of tropical streams and their ecology.

Bones and Cartilage provides the most in-depth review ever assembled on the topic.

Plant Systematics, Second Edition, provides the basis for teaching an introduction to the morphology, evolution, and classification of land plants.

This Series provides a comprehensive survey of the major topics in the field of developmental biology.

The preceding editions made The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates the second most cited book in science.

This book provides an overview of computational analysis of genes and genomes, and of some most notable findings that come out of this work.

Genes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal's behavior.

Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science provides a compact and comprehensive introduction to modern ecosystem science.

This manual is an indispensable tool for introducing advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students to the techniques of recombinant DNA technology, or gene cloning and expression.

This is a uniquely comprehensive reference that summarizes the state of the art of signal processing theory and techniques for solving emerging problems in neuroscience, and which clearly presents new theory, algorithms, software and hardware tools that are specifically tailored to the nature of the neurobiological environment.

Bayesian statistics has exploded into biology and its sub-disciplines, such as ecology, over the past decade.

Basic Neurochemistry, Eighth Edition, is the updated version of the outstanding and comprehensive classic text on neurochemistry.

Interest in the study of peripheral nerve repair and regeneration has increased significantly over the last twenty years and today the number of nerve reconstructions performed is progressively increasing due to the continuous improvement in surgical technology and to the spread of microsurgical skills among surgeons worldwide.

Structural Biology Using Electrons and X-Rays discusses the diffraction and image-based methods used for the determination of complex biological macromolecules.

Never before has it been so critical for lab workers to possess the proper tools and methodologies necessary to determine the structure, function, and expression of the corresponding proteins encoded in the genome.

Neurobiology of Disease is aimed at any basic scientist or clinician scientist teaching a course or conducting research on the basic science underlying the major neurological diseases.

The genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms of neural development are essential for understanding evolution and disorders of neural systems.

Protein Transcription is a key element of cellular and organ regulation.

This is the first and only book, so far, to deal with the causal basis of evolution from an epigenetic view.

Oceans and Human Health highlights an unprecedented collaboration of environmental scientists, ecologists and physicians working together on this important new discipline, to the benefit of human health and ocean environmental integrity alike.

The authors of the most cited neuroscience publication, The Rat Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, have written this introductory textbook for neuroscience students.

This volume provides a broad overview of important new advances in the field of Neuropharmacology.

The study of neurofeedback and neuromodulation offer a window into brain physiology and function, suggesting innovative approaches to the improvement of attention, anxiety, pain, mood and behavior.

Molecular biology operates at three levels - genes, proteins and metabolites.

The treetops of the world's forests are where discovery and opportunity abound, however they have been relatively inaccessible until recently.

Due to its prolific reproduction and the external development of the transparent embryo, the zebrafish is the prime model for genetic and developmental studies, as well as research in genomics.

A derivative of the Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, Lake Ecosystem Ecology examines the workings of the lake and reservoir ecosystems of our planet.

DNA typing has revolutionized criminal investigations and has become a powerful tool in the identification of individuals in criminal and paternity cases.

Pio del Rio-Hortega, one of the pioneering neuroscientists and discoverer of microglia, has been recognized as one of the most important Spanish neurohistogists of the past century.

The exponential explosion of images and videos concerns everybody's common life, since this media is now present everywhere and in all human activities.