Neuroscience category: 1433 books
Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Clinical Care for Children and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Increasingly more and more children with developmental disabilities survive into adulthood. Pediatricians and other clinicians are called upon to care for an increasing number of children with developmental disabilities in their practice and thus there is a need for a practical guide specifically...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The study of neurotransmitters in the human brain has expanded spectacularly in recent years with the application of techniques from immunology and molecular biology. These techniques are now being used successfully to help decipher the chemical architecture of the human nervous system. The results...
Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia
Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume presents the contributions to the third symposium on the "Search for the Causes of Schizophrenia". The first symposium was organized by the Central Institute of Mental Health on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of the University of Heidelberg in 1986. Its objective was to...
Neurotropic Viral Infections
Volume 2: Neurotropic Retroviruses, DNA Viruses, Immunity and Transmission
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This second edition is a comprehensive study of the viruses that affect the brain and the central nervous system. Along with a focus on the viruses themselves, it addresses the diseases they cause, current treatments and preventive measures. Also discussed are the unique aspects of how viruses cause...
by Peter Halasz, Anna Szucs
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Translational research connects science and clinical medicine from "the bench to the bedside." In Sleep, Epilepsies and Cognitive Impairment, the authors look back from the bedside to the brain function underlying clinical symptoms and reveal mechanisms explored by contemporary neuroimaging...
Aspects of Neuroendocrinology
V. International Symposium on Neurosecretion
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The objective of this book is to concisely present information with respect to appropriate use of experimental rodents in research. The principles elaborated seek to provide knowledge of the techniques involved in both management and scientific research to all who use laboratory animals, with...
Myelinated Fibers and Saltatory Conduction in the Shrimp
The Fastest Impulse Conduction in the Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2013
In 1961, neurobiologists found that the conduction velocity of the nerve impulse in the giant nerve fiber of the Penaeus shrimp abdominal nerve cord was over 200 m/s, the highest speed of information transmission ever observed in the animal kingdom. The peculiar myelin sheath with its unique nodal...
by Kewal K. Jain
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Culling together excerpts from a wide range of writings by Dr. Kewal K. Jain on biotechnology topics as they relate to disorders of the nervous system, Applications of Biotechnology in Neurology covers a variety of applications for those working in life sciences and the pharmaceutical sciences, particularly...
Are We Unique
A Scientist Explores the Unparalleled Intelligence of the Human Mind
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1998
In this fascinating book on an exciting and timely topic, James Trefil explores just exactly what it is that is so special about the human mind that sets us so far from all the other animals and that also makes it impossible to design a computer that coul
Fluorescence Microscopy
From Principles to Biological Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
While there are many publications on the topic written by experts for experts, this text is specifically designed to allow advanced students and researchers with no background in physics to comprehend novel fluorescence microscopy techniques.
This second edition features new chapters and a subsequent...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Environmental Experience and Plasticity of the Developing Brain goes beyond the genetic basis of neurodevelopment. Chapters illuminate the external factors that can dramatically impact the brain early in life and, consequently, the eventual accomplishment of developmental milestones and the construction...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2011
Damage to the central nervous system resulting from pathological mechanical loading can occur as a result of trauma or disease. Such injuries lead to significant disability and mortality. The peripheral nervous system, while also subject to injury from trauma and disease, also transduces physiological...
by Akhlaq A. Farooqui, Tahira Farooqui
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Diet and exercise have long been recognized as important components of a healthy lifestyle, as they have a great impact on improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular functions, lowering the risk of metabolic disorders, and contributing to healthy aging. As a greater proportion of the world’s population...