Published February, 2006
By Griffith Edwards, Roger Roffman, Robert S. Stephens, G. Alan Marlatt, G.Alan Marlatt and Robert Stephens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: International Research Monographs in the Addictions
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Cannabis dependence is controversial. Does it occur? What are the signs? How many people are affected? What are the health risks? Are there effective interventions? Have they been tested on adults and adolescents? Should we legalise, regulate or prohibit? This state-of-the-science review sets out to answer all those questions.

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Published February, 2006
By Tonmoy Sharma, Philip D. Harvey and Phil Harvey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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New developments in the basic and clinical neurosciences have lead to important advances in our understanding of the events that occur between conception and birth that can influence schizophrenia. This volume adopts a lifespan approach to understanding schizophrenia. It is a major addition to the psychiatry literature.

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Published February, 2006
By Tonmoy Sharma, Philip D. Harvey and Phil Harvey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Published February, 2006
By Ivan Soltesz
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Aims to provide insights into the striking degree of cellular diversity found in the interneuronal microcircuits in the brain's neocortex and hippocampus. This book elaborates on different ideas about interneuronal diversity that rest upon theoretical and experimental results and is useful for neuroscientists.

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Published February, 2006
By Semir Zeki, Oliver Goodenough and Oliver R. Goodenough
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Represents an attempt to address questions of law as reflecting brain activity, emphasizing that it is the organization and functioning of the brain that determines how we enact and obey laws. This work applies developments in brain science to debates over criminal responsibility, cooperation and punishment, deception, property, and more.

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Published February, 2006
By Leonidas Stefanis, J.N. Keller and J. N. Keller
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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One major factor that has been relatively obscure until recently has been the contribution of protein degradation to the regulation of the steady state level of protein expression and protein function.

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Published February, 2006
By Christopher Janson, During Matthew and Matthew During
Publisher: Springer (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers)
Series: Medical Intelligence Unit
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This volume is unique to the existing literature in the Peptide Nucleic Acid field, in that it focuses on comparing and contrasting PNA with other available oligonucleotide homologues and considers areas in which these biomolecules could be profitably applied to clinical and diagnostic applications.

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Published February, 2006
By Kato Nobumasa, Kawata Mitsuhiro, Roger K. Pitman, N. Kato, M. Kawata and R.K. Pitman
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Japan)
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This book breaks new ground by offering neuroscientific insights into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The authors - who range from skilled basic scientists to experienced diagnosticians and therapists - are leaders in the recent surge of biological investigation into this distressing and disabling condition.

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Published January, 2006
By Paul L. Nunez and Ramesh Srinivasan
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Widely acclaimed when it first published in 1981, this book has been brought up-to-date with this second edition. Topics covered include synaptic sources, electrode placement, choice of reference, volume conduction, power and coherence, projection of scalp potentials to dura surface, dynamic signatures of conscious experience, and neural networks immersed in global fields of synaptic action.

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Published January, 2006
By Nathan A. Fox and Peter J. Marshall
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Bringing together some of the leading thinkers on the development of positive affect, this book aims to create a different focus for affective neuroscience. The contributors present their research on the development of positive affect in child, nonhuman, and clinical population.

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