A guide to the biology of the brain and the systems that underlie behavior. It provides coverage of taste and smell, circadian rhythms, brain development, and developmental disorders and includes information on molecular mechanisms and functional brain imaging.

An illustrated textbook of neuroanatomy that aims to make clear the relevance of the anatomy to clinical neurology.

Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys--from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells--in the history of brain sciences.

A guide to computational modeling methods in neuroscience, covering a range of modeling scales from molecular reactions to large neural networks.

Presents an exploration of the evolution of brain based on the work in paleo-anthropology, brain anatomy and neuroimaging, molecular genetics, life history theory, and related fields. This book shows us the brain as a product of the contexts in which it evolved: phylogenetic, somatic, genetic, ecological, demographic, and cultural-linguistic.

An integrated textbook on the nervous system, covering both the basic science of the system and its major diseases.

The discipline of neurology emerged in the second half of the 19th Century. With it, chairs and departments of neurology, training programs, specialized journals, and new societies came into being. This book examines the prehistory of neurology, its emergence with as an independent discipline, and how it developed throughout the world.

Offers an overview of the medical, legal, and practical questions and decisions caregivers and families of Alzheimer's patients face. This handbook explains the disease, its warning signs, and its diagnosis, while providing information on care and treatment.

A Guide to the Assessment of Adaptive Functions. .

Stress is a universal phenomenon that impacts adversely on most people. This work covers interactions between stress and neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, as well as stress-immune-inflammatory interactions in relation to cancer and autoimmune and viral diseases.

Principles and Techniques. Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging fMRI has become a standard tool for mapping the working brains activation patterns, both in health and in disease. In this second edition, Richard Buxton provides an invaluable guide to how fMRI works, from introducing the basic ideas and principles to the underlying physics and physiology. 521581133

Part of the Blue Books of Neurology series, this book emphasizes pharmacologic treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS), an incurable inflammatory demyelinating disorder. It includes such topics as biomarkers, genomics, and surrogate outcomes in MS; pediatric MS; and, transverse myelitis.

Documents the advances in contemporary brain research. This book focuses on coma and consciousness science. It provides a review of the various aspects of coma science from a review of the concepts, questioning of advances, case studies, through to where research in the field is heading.

Describes the terminology in the field of neurolinguistics, the science concerned with the neural mechanisms underlying the comprehension, production and abstract knowledge of spoken, signed or written language. This title is suitable for scientists working with language and the brain. It contains approximately 165 articles.

Presents empirical advances using neuroscience techniques to investigate how culture influences neural processes underlying a wide range of human abilities, from perception and scene processing to memory and social cognition. This book also highlights the theoretical and methodological issues with conducting cultural neuroscience research.

Intracranial hypertension (ICH) is the most common cause of clinical deterioration and death for neurological and neurosurgical patients. There are a lot of causes of raised intracranial pressure (ICP) and increased ICP can produce intracranial hypertension syndromes.

Covers the 2008 Spectrum Conference that focuses on neurobehavioral disorders and the influence of genetics in particular. This book examines behavioral and psychological phenotypes in specific neurobehavioral disorders including Down Syndrome, Fragile X, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Smith Magenis Syndrome, and Williams Syndrome.

Neural Tube Defects are a group of related but individual pathologies that are the most common congenital anomalies of the Central Nervous System. This book encompasses etiology, molecular biology, clinical anatomy, symptoms, rationale for surgical procedures, natural history and transition into adulthood.

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Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of death in young people in the UK and USA. As clinicians, what happens during the first hours and days after injury can have a huge influence on the patient's chance of survival and also their quality of life after the injury.