Neuroscience category: 1433 books
Zic family
Evolution, Development and Disease
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive overview of ZIC-family research. Part1 summarizes the ZIC family in animal evolution and development and presents an overall picture of the ZIC family gene structure in eumetazoan animals, providing an evolutionary hypothesis and reviewing the studies on the role...
Brain Lipids in Synaptic Function and Neurological Disease
Clues to Innovative Therapeutic Strategies for Brain Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Lipids are the most abundant organic compounds found in the brain, accounting for up to 50% of its dry weight. The brain lipidome includes several thousands of distinct biochemical structures whose expression may greatly vary according to age, gender, brain region, cell type, as well as subcellular...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The first comprehensive overview of the effects of hypertension on the brain. The book discusses not only the relationship between hypertension and stroke, but also the much less studied relationship between hypertension and cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's....
by Andrzej T. Slominski, Michal A. Zmijewski, Cezary Skobowiat
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
The skin, the body’s largest organ, is strategically located at the interface with the external environment where it detects, integrates and responds to a diverse range of stressors, including solar radiation. It has already been established that the skin is an important peripheral neuroendocrine-immune...
The Traumatized Brain
A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior after Brain Injury
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
A traumatic brain injury is a life-changing event, affecting an individual’s lifestyle, ability to work, relationships—even personality. Whatever caused it—car crash, work accident, sports injury, domestic violence, combat—a severe blow to the head results in acute and, often, lasting symptoms....
From Neurology to Methodology and Back
An Introduction to Clinical Neuroengineering
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
In today’s hospitals, the gap between technology and medicine constantly needs to be bridged, both by physicians and engineers. By taking a unique clinical neuroengineering approach, From Neurology to Methodology and Back offers a translational study of neurology and technology from both sides....
Cerebral Blood Flow, Metabolism, and Head Trauma
The Pathotrajectory of Traumatic Brain Injury
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Written to satisfy a wide audience, from basic scientist to clinical researcher, this volume explores such varied concepts as: the influence of CBF in the pathotrajectory of TBI, modeling TBI as a means to understand underlying pathological states associated with brain injury victims, disrupted vasculature...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
A fundamental change is occurring in the understanding of the major neurodegenerative disorders. Protein aggregation is a common emerging theme in diseases as diverse as Alzheimer's, Creutzfeld-Jakob, Parkinson's, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. If valid, then a small number of diagnostic and rational...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
This book offers the most up-to-date information about research surrounding the neurobiology of bipolar disorder as well as currently available and novel therapeutic options. The volume has assembled a widely respected group of preclinical and clinical researchers who bring their expertise to bear...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Stress is such an over-used word that it is at time difficult to define its core features. When is an environment stressful? What does a stressful environment do to the brain and to the body? What are the biological mechanisms by which a stressor affects us? How does stress contributes to the onset...
Multiple Origins of Sex Differences in Brain
Neuroendocrine Functions and their Pathologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
In theoretical terms, sex differences in brains and behaviors of laboratory animals offer the possibility of fascinating scientific studies on a range of molecular phenomena such as genomic imprinting, DNA methylation, chromatin protein modification, non-coding DNA, potentially resulting in important...
The Accidental Mind
How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Linden sets the record straight about the construction of the human brain; rather than the “beautifully-engineered optimized device, the absolute pinnacle of design” portrayed in many dumbed-down text books, pop-science tomes, and education televisions programs, Linden’s organ is a complicated...
I of the Vortex
From Neurons to Self
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
A highly original theory of how the mind-brain works, based on the author's study of single neuronal cells.
In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the "mindness state"...
Your Brain and You
A Simple Guide to Neuropsychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Most general knowledge about the brain and its workings is very dated, drawing on studies from the first part of the previous century or even earlier. However, the advent of brain scanning which allows the study of the ordinary working brain, rather than just dead ones or people having brain surgery,...