Neuroscience category: 1433 books
Clinical Neuroembryology
Development and Developmental Disorders of the Human Central Nervous System
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the human central nervous system (CNS) in the context of its many developmental disorders due to genetic, environmental, and hypoxic/ischemic causes. The introductory chapters give an overview of the development of the human brain and...
New Frontiers in Respiratory Control
XIth Annual Oxford Conference on Modeling and Control of Breathing
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Breathing is performed by the rhythmic contraction of respiratory muscles. It ma- tains homeostasis of the organism by taking in the oxygen necessary to live and work and by controlling the level of CO within the organism. At first glance, breathing 2 seems simple; however, it is produced by a complex...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Numerous improvements in our understanding of the mechanisms that underlie neuropathic pain states have come from the development of animal models, most of which involve partial peripheral nerve injury. The animal models have shown that nerve injury initiates a cascade of events resulting in altered...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
The tracheobronchial tree is open to the environment surrounding the body. Respiration has thus the essential bearing on general morbidity, vulnerability to disease and immunity. Further, respiratory function shapes the neuropsychological responses to succumbing to disease, controls the mind-to-body...
Laterality in Sports
Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Laterality in Sports: Theories and Applications summarizes recent research on the neurophysiological foundations of handedness, and how left or right lateralization (affecting primary hand use, foot use, and eye use) affects motor control, performance outcome, skill acquisition, and achievement of...
by Joseph E. LeDoux, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
This volume presents cutting-edge theory and research on emotions as constructed events rather than fixed, essential entities. It provides a thorough introduction to the assumptions, hypotheses, and scientific methods that embody psychological constructionist approaches. Leading scholars examine the...
Relationships Between Perception and Action
Current Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is the fruit of a study group on perception and action that worked at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiP) of the University of Bielefeld, FRG in the academic year 1984-1985. We express our gratitude to the ZiF for hosting the group and for providing fmancial and organizational...
The Ghost in My Brain
How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get it Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas
In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight his life changed from that of a rising professor with a research career in artificial intelligence...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
The proposed book will act as a guide for scientists and clinicians to the unique information that MRS can provide. It will be a comprehensive overview of clinical and pre-clinical MRS applications and potential clinical utility of MRS biomarkers in degenerative brain diseases from leading experts...
Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia
Vol. IV Balance of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book comprises the conferences and discussions presented at the 4th sym posium on the SEARCH FOR THE CAUSES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA, which took place in Guaruja, Brazil, November 1998. This series of symposia started in 1986, on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the University of Heidelberg,...
Eye and Brain
The Psychology of Seeing - Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. Richard Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the phenomena...
Prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder FASD
Who is responsible?
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Exposing a developing embryo or fetus to alcohol can produce life long brain damage with neurological, cognitive and behavioural consequences. The implications of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder for the affected individual and the family are devastating. The social and economic burden to society is...
by Jane Baker Conner
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Do your legs tremble when you stand in place? Do you find yourself needing to sit down, so you wont fall? Then you have as many questions as I do. What is wrong with me? How do I cope with this? Is there medicine to help? What about physical therapy? What is this new brain surgery known as deep brain...
by Andreas Reichenbach, Andreas Bringmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Müller cells may be used in the future for novel therapeutic strategies to protect neurons against apoptosis (for example, somatic gene therapy), or to differentiate retinal neurons from Müller/stem cells. Meanwhile, a proper understanding of the gliotic responses of Müller cells in the diseased...