Neuroscience category: 1433 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Our understanding of human color vision has advanced tremendously in recent years, helped along by many new discoveries, ideas, and achievements. It is therefore timely that these new developments are brought together in a book, assembled specifically to include new research and insight from the leaders...
Cognitive Electrophysiology of Attention
Signals of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2013
Cognitive Electrophysiology of Attention explores the fundamental mechanisms of attention and related cognitive functions from cognitive neuroscience perspectives. Attention is an essential cognitive ability that enables humans to process and act upon relevant information while ignoring distracting...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
The second edition of Neuroimmune Pharmacology bridges the disciplines of neuroscience, immunology and pharmacology from the molecular to clinical levels with particular thought made to engage new research directives and clinical modalities.
Bringing together the foremost field authorities...
The Physics of the Mind and Brain Disorders
Integrated Neural Circuits Supporting the Emergence of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book covers recent advances in the understanding of brain structure, function and disorders based on the fundamental principles of physics. It covers a broad range of physical phenomena occurring in the brain circuits for perception, cognition, emotion and action, representing the building...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
The book is part of a series on Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, which has as its focus anxiety and its treatment. We have brought together a distinguished cadre of authors with the aim of covering a broad array of topics related to anxiety disorders, ranging from clinical diagnosis, epidemiology,...
Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus
Health, Psychopathology, and Brain Disease
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Neurogenesis in the adult brain has emerged as one of the most dynamic and rapidly moving fields in modern neuroscience research. The implications of adult neurogenesis for health and well-being are wide-ranging, with findings in this area having distinct relevance for treatment and rehabilitation...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The study of how the brain processes temporal information is becoming one of the most important topics in systems, cellular, computational, and cognitive neuroscience, as well as in the physiological bases of music and language. During the last and current decade, interval timing has been intensively...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Tinnitus is a prevalent hearing disease, affecting 15% of the population, particularly hearing impaired, veterans and even young people who grow up with mp3 players and iPods. The mechanisms underlying tinnitus remain controversial. At present there is no cure for tinnitus, and treatment options are...
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Pathology, Mechanisms, and Potential Therapeutic Targets
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Provides a timely overview of critical advances in molecular and cellular neurobiology, covers key methodologies driving progress, and highlights key future directions for research on neuronal injury and neurodegeneration relevant to neuronal brain pathologies. The editors bring together contributions...
Tracing Autism
Uncertainty, Ambiguity, and the Affective Labor of Neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
In Tracing Autism, Des Fitzgerald offers an up-close account of the search for a neurological explanation of autism. As autism has gained cultural prominence with more diagnoses and more controversy, its biological causes remain elusive.
Through in-depth interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists,...
The Choroid Plexus and Cerebrospinal Fluid
Emerging Roles in CNS Development, Maintenance, and Disease Progression
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The Choroid Plexus and Cerebrospinal Fluid: Emerging Roles in CNS Development, Maintenance, and Disease Progression combines new and established work to allow for cross-disciplinary discussion and showcase newfound excitement surrounding the choroid plexus and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). This book...
Hormone/Behavior Relations of Clinical Importance
Endocrine Systems Interacting with Brain and Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
A single volume of 41 articles, Hormone/Behavior Relations of Clinical Importance is an authoritative selection of relevant chapters from the Hormones Brain and Behavior 2e MRW, the most comprehensive source of neuroendocrinological information assembled to date (AP July 2009).
The study of...
by Richard L. Doty
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
The largest collection of basic, clinical, and applied knowledge on the chemical senses ever compiled in one volume, the third edition of Handbook of Olfaction and Gustation encompass recent developments in all fields of chemosensory science, particularly the most recent advances in neurobiology,...
The Glutamate/GABA-Glutamine Cycle
Amino Acid Neurotransmitter Homeostasis
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Fundamental biochemical studies of basic brain metabolism focusing on the neuroactive amino acids glutamate and GABA combined with the seminal observation that one of the key enzymes, glutamine synthetase is localized in astroglial cells but not in neurons resulted in the formulation of the term “The...