Jaime A. Pineda Editor 2009 The Role of Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition The aim of this book is to bring together social scientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, neuropsychologists and others to promote a dialogue about the variety of processes involved in social cognition, as well as the relevance of mirroring neural systems to those processes. Social cognition […]
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David W. McCandless Editor 2009 The last several years have seen a burgeoning of technical advances in areas of medicine such as imaging and diagnosis, and this trend is sure to continue. These developments have special significance in areas such as internal medicine, neurology, and radiology. The further realization that early diagnosis of disorders which have a biochemical (metabolic) […]
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Damir Janigro Editor 2009 Nearly a decade after completion of the first draft of the entire Human Genome sequence we are in a better position to assess the nature and the consequences of that heroic achievement, which can be seen as the culmination of the molecular biological revolution of the second half of the twentieth century. The achievement itself […]
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Akhlaq A. Farooqui 2009 The backbone of neural membranes is the lipid bilayer, which is composed of glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, and cholesterol. Embedded in the lipid bilayer are proteins of various shapes, sizes, and traits. The intricate interactions among glycerophospholipids, sphingolipids, cholesterol, and proteins provide neural membranes with delicate, dynamic, and stable shape responsible for numerous neural membrane activities.
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K Ray Chaudhuri William G Ondo 2009 Movement disorders are a complex group of disorders spanning all aspects of neurological illnesses and range from conditions characterized by too little movement (hypokinesis) to those where movement is excessive (hyperkinesis). The classic example would be Parkinson’s disease, while other movement-related problems, such as tremor, chorea, dystonia, myoclonus, hemiballism and tics, occur in […]
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Edited by Kim A. Neve 2009 New Opportunities for Drug Discovery Functional selectivity refers to the observation that different ligands acting at one subtype of receptor that couples to multiple signaling pathways can vary in their ability to activate the signaling pathways; that is, one drug can be an agonist at pathway A and an antagonist or partial […]
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Alain Destexhe l Thierry Bal Editors 2009 From Principles to Applications This book intends to provide an overview of different approaches using the ‘‘dynamic-clamp’’ technique. This technique was introduced many years ago (see ‘‘Introduction’’ for an historical perspective) and enables one to inject artificially generated conductances in living neurons.
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Ricardo B. Maccioni • George Perry Editors 2009 Almost four decades of increasingly faster and more intensive research on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have brought major advances in our understanding of its pathogenesis, improved tools for diagnosis, and strategies for its treatment. This research has shown us that exploring the factors leading to cognitive impairment is mired with elusive goals […]
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Kuei-Yuan Tseng Editor 2009
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Jose Luis Perez Velazquez · Richard Wennberg Editors 2009 Measurements and Relevance to Brain Function and Behavior It is reasonable to say that the ultimate goal of neuroscience is to understand how nervous systems, and brains in particular, process information. Whether it be a nematode or a primate nervous system, the foundation of information processing lies in the […]
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