Edited by LIANG CHENG DAVID Y. ZHANG 2008 We have had the opportunity to witness both the beginning and the subsequent growth of an exciting specialty that combines both pathology and medical genetics, a field commonly referred to as molecular genetic pathology. The birth of this specialty took place in 1988 when Kari Mullis developed a new DNA amplification technology […]
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Uta Schambra 2008 This atlas is designed to support research in neuroscience, gene manipulation, molecular biology and neurotoxicology. For researchers unfamiliar with the developing mouse brain, full sections are shown to aid in the orientation and comparison to their own sections.
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Abraham Fisher l Maurizio Memo l Fabrizio Stocchi l Israel Hanin Editors 2008 Insights, Progress, and Perspectives The 7th International Congress on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease took place during March 9–13, 2005 high in the hills of Sorrento, Italy, overlooking the splendid blue Mediterranean Sea with Mt. Vesuvius in the foreground. This event continues to earn its growing […]
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Editors Birgit Lorenz François-Xavier Borruat 2008 Neuroophthalmology is one of the most interdisciplinary domains of ophthalmology. It encompasses disorders of both the afferent and efferent pathways whose etiologies may be genetic or acquired, e.g., metabolic, vascular, inflammatory, infectious, tumoral or paraneoplastic.
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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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Ruth H. Walker • Shinji Saiki • Adrian Danek Editors 2008 The differential diagnosis of a neurological patient presenting with chorea is difficult. Huntington disease (HD) is best known and can be readily established with genetic testing should clinical features not be clear.
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Edited by Patricio O’Donnell 2008 The genetics of schizophrenia have taken the driver seat in the research related to this disorder in recent years. For a long time, it had been known that sharing genes with someone affected with schizophrenia conferred a 50% chance of acquiring the disease.
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Martino Ruggieri Ignacio Pascual-Castroviejo Concezio Di Rocco (Eds.) 2008 Phakomatoses and Hamartoneoplastic Syndromes This book sees the light of day after more than 5-year “gestation”. The idea behind it originated in the early 2000’ and was originally inspired by the superb manual (published in 1987) by the late professor Manuel Rodriguez Gomez (Neurocutaneous Disorders. A Practical Approach. […]
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Avery A. Sandberg John F. Stone 2008 The Genetics and Molecular Biology of Neural Tumors is еssentially an analectic presentation of a rapidly developing field for which information is being generated at a remarkable rate. Nevertheless, we think that this book fills a void existing currently in the tumors under consideration.
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Fred Bunz 2008 Cancer is caused by genetic alterations. To understand the nature of these alterations – how they arise and how they are inherited – is to grasp the essence of cancer. In the past several years, hundreds of genes have been categorized as cancer genes. These genes, in turn, have illuminated basic pathways and regulatory networks […]
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