Physiology

Decision Neuroscience addresses fundamental questions about how the brain makes perceptual, value-based, and more complex decisions in non-social and social contexts.

Bring the Quiz Time fun to family game nights and classroom learning with over 400 trivia questions about the human body!

More than 100 years ago, Dr Casimir Funk suggested the existence of a family of organic substances that are essential for life and thus introduced the concept of "e;vital amines"e; as essential nutrients with a specific action, requiring only minute amount with the power to cure a specific disease.

¿Sabías que Neptuno es el planeta más ventoso del sistema solar?

This edited volume records the critical historical developments in thermal physiology and makes them accessible to new and senior thermal biologists and scientists in related fields.

Cuerpo y saber está compuesto por tres capítulos que reflexionan sobre el objeto de estudio de la psicomotricidad.

This is a self-contained monograph on human voice.

Physiology or medicine was the third prize area Alfred Nobel mentioned in his will.

This book discusses the application of the concepts of fractals and chaos to biomedical phenomena.

Advanced techniques of statistical inference are proposed for applications in human biology research.

Visual cognition is an important area of biocybernetics.

Recent advances in auditory neuroscience are characterized by a close interaction between neurophysiological findings, psychophysical effects and integrative models that attempt to bridge the gap between neuroscience and psychophysics.

Biofluid mechanics is the study of a certain class of biological problems from a fluid mechanics point of view.

The book presents a new scientific approach to the problem of biomechanical systems description.

This book explains how the car, as a structure, behaves in various types of accidents.

This volume is a compilation of recent research work on the problem of osteoporosis in Asia.

Aluminium is the most abundant metal ion in the biosphere and we are continuously exposed to it in our everyday life through food, beverages, pharmaceutical products, etc.

This volume takes its subtitle from the theme of the ASHB meeting for 1995 "e;Humans in the Australasian Region"e;.

Half a billion years of evolution have turned the eye into an unbelievable pattern detector.

This is a user-friendly monograph designed for medical students as well as graduate students and postdoctoral trainees in medicine and other health-related sciences who need a comprehensive overview of thermoregulation.

This book provides a most complete overview of physiological and psychophysical properties of perceptual systems in man and animals.

The articles in this volume are the results of discussions among biophysicists, neurobiologists and mathematicians with research interests in auditory mechanics and signal processing.

The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) is a special growth factor for the induction of new bone formation.

"e;The common perception of Alzheimer's from people who haven't experienced it is that it's more like a 'quirk' which all elderly people experience at some point.

Recent advances in vascular biology and vascular engineering have led to the understanding and integration of the two fields.

This volume deals with scattering theory, applied mathematics, modeling and biomedical engineering.

Ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent proteolysis is central to an incredible multitude of processes in all eukaryotes, including the cell cycle, cell growth and differentiation, embryogenesis, apoptosis, signal transduction, DNA repair, regulation of transcription and DNA replication, transmembrane transport, endocytosis, stress responses, antigen presentation and other aspects of the immune response, the functions of the nervous system including circadian rhythms, axon guidance and acquisition of memory.

What are bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) and how can they be used in orthopaedic practice?

This book aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas between otosurgeons and engineers on common topics such as middle ear function, tympanoplasty, implantable hearing devices and ear prostheses.

This is a landmark book that has been written for shoulder surgeons all over the world.

The aims of the International Conference on Physics Education in Cultural Contexts were to explore ways towards convergent and divergent physics learning beyond school boundaries, improve physics education through the use of traditional and modern cultural contexts, and exchange research and experience in physics education between different cultures.

This book is essential reading for those interested in understanding current trends of research in the area of biomechanics at micro- and nanoscale levels.

This book focuses on a prototype of creative causal processes termed BIOS and how the concept can be applied to the physical world, in medicine and in social science.

This important book presents review articles on the cell biology of photoreceptor and RPE cells, as well as the relationship between this cell biology and inherited photoreceptor degeneration.

This volume consists of the papers presented at the 6th International Workshop on Scattering Theory and Biomedical Engineering.

This book covers a wide spectrum of areas related to basic bone research.

This book describes how the analysis of the trace gases in exhaled breath can be used for non-invasive clinical diagnosis of disease and for monitoring the effectiveness of therapy.

Neurons in the brain communicate with each other by transmitting sequences of electrical spikes or action potentials.

This comprehensive volume is a graduate-level text in human biodynamics, written in the unified categorical language of modern differential geometry and topology.

A laboratory manual for high schools, colleges, and universities, this book contains more than 80 experiments and lecture demonstrations.

This volume comprises the papers presented at the Seventh International Workshop on Scattering Theory and Biomedical Engineering, focusing on the hottest topics in scattering theory and biomedical technology.

Because of rapid developments in computer technology and computational techniques, advances in a wide spectrum of technologies, coupled with cross-disciplinary pursuits between technology and its application to human body processes, the field of biomechanics continues to evolve.

Because of rapid developments in computer technology and computational techniques, advances in a wide spectrum of technologies, coupled with cross-disciplinary pursuits between technology and its application to human body processes, the field of biomechanics continues to evolve.

Because of rapid developments in computer technology and computational techniques, advances in a wide spectrum of technologies, coupled with cross-disciplinary pursuits between technology and its application to human body processes, the field of biomechanics continues to evolve.

Because of rapid developments in computer technology and computational techniques, advances in a wide spectrum of technologies, coupled with cross-disciplinary pursuits between technology and its application to human body processes, the field of biomechanics continues to evolve.

A project on "e;Biomechanics at Micro- and Nanoscale Levels"e;, the title of this book, was approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2003; and this four-year project is now being carried out by fourteen prominent Japanese researchers.

The completion of the human genome and technological advances developed by the Human Genome Project have dramatically changed our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the development and differentiation of male germ cells, and our ability to investigate such mechanisms.

This book serves as a treasure for all those who have an interest in nuclear receptor coregulators and human diseases.

This is a fascinating and popular account of the very large and the very small, from the universe as a whole to subatomic physics.

A project on "e;Biomechanics at Micro- and Nanoscale Levels"e;, the title of this book, was approved by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan in 2003.