Published December, 2010
By Giuseppe Di Giovanni, Ennio Esposito and Vincenzo Di Matteo
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: The Receptors
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Part of Springer's "The Receptors," series, this text is the first ever overview on the research of 5-HT2c receptors. 5-HT2c is a prominent central serotonin receptor subtype widely expressed within the central and the peripheral nervous system and is thought to play a key role in the regulation of numerous behaviors.

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Published December, 2010
By Harry V. Vinters, Marcel M. Verbeek, Robert M.W.De Waal, M.M. Verbeek, R.M. Waal and R.M. de Waal
Publisher: Springer
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Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a distinctive abnormality of small cerebral blood vessels, one that has intrigued neuroscientists for decades.

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Published December, 2010
By Abel Lajtha, Naren L. Banik and N.S. Abel Lajtha
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Researchers seeking problems that offer more hope of success often avoid subjects that seem to be difficult to approach experimentally, or subjects for which experimental results are difficult to interpret.

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Published December, 2010
By Mahendra S. Rao, Marcus Jacobson and Scott Lipnick
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This consistent and well-illustrated text is an up-to-date survey of cellular and molecular events contributing to the assembly of the vertebrate nervous system. Chapters include a mixture of historical content and descriptions from literature that best illustrate specific aspects of development.

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Published December, 2010
By Peter Paul de Deyn and Debby van Dam
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Neuromethods
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With an ever-increasing elderly population and the resultant rising levels of dementia-related disorders, preclinical research based on animal models is pivotal to our knowledge of underlying molecular mechanisms and drug discovery aiming at the development of therapeutic strategies alleviating or preventing the neurological devastation.

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Published December, 2010
By Janet Treasure, J.B. Owen, D.A. Collier and J.L. Treasure
Publisher: Springer
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The book aims to review knowledge on the disorders of eating behaviour and body composition in some of the non-primate higher animals and to relate these to similar conditions in humans. These range from anorexia nervosa, at the other end of body composition to obesity, to others, such as bulimia, with more variable effects on body composition.

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Published December, 2010
By Manas K. Mandal, M.Barbara Bulman-Fleming, G. Tiwari, M.K. Mandal and M. B. Bulman-Fleming
Publisher: Springer
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`Rather than being an esoteric aspect of brain function, lateralization is a fundamental characteristic of the vertebrate brain essential to a broad range of neural and behavioral processes.' Professor Lesley J.

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Published December, 2010
By M. Malik
Publisher: Springer
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Following systematic development of technical aspects and physiological understanding, and clinical applicability of cardiac autonomic testing, this book provides a detailed guide to performing individual autonomic tests in both research and clinical settings.

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Published December, 2010
By S. Archer, M.B.A. Djamgoz, E. Loew, J. C. Partridge, S. Vallerga, M.B. Djamgoz and J.C. Partridge
Publisher: Springer
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John Lythgoe was one of the pioneers of the 'Ecology of Vision', a subject that he ably delineated in his classic and inspirational book published some 20 years ago [1].

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Published December, 2010
By Richard R. Fay, Fang-Gang Zeng and Fan-Gang Zeng
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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These and other auditory prostheses are discussed in the context of historical treatments, engineering, psychophysics and clinical issues as well as implications for speech, behavior, cognition and long-term effects on people.

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