Published November, 2012
By Bruno Apolloni and Franz Kurfess
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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One high-level ability of the human brain is to understand what it has learned. At present we are technologically almost ready to artificially reproduce human brain tissue, but we still do not fully understand the information processing and the related biological mechanisms underlying this ability.

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Published November, 2012
By Colin Watts
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
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Having been a fairly dormant specialty for many decades, in recent years there has been a remarkable increase in activity in Neuro-oncology from basic science through to the clinics. The book moves from concepts in the scientific basis of neuro-oncology, through to modelling techniques and finishing on the translation into clinical practice.

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Published November, 2012
By Mehmet Eskin
Publisher: Elsevier (Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc)
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Published November, 2012
By Wen-Quan Zou and Pierluigi Gambetti
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Volume II covers the etiology, pathogenesis, classification, histopathological and clinical aspects of animal and human prion diseases, including decontamination of prions and development of therapeutics for prion diseases, such as immunomodulation.

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Published November, 2012
By Ian S. Zagon and Patricia J. McLaughlin
Publisher: Springer
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Receptors for cell hormones, growth factors, Fourth, alterations in the development of neu and neurotransmitters are involved in the ral receptors may have profound implications control and modulation of an enormous array for the structure and function of the of biological processes.

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Published November, 2012
By Paolo Dario, Giulio Sandini and Patrick Aebischer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Nato ASI Subseries F:
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Bionics evolved in the 1960s as a framework to pursue thedevelopment of artificial systems based on the study ofbiological systems.

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Published November, 2012
By Erwin-Josef Speckmann, Speckmann, Wolfgang Haschke and Haschke
Publisher: Springer (Birkhauser Boston Inc)
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Scientists from European countries participated in an interdisciplinary symposium in the summer of 1990, July 2 to 6, at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, which covered the field of slow brain potentials from the psychophysiological to the cellular level, including glial cells and microenvironment.

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Published November, 2012
By Akitoshi Hanazawa, Keiichi Horio and Tsutom Miki
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence
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"Brain-inspired information technology" is one of key concepts for the development of information technology in the next generation. Brain-inspired information technology is aiming to realize such nature-made information processing system by using present computer system or specific hardware.

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Published November, 2012
By Giuseppe Di Giovanni and Vincenzo Di Matteo
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Neuromethods
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Since its first application, microdialysis has become incredibly popular to study brain function and has been applied with success in different fields from psychopharmacology, neurobiology, and physiology in animals and also humans.

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Published November, 2012
By Gerhard von der Emde, Joachim Mogdans and B.G. Kapoor
Publisher: Springer
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In this book, examples of adaptation and refinement are given for six sensory systems: The visual system, The auditory system, The olfactory system, The mechanosensory lateral line system, The taste system, The electrosensory system.

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