Neuroscience list 68

Progress in Motor Control

Neural, Computational and Dynamic Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

This volume is the most recent installment of the Progress in Motor Control series. It contains contributions based on presentations by invited speakers at the Progress in Motor Control VIII meeting held in Cincinnati, OH, USA in July, 2011. Progress in Motor Control is the official scientific meeting...

The Anatomy of Manual Dexterity

The New Connectivity of the Primate Sensorimotor Thalamus and Cerebral Cortex

by Ian Darian-Smith, Mary P. Galea, Corinna Darian-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

1 Purpose and Plan of This Review This review is focused on the topography and connections of some of the neuron populations that determine the manual dexterity of the macaque monkey. The populations selected for examination are the following: 1. The corticospinal neuron populations 2. The thalamocortical...

Texture of the Nervous System of Man and the Vertebrates

Volume I

by Santiago R.y Cajal
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

This book, together with the next two volumes to follow, offers the scientific community the works and thoughts of Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The text is a faithful rendition of the original Spanish version, with additional facts taken from the French translation. Both of these are currently quoted...

Microstructural Parcellation of the Human Cerebral Cortex

From Brodmann's Post-Mortem Map to in Vivo Mapping with High-Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

Unraveling the functional properties of structural elements in the brain is one of the fundamental goals of neuroscientific research. In the cerebral cortex this is no mean feat, since cortical areas are defined microstructurally in post-mortem brains but functionally in living brains with electrophysiological...

The Judgement of the Eye

The Metamorphoses of Geometry - One of the Sources of Visual Perception and Consciousness

by Jürgen Weber
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The author, Jürgen Weber, brings together the results of various disciplines and his own research and experience as a sculptor and painter and stitches together an exciting new theory of perception of form. In doing so, Weber - who also has a scientific background - explores the fascinating question...

The Neurobiology of Australian Marsupials

Brain Evolution in the Other Mammalian Radiation

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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010

Australian marsupials represent a parallel adaptive radiation to that seen among placental mammals. This great natural experiment has produced a striking array of mammals with structural and behavioural features echoing those seen among primates, rodents, carnivores, edentates and ungulates elsewhere...

Mechanisms of Circadian Systems in Animals and Their Clinical Relevance

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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2014

Well known experts in the field of Chronobiology from around the world, provide an integrative view of the state of the art of circadian biology. At present, genetic and epigenetic interaction of regulatory pathways among circadian oscillators, metabolic networks, cellular differentiation and neuronal...

Adipose Tissue Biology

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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017

The past decade has seen an exponential increase in our knowledge and understanding of adipose tissue biology. This has coincided with the continued rise in obesity across all generations. Clearly despite substantial advances in research into adipose tissue this still has had limited impact on the...

Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity

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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010

This volume will explore the most recent findings on cellular mechanisms of inhibitory plasticity and its functional role in shaping neuronal circuits, their rewiring in response to experience, drug addiction and in neuropathology. Inhibitory Synaptic Plasticity will be of particular interest to neuroscientists and neurophysiologists.

The Middle Ear

Science, Otosurgery, and Technology

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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013

The middle ear plays a vital role in the sense and sensitivity of hearing. Of the various characteristics that distinguish mammals from other vertebrates, several pertain specifically to the middle-ear system, such as the presence of three middle-ear bones and the four-layer composite structure of...

TRP Channels in Sensory Transduction

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Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015

TRP channels play a key role in sensory physiology and have been the focus of intensive investigation in recent years. The proposed book will be a comprehensive, detailed overview of the ways in which TRP channels are involved in a wide variety of sensory modalities. Authors will explore the...

Metabolic Syndrome and Neurological Disorders

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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

Metabolic Syndrome and Neurological Disorders brings together information on the cluster of common pathologies which cause metabolic syndrome - abdominal obesity linked to an excess of visceral fat, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia and hypertension - to provide a comprehensive and cutting edge exploration...

Central Functions of the Ghrelin Receptor

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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

The Ghrelin receptor was identified before its natural ligand ghrelin. This receptor is found both centrally and peripherally, and has been shown to affect various processes, such as food intake, gut motility, memory, glucose and lipid metabolism, cardiovascular performances, reproduction, memory,...

Phosphodiesterases: CNS Functions and Diseases

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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017

PDEs are a family of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of intracellular cyclic nucleotides. They are implicated in a number of disorders and dysfunctions and PDE inhibitors have already proven to be effective therapies for erectile dysfunction, COPD, and psoriatic arthritis. This family of enzymes...