Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology

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____________________________ A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York ...

This is a clinically oriented book, particularly for physical therapists, students and other health professionals. The book focuses on the use of p...

This book highlights the role of some metals which induce oxidative stress and imbalances in the neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disea...

This book contains research related to mental illnesses, particularly bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. This includes information on symptoms, ho...

Neurochemistry is the specific study of neurochemicals, which include neurotransmitters and other molecules such as neuro-active drugs that influen...

This compilation presents original study results on the leading edge of neuroscience research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attem...

When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now ab...

This book summarises recent knowledge about the immune, inflammatory, endocrine and neuronal networks. The pathomechanisms of hypertrophy in cardio...

Through time, an organism gains the ability to actively control purpose and then transform it into inventiveness. With this transformation, the psy...

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) plays a crucial role in the maintenance of homeostasis. From this aspect, a thorough knowledge of the ANS is imp...

Huntington''''s disease, chorea or disorder (HD) is an incurable neurodegenerative genetic disorder, which affects muscle co-ordination and some co...

In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound, being cared for at ...

Emotion is among the most relevant factors of human life, and it exerts a deep influence on all aspects of our lives and behaviour. However, little...

This book presents current research in the study of the mechanisms, types and disorders of long-term memory. Topics included in this compilation in...

Neuropathic pain (NP) affects large populations worldwide determining increased direct and indirect costs and significantly alters the patients''''...

Jason Padgett was an ordinary, not terribly bright, 41-year-old working in his father's furniture shop when he was the victim of a brutal mugging o...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig''''s disease is an adult-onset fatal neurodegenerative disease characterised by progressive apopt...

Parkinson''''s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder and is caused by degeneration and dysfunction of dopaminergic neur...

Ischemic stroke (IS) is due to the sudden occlusion of a cerebral artery with the consequence of a critical reduction in cerebral blood flow in a l...

Dizziness is one of the most frequent complaints in a medical office, for both primary and specialised care, and continues to be a challenge to cli...