Published November, 2010
By Albert H. Gjedde, William R. Bauer, Dean F. Wong, Albert Gjedde and Dean Wong
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book is divided in six major chapters covering compartmental analysis, kinetic analysis of transport and metabolism, blood-brain transfer and metabolism of glucose, amino acids, and oxygen, and amino acid metabolism and interaction of amino acid metabolites with receptors.

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Published November, 2010
By Thomas A. Reh and Ross L. Cagen
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Vision is our primary sensory modality and we are naturally curious as to how the visual system assembles. This volume includes: contributions from researchers who are active in identifying paradigms to explore; review of our state of knowledge; and, chapters written by authors with a generation approach.

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Published November, 2010
By Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, David K. Ryugo and Arthur Popper
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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Efferent sensory systems have emerged as major components of processing by the central nervous system. Whereas the afferent sensory systems bring environmental information into the brain, efferent systems function to monitor, sharpen, and attend selectively to certain stimuli while ignoring others.

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Published November, 2010
By Shin-Ho Chung, Olaf S. Anderson, Vikram Krishnamurthy and Vikram V. Krishnamurthy
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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This book deals with recent breakthroughs in ion-channel research that have been brought about by the combined effort of experimental biophysicists and computational physicists, who together are beginning to unravel the story of these exquisitely designed biomolecules.

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Published November, 2010
By Habib Zaidi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book provides a review of image analysis techniques as they are applied in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine.

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Published November, 2010
By Laszlo Zaborszky, Floris G. Wouterlood, J. L. Lanciego and José Luis Lanciego
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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A renaissance in fluorescence has occurred, driven by the development of new probes, new microscopes, live imagers, and computer processing. The introduction of new markers has enormously stimulated the field, moving it from tissue culture to neurophysiology to functional MRI techniques.

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Published November, 2010
By Richard R. Fay, Albert S. Feng and Peter M. Narins
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research
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This book is a compendium of the latest research on acoustic communication in these highly vocal vertebrates. This integrated approach provides a neuroethologically-driven and evolutionary basis for our understanding of acoustic communication and its underlying mechanisms.

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Published November, 2010
By Makoto Taketani and Michel Baudry
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Advances in Network Electrophysiology: Using Multi Electrode Arrays explores methods for using electrophysiological techniques for monitoring the concurrent activity of ensembles of single neurons.

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Published November, 2010
By Konrad Beyreuther, Mathias Jucker, Christian Haass and Roger M. Nitsch
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Research and Perspectives in Alzheimer's Disease
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Few medical or scientific addresses have so unmistakeably made history as the presentation delivered by Alois Alzheimer on November 4, 1906 in Tubingen. The celebratory event "Alzheimer 100 Years and Beyond" was organized through the Alzheimer community in Germany and worldwide, in collaboration with the Fondation Ipsen.

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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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This is an excellent introduction for graduate students and nonspecialists to the field of mathematical and computational neurosciences. The book approaches the subject via pulsed-coupled neural networks, which have at their core the lighthouse and integrate-and-fire models.

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