Published March, 2013
By Abel Lajtha
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Life, either as we think of it in the abstract in its highest sense, or life, as we think of it in terms of a compact living organism, is obviously the result of complex interaction of all of the components of the organism.

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Published March, 2013
By Abel Lajtha
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If the reader's eventual goal is to derive the "laws" that relate various aspects of animal and human behavior to underlying physiological and biochemical function, these admirable volumes will help him to establish a firm biochemical base from which to operate.

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Published March, 2013
By Jose L. Pons, Diego Torricelli and Marta Pajaro
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Biosystems & Biorobotics
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Published March, 2013
By Philippe Huneman
Publisher: Springer
Series: Synthese Library
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This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins' papers in the 1970s.

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Published March, 2013
By Donald W. Pfaff and Yves Christen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Research and Perspectives in Endocrine Interactions
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Avoiding the hyperbole of past treatments of the subject, this book discusses maladies whose diagnoses are much different between males and females. Examples include autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders and congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

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Published March, 2013
By Nayef E. Saadé, Suhayl J. Jabbur and A. Vania Apkarian
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For those of us involved in research on the neural mechanisms that relate tissue damage to pain. The aim of this book is not to deal with acute pain that serves as an alarm signal, but to attempt to explain the molecular mechanisms of chronic pains considered as a multifactorial syndrome or disease.

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Published March, 2013
By Larry D. Reid
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This text is the written form of the proceedings of a satellite symposium associated with the 1988-meeting of the Society for Neu roscience. The symposium was sponsored by the Addictions Research Foundation, Toronto, Canada, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, U.

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Published March, 2013
By David E. Tupper and Evgenia D. Homskaya
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Plenum Series in Russian Neuropsychology
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This book - written by his long-standing colleague and published in Russian by Moscow University Press in 1992, fifteen years after his death - is the first serious volume from outside the Luria family devoted to his life and work and includes the most comprehensive bibliography available anywhere of Luria's writings.

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Published February, 2013
By Shihui Han, Ernst Poppel and Ernst Poeppel
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: On Thinking
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Cultural neuroscience combines brain imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and event-related brain potentials with methods of social and cultural psychology to investigate whether and how cultures influence the neural mechanisms of perception, attention, emotion, social cognition, and other human cognitive processes.

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Published February, 2013
By Paul Sanberg, Klaus-Peter Ossenkopp and Martin Kavaliers
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Neuroscience
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In Motor Activity and Movement Disorders thirteen state-of-the-art articles explicate forefront research methodologies for measuring and interpreting motor activity in animals, as well as their applications to preclinical and clinical research involving motor disorders.

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