Neurosciences

From one of the worlds leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the brain drives the evolution of beauty in animals and...

Cavernous malformations can lead to significant neurologic symptoms - from nerve pain, weakness and coordination difficulties to visual loss, memor...

Everything we think, do and refrain from doing is determined by our brain. From religion to sexuality, it shapes our potential, our desires and our...

'Pain is bad, right? In this fascinating book, Brock Bastian will convince you otherwise. Drawing on both vivid everyday examples and surprising ...

From one of the world's leading authorities on animal behavior, the astonishing story of how the female brain drives the evolution of beauty in ani...

The Handbook of Neurotoxicity is a reference source for identifying, characterizing, instructing on use, and describing outcomes of neurotoxin trea...

Theory of mind (ToM) is defined as ability to understand mental states of others. ToM has been hypothesised to be a universal ability. However, sev...

Neuroimaging has had an enormous impact on the way human cognition is studied in vivo. With the advent of fMRI, scientists have been able to ask qu...

The sciatic nerve is the longest and widest single nerve in the human body. This new book presents current research in the study of the sciatic ner...

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Survival infants with congenital heart disease (CHD) are at significant risk for neurod...

This book presents original research results on the leading edge of neuroscience research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt t...

Sleep deprivation is a sufficient lack of restorative sleep over a cumulative period so as to cause physical or psychiatric symptoms and affect rou...

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

Since 2003, neuroscience and quantum physics have been growing together by examining two main topics under NeuroQuantology. One of these is the mea...

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

Want to read just one book about autism? Read this. Written by Temple Grandin, one of the world's most accomplished and well-known adults with auti...

This book provides readers with the latest developments in neuroscience research. Chapter One presents nonlinear features of EEG changes during aud...

Why is it that the behaviour of teenagers can be so odd? As they grow older, young children steadily improve their sense of how to behave, and then...

This book examines the latest research in brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in Huntington''''s Disease, in the treatment of diminished gluta...

This book is devoted to the study of physiological properties of a living axoplasm, which, as it turns out, is hardly studied as a single organ. Th...

Memory could be conceptualised as the capability to encode, store and retrieve information to guide behavior. Memory may be stored in different man...

This book explores the psychophysical studies of colour perception in both animals and man help to understand these complex processes. Finally, col...

Astrocytes, the most prevalent type of cell found in the brain, are glial cells that play a critical role in the support and maintenance of homeost...

Where does creativity come from? Why are some people more creative than others?Eminent neuropsychologist Christine Temple navigates a wide range o...

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

Even if you've never seen a zombie movie or television show, you could identify an undead ghoul if you saw one. With their endless wandering, lumbe...

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

The purpose of this book is to focus on breakthroughs in translational neuroscience and bio-behavioural research. This book is divided into three s...

Excitotoxicity is the pathological process in which neurons are damaged and killed by over-stimulation of the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate...

'I must remember tomorrow to make an appointment at the doctors' or 'I must send my cousin a birthday congratulations message on Tuesday' are two e...

Memory impairment due to aging and various memory disorders represent a great medical challenge to our society. Since the publication of the fifth ...

Several studies have shown the presence of increased values of S100B in samples from patients with degenerative central nervous system (CNS) disord...

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

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. Nevertheless, it is c...

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

Increasing evidence indicates that inflammatory cells and immunological cytokines can enter into the brain and modulate a number of biological and ...

Synaptic plasticity is the ability of the connection, or synapse, between two neurons to change in strength in response to either use or disuse of ...

A dendritic spine (or spine) is a small membranous protrusion from a neuron''''s dendrite that typically receives input from a single synapse of an...

With the single-nerve fiber action potential recording method and the single-motor unit electromyography, the functioning of the human central nerv...

This monograph serves as an in-depth guide to the use of the innovative combination of Bayesian analysis, artificial neural networks and fuzzy logi...

In many ways, it is the best of times and the worst of times for the field of psychiatry. New discoveries in neuroscience are leading us to a bet...

The catecholaminergic system is one of the most studied neurotransmitter systems in the central nervous system. Since the original studies of Dahls...

The primary cortical areas that we include under the umbrella of limbic system include the olfactory cortex, amygdala and hippocampal formation, an...

Tinnitus is a benign condition, which can nonetheless have upsetting consequences for the patients. Understanding the physiopathologic mechanisms u...

This book provides readers with the latest developments in neuroscience research. Topics covered include patient and nerve selection, review techni...

Michio Kaku, the international bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible, gives us a stunning and provocative vision of the future of the min...