Pascal Belin  Salvatore Campanella Thomas Ethofer Editors 2013 Most of our social interactions involve combining information from both the face and voice of other persons: speech information, and also crucial nonverbal information on a person’s identity and affective state. The cerebral bases of the multimodal integration of speech have been intensively investigated; by contrast, only a few studies […]

Jeffrey M. Gidday  Miguel A. Perez-Pinzon John H. Zhang Editors 2013 Translational Neuroprotection by Pre- and Post-Conditioning The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advances in our molecular understanding of how brain cells die after stroke, brain injury, and neurodegeneration. Yet a clinically effective neuroprotectant remains elusive. Perhaps, a gentle paradigm shift may be required. CNS disease comprises […]

Rhonda J. Moore Editor 2013 Biobehavioral Approaches for the Life Course “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” Julius Caesar 75 BCE “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”Unknown In his Foreword to the first edition of Pain and the Neurosurgeon in 1955, […]

David D. Franks • Jonathan H. Turner Editors 2013 In the late 1990s, I was asked by the Editor of the Annual Review of Sociology , Karen Cook, to write a short essay for the millennial issue of that journal in which I would re fl ect on “what I don’t know about my fi eld but […]

Mandy L. Corrigan ● Arlene A. Escuro Donald F. Kirby Editors 2013 Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death in America and the second-leading cause of death worldwide. It occurs more often in women than men, with African Americans having almost twice the risk of fi rst-ever stroke compared with Caucasians. Stroke is a leading cause of […]