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Books in Neuroscience

Elsevier's Neuroscience collection empowers educators, researchers, and students with actionable knowledge to drive collaborative research and advancements in the field. Content covers the nervous system's intricate workings, covering branches like Affective, Behavioral, and Cognitive neuroscience to investigate the neural basis of emotions, behavior, and cognitive functions. Spanning from Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience to Developmental Neuroscience, content provides insights into brain function in health and disease.

  • Advances in the Study of Behavior

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 26
    • March 11, 1997
    • English
    Advances in the Study of Behavior continues to serve scientists across a wide spectrum of disciplines. Focusing on new theories and research developments with respect to behavioral ecology, evolutionary biology, and comparative psychology, these volumes foster cooperation and communication in these diverse fields.

  • Excitatory Amino Acids

    Clinical Results with Antagonists
    • 1st Edition
    • January 10, 1997
    • Paul L. Herrling
    • English
    Glutamate is the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain and dysfunction of glutamate transmission is the likely cause of a variety of diseases including neurodegeneration following cerebral ischemia, Huntington's chorea, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, epilepsy, spasticity, emesis, chronic pain, and schizophrenia. Excitatory amino acid receptor agonists and antagonists are therefore of major interest as potential drugs for central nervous system disorders. Excitatory Amino Acids is the first book entirely dedicated to the results of human testing of modulators of excitatory amino acid neurotransmitters.

  • An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing

    • 4th Edition
    • January 6, 1997
    • Brian C.J. Moore
    • English
    Now available in a Fourth Edition, Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing is the leading textbook in the field of auditory perception--also known as psychoacoustics. The book emphasizes the mechanisms underlying auditory perception and carefully explains key concepts. There are many illustrations--a large portion of which were produced especially for the book. The Fourth Edition has been thoroughly updated, with more than 150 references to articles and books published since 1990.Introductory chapters describe the basic physical concepts needed to understand the nature of auditory stimuli and the physiology of the auditory system, concentrating on the peripheral auditory system and particularly the inner ear (the cochlea). Later chapters cover auditory object perception, and extensively discuss the auditory systems ability to analyze a complex mixture of sounds in order to derive percepts corresponding to the individual sound sources. Also covered are speech perception, the basic auditory processes underlying speech perception, practical applications such as hearing aids and cochlear implants, the psychoacoustics of high-fidelity sound reproduction, and concert hall acoustics. The book includes an extensive list of references, glossary, and subject index.

  • Cholinergic Mechanisms: From Molecular Biology to Clinical Significance

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 109
    • December 18, 1996
    • J. Klein + 1 more
    • English
    This volume offers a comprehensive update and overview of the field of cholinergic transmission as presented by some thirty distinguished investigators who were recruited for their task from Germany, Great Britain, Canada, USA, Sweden, Israel, France and Italy. Exciting new discoveries, described in this volume, are due to recent methodological breakthroughs. These discoveries throw new light on many areas of cholinergic mechanisms.

  • Towards the Neurobiology of Chronic Pain

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 110
    • December 18, 1996
    • G. Carli + 1 more
    • English
    This excellent volume provides a well-balanced review of activity-dependent modifications of synaptic efficacy which follow noxious events, and is based on the symposium "Towards the Neurobiology of Chronic Pain", organized in Siena, at the Certosa di Pontignano. The book will contribute to the continuing interest in understanding pain reinforcement by the brain. This emerging new concept can in turn be expected to have a great impact on the development of clinical paradigms of pain prevention and rehabilitation.

  • The Polymodal Receptor - A Gateway to Pathological Pain

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 113
    • December 18, 1996
    • T. Kumazawa + 2 more
    • English
    This volume is derived from a celebration of the career of Professor Takao Kumazawa at Nagoya University and includes papers from investigators throughout the world whose contributions are dedicated to his honour. Topics range from current studies and reviews of the impact of modern molecular biology on the contemporary knowledge of polymodal receptors, to reflections related to the career and lifetime achievements of a pioneer neurophysiologist who has focused on relatively simple modal systems, especially those concerned with deep or visceral sensing mechanisms and their role in the broad behavioral spectrum constituting pain.

  • Chemical Factors in Neural Growth, Degeneration and Repair

    • 1st Edition
    • December 17, 1996
    • C. Bell
    • English
    This volume provides an up-to-date survey of current thinking concerning the actions of chemical factors in the regulation of neuronal behaviour under normal and pathological conditions. The book is divided into four sections, dealing with chemical factors involved with the formation of axon pathways, factors involved with neuronal survival and specialization during normal development, factors involved in normal maintenance and repair of adult neurons and, finally, factors that have been implicated as mediators of degenerative changes in neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders.

  • The Mouse Brain in Sterotaxic Coordinates

    • 1st Edition
    • December 16, 1996
    • Keith B.J. Franklin + 1 more
    • English
    The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates is the first atlas in more than 20 years to provide an up-do-date diagrammatic reference illustrating the coronal plates of the mouse brain. As in the renowned Academic Press publication, The Mouse Brain in Stereotaxic Coordinates, Second Edition, the stereotaxic accuracy of each section is ensured. The standard reference marks are repeated in each structure, and the atlas is sectioned with excellent symmetry. The large, easy-to-use format displays the sections alternately stained for Nissl substance and for acetylcholinestrase. Comprising 93 clearly reproduced images and corresponding diagrams, this atlas is a must reference in every lab.

  • Hypothalamic Integration of Circadian Rhythms

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 111
    • December 3, 1996
    • R.M. Buijs + 4 more
    • English
    The International Summer School of Brain Research, on which this book is based, was organized by the Netherlands Institute for Brain research (NIBR), which has a rich history dating back to the beginning of the century.The focus of interest in this present volume of Progress in Brain Research are the few thousand neurons at the base of the hypothalamus that form the biological clock. Attention is focused on the mechanisms underlying the generation of circadian rhythmicity within our biological clock, which is still far from understood. Contributions originating from many disciplines give updates on the latest theories on the molecular and electrophysiological basis of the pacemaker mechanism, and the various approaches used in different species. Attention is also paid to the way the signal of the biological clock is transferred to the rest of the central nervous system. New data on the role of the suprachiasmatic nucleus and its impact on the functioning of the human being is presented. Altogether an excellent volume which will further the understanding of this elusive material.

  • International Review of Neurobiology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 39
    • December 2, 1996
    • English
    Since 1959, International Review of Neurobiology has been a well known series appealing to neuroscientists, clinicians, psychologists, physiologists, and pharmacologists. This important serial is now being combined with Neuroscience Perspectives and Methods in Neurosciences. This combination results in a series that reaches a wider audience and publishes a greater number of thematic volumes.

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