Sarah L. Pallas Editor 2010 This book was conceived at Watershed Restaurant in Decatur, GA, after a symposium on the topic organized by myself and Pete Wenner for the 2006 Society for Neuroscience meeting in Atlanta (Pallas et al. 2006 ). Our compliments to Chef Scott Peacock!

Ray Meddis ● Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda Richard R. Fay ● Arthur N. Popper Editors 2010 Models have always been a special feature of hearing research. The particular models described in this book are special because they seek to bridge the gap between physiology and psychophysics and ask how the psychology of hearing can be understood in terms of […]

Donald W. Lewis 2010 Migraine is chronic, progressive, debilitating disorder impacting the lives of millions of individuals. The origins of the disability can be traced into childhood and adolescence for the majority adult migraine sufferers [1].

David W. Self l Julie K. Staley Editors 2010 Drug addiction is a chronically relapsing mental illness involving severe motivational disturbances and loss of behavioral control leading to personal devastation. The disorder afflicts millions of people, often co-occurring with other mental illnesses with enormous social and economic costs to society.

Neal R. Swerdlow Editor 2010 The Developing Field of Schizophrenia Research There are developmental milestones in the life of a disorder – the moments that it is defined (or redefined) at a diagnostic level, the moments that it is understood (or better understood) at a scientific level, and the moments that it is effectively treated (or more effectively […]

Wagner F. Gattaz • Geraldo Busatto Editors 2010 Schizophrenia remains a mighty challenge to psychiatry, with its causes and under- lying brain mechanisms yet to be fully uncovered. Currently available treatments are neither universally effective nor without unwanted effects.    

Denson G. Fujikawa Editor 2010 The Role of Excitotoxic Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms

Jan Dirk Blom 2010 Our history is full of the reports of visionaries, prophets, and other figures who derived their insights and authority from what we would now call hallucinations. As these reports testify, individuals who knew how to deploy them convincingly for some noble cause were often rewarded with a high social status.

CP Panayiotopoulos 2010 It is rewarding that the second edition of A Clinical Guide to Epileptic Syndromes and their Treatment published in 2007 appears to be fulfilling its purpose as a concise book promoting the accurate diagnosis and appropriate management of epilepsies.

Jack W. Tsao Editor 2012 Traumatic Brain Injury: A Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis, Management, and Rehabilitation was written to enable medical professionals to quickly learn about the latest issues and treatments in this evolving clinical field.