This volume is an up-to-date report on progress in the understanding of brain edema, with a spectrum reaching from most recent molecularbiological findings to respective clinical developments. Major topics deal with (a) the blood-parenchymal cell border under normal and pathological conditions causing brain edema, (b) neuron-glial interactions and their disturbances in tissue damage, (c) formation, propagation and resolution of brain edema, and finally (d) treatment of vasogenic and cytotoxic brain edema. In the basic science approaches emphasis is given to newly discovered molecules, such as...