Human Physiology category: 622 books

This volume of Progress in Brain Research documents research presented at the 26th International Summer School of Brain Research (Amsterdam, Jun/Jul 2010) and looks at how the oscillations that characterize brain activity vary between task performance - the EEG power and performance modulations, rest...

Multiple Choice Questions in Anatomy and Neurobiology for Undergraduates is a collection of multiple choice questions in anatomy and neurobiology for undergraduate students. Questions are grouped for each visceral system and the nervous system. In the case of the body framework (including peripheral...

Kidney Development, Disease, Repair and Regeneration focuses on the molecular and cellular basis of kidney development, exploring the origins of kidney lineages, the development of kidney tissue subcompartments, as well as the genetic and environmental regulation of kidney development. Special coverage...

Ce livre de l'anatomie et la physiologie accompagne les étudiants à comprendre, réviser, explorer et avoir une bonne connaissance générale du corps humain. C'est un bon guide pour tester vos connaissances et vous aider à mieux préparer vos examens ou tout simplement en savoir plus sur votre propre corps.

This innovative textbook provides a readable, contemporary and fully integrated introduction to endocrine glands, their hormones and how their function relates to homeostasis. It explores the pathology of endocrine disease by relating the underpinning science through a wealth of clinical scenarios...

Integrative Anatomy and Pathophysiology in Traditional Chinese Medicine Cardiology covers the structure, function, and pathology of the cardiovascular system from the TCM and western medical perspectives. It focuses specifically on western medicine anatomy and pathophysiology, along with TCM aspects...

Diet and Exercise in Cystic Fibrosis, a unique reference edited by distinguished and internationally recognized nutritionist and immunologist Ronald Ross Watson, fills the gap in the current dietary modalities aimed at controlling cystic fibrosis.  Using expert evaluation on the latest studies of...

Handbook of Fertility: Nutrition, Diet, Lifestyle and Reproductive Health focuses on the ways in which food, dietary supplements, and toxic agents, including alcohol and nicotine affect the reproductive health of both women and men. Researchers in nutrition, diet, epidemiology, and endocrinology...

Advances in Physiological Sciences, Volume 11: Kidney and Body Fluids offers a thorough discussion of the experiments, research, and investigations done on the function, composition, and chemical reactions the kidney and body fluids undergo. Divided into 10 parts and having 88 chapters, the...

Do antidepressants work? Of course-everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually...

Hermaphrodites are probably the most misunderstood people on earth. Often shunned by "straight" and "homosexuals" alike, their life is often a hard path. Ridiculed by society as a whole theirs is not a life they have chosen, but what fate and nature have given them. Hopefully this book will give a better understanding of them.

Les glandes surrénales furent découvertes en 1543 par B. Eustachi, mais leur rôle n'apparut qu'en 1855 lorsque T. Addison décrivit la maladie bronzée et la rattacha à une destruction de ces glandes. C. E. Brown-Séquard (1856) démontra expérimentalement qu'elles étaient indispensables à ...

Seuls constituants du corps des vertébrés qui soient normalement préservés après la mort grâce à leur minéralisation élevée, les tissus du squelette (os, dents, cartilages) ont été longtemps considérés comme formant la charpente inerte de l'organisme. Toute l'évolution de la biologie s'inscrit en...

L'œil est l'organe de la vision (cf.  vision -Neurophysiologie); récepteur des phénomènes lumineux, l'œil les focalise pour projeter l'image sur la rétine qu'il renferme . Celle-ci, à son tour, analyse cette image, commence à la coder et, par l'intermédiaire du nerf optique puis des voies optiques...