Edited by Gajja S. Salomons and Markus Wyss 2007 To make a project a success, you typically need to have three things: a good idea, an enthusiastic team, and a committed ‘customer’ (in this case, the Springer publishing company). When J. Robin Harris, the Series Editor of Subcellular Biochemistry, first approached us with the idea of a book […]
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Colin J. Barrow and David H. Small (Eds) 2007 Celebrating a Century of Research The year 2006 is the centenary of Alois Alzheimer’s presentation to a meeting of German psychiatrists held in Tübingen, Germany. In 1906, Alzheimer described the results of his studies on a female patient known as Auguste D., who had suffered from a progressive […]
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Edited by Randall E. Harris 2007 In “Inflammation in the Pathogenesis of Chronic Diseases: The COX-2 Controversy”, a panel of leading experts chronicles the evidence supporting the role of inflammation in the pathogenesis of major chronic diseases and discusses the current controversy regarding beneficial versus adverse effects of selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors. Experts in multiple disciplines of medical research provide […]
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Serena M. Dudek Editor 2008 To the Nucleus and Back As you read the chapters of this book, neurons in your central nervous system are undergoing significant changes at the nuclear level. Thanks to these changes, you may see, understand, and retain (at least in part) what you are reading. One of these nuclear events, transcriptional regulation, is […]
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R. Nieuwenhuys J. Voogd C. van Huijzen 2008 The present edition of The Human Central Nervous System differs considerably from its predecessors. In previous editions, the text was essentially confined to a section dealing with the various functional systems of the brain.
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Editors Johannes W. Hell, Michael D. Ehlers 2008 The synapse is a fascinating structure for many reasons. Biologically, it is an exquisitely organized subcellular compartment that has a remarkable capacity for fidelity and endurance. Computationally, synapses play a central role in signal transmission and processing that represent evolution’s solution to learning and memory.
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Edited by Sean I. Savitz Daniel M. Rosenbaum 2008 During the past decade, the field of stroke has emerged from an era of therapeutic nihilism to a speciality that offers timely therapies to reperfuse the ischemic brain. While there has been limited success with thrombolytic agents for acute stroke, few patients receive these medications because of the narrow therapeutic […]
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Edited by Stefano Schiaffino Terence Partridge 2008 Barring misfortune, there is a general expectation that our skeletal muscles will remain in effective service for our allotted ‘three-score- years-and-ten’ (Psalm 90, king James Bible, 1611) despite daily exposure to a variety of traumatic insults. It is now clear that this maintenance entails efficient operation of appropriate repair processes.
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Fred Gage Yves Christen (Eds.) 2008 The human brain is remarkably complex, permitting sophisticated behavioural repertoires, such as languages, tool use, self-awareness, symbolic thought, cultural learning and consciousness. Each human being is different, due in part to the uniqueness of the neuronal heterogeneity and interconnections in our brains.
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Susan S. Adler Dominiek Beckers Math Buck 2008 An Illustrated Guide Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) is a philosophy and a concept of treatment. The PNF philosophy is timeless, and the concept is a continuous process of growth. This third edition of our book, with a complete review, better user-friendly layout and integration of the latest developments, aims to […]
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