Published October, 2010
By Sangeeta N. Bhatia, Jerome Schultz, Milan Mrksich, David J. Brady, Antionio J. Ricco, David R. Walt and Charles L. Wilkins
Publisher: Springer
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Indeed, the scientific and engineering leadership of the United States and its allies in the twentieth century played key roles in the successful outcomes of both World War II and the Cold War, sparing the world the twin horrors of fascism and totalitarian communism, and fueling the economic prosperity that followed.

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Published October, 2010
By Michael S. Ritsner and A. George Awad
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A fascinating and worthy text that presents new insights into a hugely important area of mental health. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) impairment is a core domain of prevalent mental disorders such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective, mood and anxiety disorders.

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Published October, 2010
By Paul S. Agutter, Denys N. Wheatley and Paul Agutter
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This book uses modern biological knowledge to tackle the question of what distinguishes living organisms from the non-living world. The authors first draw on recent advances in cell and molecular biology to develop an account of the living state that applies to all organisms (and only to organisms).

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Published October, 2010
By Richard F. Keep, Ya Hua, Guohua Xi and Julian T. Hoff
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
Series: Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement
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This volume contains 93 papers from internationally recognized experts in the field of brain edema and brain injury. The papers include human and animal studies on edema following stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and hydrocephalus.

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Published October, 2010
By Damianos E. Sakas, Brian A. Simpson, Elliot S. Krames and Brian Simpson
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag GmbH)
Series: Acta Neurochirurgica Supplement
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It describes techniques and procedures applied in internal contact with non-neural tissues surrounding the nervous system (dura or cerebrospinal fluid), as in the case of epidural stimulation for pain or intrathecal drug application for the treatment of spasticity and pain.

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Published October, 2010
By Risto Miikkulainen, James Bednar, Yoonsuck Choe, Joseph Sirosh and James A. Bednar
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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For more than 30 years, the visual cortex has been the source of new theories and ideas about how the brain processes information. Understanding the computations in the visual cortex is therefore an important step toward a general theory of computational brain theory.

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Published October, 2010
By Francisco Aboitiz and Diego Cosmelli
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Attention is a key psychological construct in the understanding of human cognition, and the target of enormous efforts to elucidate its physiological mechanisms, as the wealth of literature-both primary and secondary-attests (for recent compilations see Itti, Rees, & Tsotsos, 2005;

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Published October, 2010
By Ruth H. Walker, Shinji Saiki, Adrian Danek, M. Hallett, Ginger Irvine and Glenn Irvine
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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The latest research regarding the neurodegenerative conditions known as neuroacanthocytosis will be found in this book. In vitro studies have identified potential protein interactions, and work on erythrocyte membranes suggests mechanisms for the generation of acanthocytes.

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Published October, 2010
By Birger Kollmeier, Georg Klump, Volker Hohmann, Ulrike Langemann, Manfred Mauermann, Stefan Uppenkamp, Jesko Verhey, B. Kollmeier, G. Klump, V. Hohmann, U. Langemann, M. Mauermann, S. Uppenkamp and J. Verhey
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Hearing - From Sensory Processing to Perception presents the papers of the latest "International Symposium on Hearing," a meeting held every three years focusing on psychoacoustics and the research of the physiological mechanisms underlying auditory perception.

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Published October, 2010
By Ken Ashwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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As early as 1836, Charles Darwin recognised that Australian marsupials and monotremes represented a 'second creation' with parallel adaptations to those seen among mammals elsewhere. This book explores the structure and function of the 'marsupial' brain and its evolution in the context of the changing Australian environment.

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