Published October, 2008
By Michael Oddy and Andrew Worthington
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Executive disorders represent the most common and most troubling consequence of brain injury and are notoriously difficult to assess, understand and rehabilitate.This book provides a concise and accessible review of best practice in the rehabilitation of these disorders, covering a wide range of approaches.

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Published October, 2008
By Maria Marinaro, Silvia Scarpetta and Yoko Yamaguchi
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Suitable for graduate students and researchers with different scientific backgrounds who wish to learn brain science beyond the boundary of their fields. This volume presents 12 tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the 12th International Summer School on Neural Networks in Erice, Italy, in December 2008.

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Published October, 2008
By Fahmeed Hyder and Hyder Fahmeed
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then dynamic images of brain activity certainly warrant many, many more. the ?rst one contains a brief pre- ble to dynamic brain imaging and the other presents a novel, analytical approach to processing of dynamically acquired data.

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Published October, 2008
By Chris W. Turck and Chris Turck
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This edited volume examines biomarker research in the field of psychiatry. It not only addresses the area of affective disorders but also other brain disorders that are neurological in nature, including Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer's Disease.

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Published October, 2008
By Douglas W. Zochodne, Douglas Zochodne and Ahmet Hoke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Doug Zochodne summarises an important, but neglected, area of neuroscience, addressing the peripheral, rather than the central, nervous system and its unique neurobiology. Heavily illustrated throughout, and including a 32 page colour plate section, this book will serve as a valuable reference for academic researchers and graduate students.

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Published October, 2008
By Carol Shoshkes Reiss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Neurotropic viruses infect the brain, often causing lethal disease in people. This book details these individual viruses, the diseases they cause, how they spread, their detection and treatment, and their prevention. There is also discussion of the beneficial uses of these neurotropic viruses for gene therapy and tumor lysis.

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Published October, 2008
By Martin Davies and Lawrence Weiskrantz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The 'Frontiers of Consciousness' is a truly interdisciplinary volume on consciousness, one which tackles some of the biggest and most impenetrable problems in the field. Distinctive in its accessibility, authority, and its depth of coverage, the book is a groundbreaking and influential addition to the consciousness literature.

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Published October, 2008
By Andrew Zimmerman and Andrew W. Zimmerman
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Current Clinical Neurology
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Creative thinking and collaborative scientific research have advanced our understanding of autism, and we are now beginning to synthesize the data into evidence and theories. Autism: Current Theories and Evidence presents current theories about autism and the evidence that supports them.

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Published October, 2008
By Nobutaka Hirokawa, Uwe Windhorst, Marc D. Binder and Martin C. Hirsch
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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In addition, expert editors contribute detailed introductory chapters to each of 43 topic fields ranging from the fundamentals of neuroscience to fascinating developments in the new, inter-disciplinary fields of Computational Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy.

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Published October, 2008
By John H. Zhang, Jun Chen, Xiao-Ming Xu and Zao C. Xu
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
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Contributed by top experts and many original developers of the models, each chapter contains a step-by-step, proven procedure and visual aids covering the most commonly used animal models of neurological injury in order to highlight the practical applications of animal models rather than the theoretical issues.

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