Conn's Translational Neuroscience

Conn's Translational Neuroscience provides a comprehensive overview reflecting the depth and breadth of the field of translational neuroscience, with input from a distinguished panel of basic and clinical investigators. Progress has continued in understanding the brain at the molecular, anatomic, and physiological levels in the years following the 'Decade of the Brain,' with the results providing insight into the underlying basis of many neurological disease processes.

This book alternates scientific and clinical chapters that explain the basic science underlying neurological processes and then relates that science to the understanding of neurological disorders and their treatment. Chapters cover disorders of the spinal cord, neuronal migration, the autonomic nervous system, the limbic system, ocular motility, and the basal ganglia, as well as demyelinating disorders, stroke, dementia and abnormalities of cognition, congenital chromosomal and genetic abnormalities, Parkinson's disease, nerve trauma, peripheral neuropathy, aphasias, sleep disorders, and myasthenia gravis.

In addition to concise summaries of the most recent biochemical, physiological, anatomical, and behavioral advances, the chapters summarize current findings on neuronal gene expression and protein synthesis at the molecular level. Authoritative and comprehensive, Conn's Translational Neuroscience provides a fully up-to-date and readily accessible guide to brain functions at the cellular and molecular level, as well as a clear demonstration of their emerging diagnostic and therapeutic importance.

• Provides a fully up-to-date and readily accessible guide to brain functions at the cellular and molecular level, while also clearly demonstrating their emerging diagnostic and therapeutic importance
• Features contributions from leading global basic and clinical investigators in the field
• Provides a great resource for researchers and practitioners interested in the basic science underlying neurological processes
• Relates and translates the current science to the understanding of neurological disorders and their treatment

Contenu

1. Cytology of the Central Nervous System 2. Ion Channels 3. Neurotransmitters and Neurotransmission in the Developing and Adult Nervous System 4. Synaptic Development 5. The Peripheral and Central Nervous System 6. The Blood-Brain Barrier: A Restricted Gateway to the Brain 7. Autoregulation of Cerebral Blood Flow 8. The Vestibular System 9. The Cerebellum 10. The Basal Ganglia 11. Choroid Plexus-Cerebrospinal Fluid Transport Dynamics: Support of Brain Health and a Role in Neurotherapeutics 12. The Cerebral Cortex 13. The Thalamus 14. Cranial Nerves and Brainstem 15. Hypothalamic-Pituitary Regulation 16. Neuroendocrinimmunology: A Primer 17. The Olfactory System 18. Intranasal Trigeminal Chemoreception 19. Vision 20. Oculomotor Systems and Control 21. A Modern Clinicopathological Approach to Traumatic Brain Injury 22. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder 23. Somatosensation and Pain 24. Neurogenesis as a Factor in the Functional Plasticity of the Nervous System 25. Axonal Degeneration and Regeneration in the Peripheral and Central Nervous Systems 26. Audition 27. Body Clocks in Health and Disease 28. The Experience of Consciousness 29. The Emotional Brain 30. Stress, Mood, and Pathways to Depression 31. Language Processing, Development and Evolution 32. Memory 33. Neurobiology of Drugs of Abuse