Published July, 2009
By Michael Hortsch and Hisashi Umemori
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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As synapses present specialized cellular junctions between neurons and their target cells, it may not come as a surprise that neural cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) are of special importance for the genesis and the maintenance of synaptic connections.

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Published July, 2009
By Sean Spence and Sean A. Spence
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Is free will just an illusion? What is it in the brain that allows us to pursue our own actions and objectives? What is it about this organ that permits seemingly purposeful behaviour, giving us the impression we are free? This book takes a journey into the brain to examine what is about known voluntary behaviour, and why it can go wrong.

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Published July, 2009
By David Nutt, Carmine Pariante, Randolph M. Nesse, Lewis Wolpert and Randolph Nesse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Depression is a major cause of morbidity and a significant public health problem. This book brings together world leaders in research on depression to discuss both classical and innovative ideas for understanding this devastating disorder. It includes cutting edge research from neurobiology, psychology, genetics, and evolutionary biology.

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Published July, 2009
By David Zhou and Elias Greenbaum
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering
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This book, Implantable Neural Prostheses 1: Devices and Applications,ispart one of a two-book series and describes state-of-the-art advances in techniques associated with implantable neural prosthetic devices and their applications.

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Published June, 2009
By Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Richard P. Wennberg and Richard Wennberg
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience
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Increasing interest in the study of coordinated activity of brain cell ensembles reflects the current conceptualization of brain information processing and cognition.

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Published June, 2009
By Dennis A. Nowak, Joachim Hermsdorfer and Joachim Hermsdoerfer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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To understand and appreciate how the human brain controls movements of the hand, it is important to investigate both the healthy motor behaviour and dysfunction during everyday manipulative tasks. This book provides a contemporary summary of the physiology and pathophysiology of the manipulative and exploratory functions of the human hand.

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Published June, 2009
By Sigrid C. Veasey
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience
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Dr. Stadtman broke the ground for a new field of study to discover how oxidative stress contributes in significant ways to age-related cellular dysfunction and protein accumulation and that oxidation in the aging brain influences Alzheimer's disease, ischemia-reperfusion injury, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and lifespan [4-6].

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Published June, 2009
By John Spencer
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published June, 2009
By Hong Wei Dong and The Allen Institute for Brain Science
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley-Blackwell)
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Offers users with a compiled collection of information from the web-based "Allen Brain Atlas", the online mouse brain anatomical atlas and gene expression database. This title is suitable for neuro-scientists, molecular biologists, genomicists, genomics researchers, informaticians, and informatics researchers.

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Published June, 2009
By Aapo Hyvarinen, Jarmo Hurri and Patrick O. Hoyer
Publisher: Springer (Springer London Ltd)
Series: Computational Imaging and Vision
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Aims and Scope This book is both an introductory textbook and a research monograph on modeling the statistical structure of natural images. Another motivation for natural image statistics research is in computer science and engineering, where it helps in development of better image processing and computer vision methods.

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