These acclaimed volumes provide a firm methodological foundation for the evaluation of neural and behavioral toxicology, and address emerging hypotheses about the actions of pollutants on brain function. In Volume 3 distinguished contributors discuss the difficulties of assessing the effects of pervasive toxins in air and water.

With its companion (v.2, see following entry), addresses the risks to optimal brain function arising from food: its quantity and appropriateness, adulteration, processing, and contamination. The effects of malnutrition and general methods of assessment of toxicological damage are addressed in v.1, i

See preceding entry. The second of the two-volume set contains sections on metal and toxicant toxicity, mechanisms whereby toxins exert their effects, and last, how courts and agencies are involved in the regulation of pollutants, toxins, and risk. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Contributors to this second volume discuss metal and toxicant toxicity, their environmental sources and methods of action, and their regulation by courts and agencies.

The current volumes of The Hippocampus reflect the prodigious amount of work aimed at discovering the functions of this structure over the past decade. The hippocampus ideally lends itself to two types of study: (1) because of its regular and relatively simple cytoarchitecture, it can serve as a model for cortical processing in general, and (2) because of its size and central location, the role of the hippocampus in the total ecology of brain function poses an important challenge. We attempted to divide the contributions to Volumes 3 and 4 according to these two types of experimental aims. As...