Neuroscience category: 1433 books
Fluorescence Microscopy
From Principles to Biological Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A comprehensive introduction to advanced fluorescence microscopy methods and their applications.
This is the first title on the topic designed specifically to allow students and researchers
with little background in physics to understand both microscopy basics and novel light microscopy techniques....
Self-Organization in Electrochemical Systems I
General Principles of Self-organization. Temporal Instabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
This is the first of two volumes offering the very first comprehensive treatise of self-organization and non-linear dynamics in electrochemical systems. The second volume covers spatiotemporal patterns and the control of chaos.
The content of both volumes is organized so that each description ...
by J. Regino Perez-Polo
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 1996
This volume includes paradigms, model systems, and techniques for the study of dysfunctions in the nervous system. The advantages and disadvantages of the approaches presented are critically discussed.
Neural injury
Developmental cell death
Disease processes and aging
by Jeffrey Louis Goldberg, Ephraim F. Trakhtenberg
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Leading authors review state-of-the-art in their field of investigation and provide their views and perspectives for future research. Chapters are extensively referenced to provide readers with a comprehensive list of resources on the topics covered. All chapters include comprehensive background information...
Emerging Horizons in Neuromodulation
New Frontiers in Brain and Spine Stimulation
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
This issue of International Review of Neurobiology brings together cutting-edge research on neuromodulation. It reviews current knowledge and understanding, provides a starting point for researchers and practitioners entering the field, and builds a platform for further research and discovery.
Brings...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
This comprehensive volume is the first to specifically target developing, adult and diseased neural stem cells. It explores recent advances in the understanding of neural stem cell biology along with strategies that use these cells to tackle neurological diseases and brain aging. Ten inclusive chapters...
Dream Consciousness
Allan Hobson’s New Approach to the Brain and Its Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This book presents three lectures by Allan Hobson, entitled “The William James Lectures on Dream Consciousness”. The three lectures expose the new psychology, the new physiology and the new philosophy that derive from and support the protoconsciousness hypothesis of dreaming. They review in detail...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The auditory system has a remarkable ability to adjust to an ever-changing environment. The six review chapters that comprise Plasticity of the Central Auditory System cover a spectrum of issues concerning this ability to adapt, defined by the widely applicable term "plasticity". With chapters...
Cortical Development
Neural Diversity and Neocortical Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This book reviews recent progress in cortical development research, focusing on the mechanisms of neural stem cell regulation, neuronal diversity and connectivity formation, and neocortical organization. Development of the cerebral cortex, the center for higher brain functions such as cognition, memory,...
7 Reasons to Believe in the Afterlife
A Doctor Reviews the Case for Consciousness after Death
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
An uplifting study of the scientific evidence for the afterlife from an experienced anesthesiologist/intensive care physician
• Details meticulously recorded and hospital-verified cases of near-death experiences
• Cites scientific research on NDEs to refute the standard objections...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Following reviews on sleep physiology, regulation, pharmacology, and the neuronal networks regulating sleep and awakening, as well as a classification of sleep disorders, this book presents a number of major breakthroughs in the treatment of those disorders. These include recently approved drugs for...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
Primary sensory neurons respond to peripheral stimulation and project to the spinal cord. Specifically, the population of neurons which respond to damaging stimuli terminate in the superficial layers of the dorsal horn. Therefore, the dorsal horns constitute the first relay site for nociceptive fibre...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
The primary purpose of this book and its companion volume The Behavioral Genetics of Nicotine and Tobacco is to explore the ways in which recent studies on nicotine and its role in tobacco addiction have opened our eyes to the psychopharmacological properties of this unique and fascinating drug. While...
Neuropharmacology of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
The Science Behind the Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Designer drugs, or new psychoactive substances (NPS), are synthetic chemicals that mimic the effects of classic drugs of abuse. There has been an alarming worldwide increase in the abuse of NPS in recent years. NPS are cheap, easy to obtain, and often legally available. In this volume, leading experts...