Published November, 2010
By Richard R. Fay, Steven Greenberg and William A. Ainsworth
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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Although speech is the primary behavioral medium by which humans communicate, its auditory basis is poorly understood, having profound implications on efforts to ameliorate the behavioral consequences of hearing impairment and on the development of robust algorithms for computer speech recognition.

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Published November, 2010
By Tomás Paus and Philip David Zelazo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Psychology Press Ltd)
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This Special Issue showcases some of the latest and best research in an important emerging field, developmental social neuroscience, which is focussed on the nature and development of the neural mechanisms underlying socially relevant human behaviour.

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Published November, 2010
By Richard R. Fay, Ruth Anne Eatock and Ruth Eatock
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of compreh- sive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory - search. The volumes are aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical investigators.

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Published November, 2010
By Mathias Bahr
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Brain Repair, addresses all relevant issues underlying the mechanisms of brain damage, brain plasticity and post-traumatic reorganisation after CNS lesions.

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Published November, 2010
By Israel Hanin, Abraham Fisher, Maurizio Memo, F. Stocchi and Fabrizio Stocchi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Behavioral Biology
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This volume contains the proceedings of the 2005 ADPD conference and is unique in that it deals not only with issues related individually to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, but also with the integration of these and other related diseases.

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Published November, 2010
By Stephen W. Schaffer, Junichi Azuma and Takashi Ito
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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Moreover, there are a number of other putative functions of taurine less well known at present. This volume focuses on all aspects of taurine research from immunology and its effect on health to chemistry and biochemistry, including future clinical applications.

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Published November, 2010
By Dieter Wildenauer and Dieter B. Wildenauer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology
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It is generally accepted that neuropsychiatric disorders have a biological basis. For other neuropsychiatric disorders, in particular for schizophrenic and affective disorders, molecular causes appear to be more complex and therefore remain hypothetical, despite decades of research.

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Published November, 2010
By Peter H. George-Hyslop, William C. Mobley and Peter H. St.George-Hyslop
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer's Disease
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Many adult onset neurodegenerative diseases arise from the accumulation of misfolded peptides. This book examines the role sub-cellular trafficking pathways play in the pathological accumulation of these misfolded proteins and in attempts to clear them.

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Published November, 2010
By Hermann Haken
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer Series in Synergetics
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In the new chapter 13 it will be shown, however, that there is an important interplay between Shannon and semantic information and that, in particular, the latter plays a decisive role in the fixation of Shannon information and, in cognitive processes, al lows a drastic reduction of that information.

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Published November, 2010
By Uwe Lendeckel and Nigel M. Hooper
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Proteases in Biology and Disease
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