Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Neuroscience

This volume brings together noted scientists who study presbycusis from the perspective of complementary disciplines, for a review of the current state of knowledge on the aging auditory system. Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is one of the top three most common chronic health conditions affecting individuals aged 65 years and older. The high prevalence of age-related hearing loss compels audiologists, otolaryngologists, and auditory neuroscientists alike to understand the neural, genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying this disorder. A comprehensive understanding of these factors is...

Nanoneuroscience is the study of computationally relevant biomolecules found inside neurons. Because of recent technological advances at the nanometer scale, scientists have at their disposal increasingly better ways to study the brain and the biophysics of its molecules. This book describes how biomolecules contribute to the operations of synapses and perform other computationally relevant functions inside dendrites. These biomolecular operations considerably expand the brain-computer analogy - endowing each neuron with the processing power of a silicon-based multiprocessor. Amazingly,...

This volume discusses every aspect of ADD from initial evaluation to treatment. It stresses its relationship to brain behavior, presents a battery of tests for properly diagnosing ADD, and proposes practical treatment solutions. Written by an expert in the field who is the mother of an ADD child, it provides a unique perspective on this complex disorder. The book emphasizes a "whole" treatment approach, including clinical, psychological and neurological methods as well as brain retraining, nutritional strategies and the development of coping mechanisms. It is anessential text for...

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview on neural coding. It describes the principles of neural coding, covers some of the major developments in this area, and presents a complete view of how neurons in the brain encode information. The text not only contains the most important experimental findings, but also gives an overview of the main methodological aspects for studying neural coding. In addition, the book describes alternative approaches based on simulations with neural networks and in silico modeling.

The fascinating and rapidly growing field of biological psychology also widely known as biopsychology, behavioural neuroscience, or psychobiology is concerned with the relationship between brain and behaviour. Broadly speaking, biological psychologists seek to understand dizzyingly difficult questions about how biological processes underlie normal (and abnormal) behaviour and other psychological states and processes.

As research in and around biological psychology burgeons as never before, this new four-volume collection from Routledge s acclaimed Critical Concepts in...

The Netter Collection of Medical Illustrations: Nervous System, 2nd Edition provides a highly visual guide to the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral motor and sensory systems. These two spectacularly illustrated volumes in the masterwork known as the (CIBA) Netter -Green Books- have been expanded and revised by Drs. H. Royden Jones, Jr., Ted M. Burns, Michael J. Aminoff, and Scott L. Pomeroy to mirror the many exciting advances in medicine and imaging - offering rich insights into neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and the broad clinical spectrum of...

• the morphology and interrelationships between glial cells and neurones in different parts of the nervous systems
• the cellular physiology of the different kinds of glial cells
• the mechanisms of intra- and inter-cellular signalling in glial networks
• the mechanisms of glial-neuronal communications
• the role of glial cells in synaptic plasticity, neuronal survival and development of nervous...

• the morphology and interrelationships between glial cells and neurones in different parts of the nervous systems
• the cellular physiology of the different kinds of glial cells
• the mechanisms of intra- and inter-cellular signalling in glial networks
• the mechanisms of glial-neuronal communications
• the role of glial cells in synaptic plasticity, neuronal survival and development of nervous...

This book will compile a collection of chapters dedicated to varied aspects of PPPM in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. Among the topics to be covered are:
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Alcohol, cocaine, nicotine, and opiates have spurred some of the greatest human pleasure and pain across time. Providing information that ranges as widely as from ancient Egypt to modern times, this book comprehensively addresses the good, the bad, and the very ugliest aspects of these substances, examining their history, their effects on the brain and body, and on civilization itself. Frances R. Frankenburg, MD, employs accessible, everyday language to explain the neurology of addiction and describe how these "brain-robbing" substances work to hijack the brain's pleasure systems to create...