Published October, 2006
By Pak H. Chan, Abel Lajtha, Pak Chan and N.S. Abel Lajtha
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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It is the third leading cause of death and the most common cause of disability in most developed countries.Acute Ischemic Injury and Repair in the Nervous System is intended to provide the most up-to-date knowledge of the mechanisms of neuronal death and repair after stroke.

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Published October, 2006
By Stephen Lomber and Jos Eggermont
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The brains ability to adapt in the event of damage (cortical plasticity) is one of its remarkable characteristics. This book examines plasticity in a variety of systems, leading the reader through the complexities and promise of neuroplasticity, and presenting insights into current and future research and clinical practice.

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Published October, 2006
By David Milner and Mel Goodale
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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First published in 1995, The Visual Brain in Action remains a seminal publication in the cognitive sciences. For this new edition, a very substantial and illustrated epilogue has been added to the book in which Milner and Goodale review the key developments that support or challenge the views that were put forward in the first edition.

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Published October, 2006
By Peter A. Tass
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer Series in Synergetics
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This book presents a new theoretical approach to phase resetting and stimulation-induced synchronization and desynchronization in a population of oscillators. The author also proposes improvements to stimulation techniques as used by neurologists and neurosurgeons in the context of Parkinson's disease and MEG/EEG data analysis.

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Published October, 2006
By Sabine Bahn and Scott E. Hemby
Publisher: Elsevier (Elsevier Science Ltd)
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Combines the basic methodology of genomics and proteomics with the applications of such technologies in understanding psychiatric illnesses. This book offers an introduction of basic methodologies in genomics and proteomics and their integration in psychiatry, sections related to methods and application of the advancing technologies, and more.

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Published October, 2006
By Peter Schneider
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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This textbook introduces the astronomy of galaxies, their structure, their active galactic nuclei, their evolution and their large scale distribution. Starting with a detailed description of our Milky Way, the book examines the formation of structures and astronomical objects in the early universe.

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Published October, 2006
By Turgut Tatlisumak and Marc Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This major 2006 handbook covers every major methodology and disease model used in current neuroscience research. Delivering critical methodological information and describing small animal models for almost all major neurological diseases, this book forms an essential reference for students and researchers in all aspects of neuroscience.

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Published October, 2006
By John Schumann, Marianne Gullberg, Peter Indefrey and M Gullberg
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd))
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This volume explores the cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition from the perspectives of critical/sensitive periods, maturational effects, individual differences, neural regions involved, and processing characteristics.

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Published October, 2006
By Peter D Wagner, Robert C. Roach, Peter Hackett and Robert Roach
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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The 14th volume in the series will focus on cutting edge research at the interface of hypoxia and exercise. The work will cover the range from molecular mechanisms of muscle fatigue and muscle wasting to whole body exercise on the world's highest mountains.

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Published October, 2006
By Alexander Karczmar, V.P. Whittaker, N. Chauhan, A. Christopoulos, J. Lindstrom, George J. Siegel, Alexander G. Karczmar, V. P. Whittaker and G.J. Siegel
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Useful for those interested in cholinergic synaptic transmission, the central and peripheral cholinergic nervous systems, neuropharmacology, cholinergic brain function, human and animal behaviors including learning, aggression and self-awareness, anticholinesterases and war gases, and the associated neurological diseases and aging.

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